chatGPT-shell-cli

A simple, lightweight shell script to use OpenAI's chatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal without installing python or node.js. The script uses the completions endpoint and the text-davinci-003 model for chatGPT and the images/generations endpoint for generating images.

Features

• Chat with GPT from the terminal
• Generate images from a text prompt
• View your chat history
• Chat context, GPT remembers previous chat questions and answers
• List all available OpenAI models
• Set OpenAI request parameters

Getting Started

Prerequisites

This script relies on curl for the requests to the api and jq to parse the json response.

• curl

  brew install curl

• jq

  brew install jq

• An OpenAI API key. Create an account and get a free API Key at OpenAI

Installation

To install, run this in your terminal and provide your OpenAI API key when asked.

curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xacx/chatGPT-shell-cli/main/install.sh | sudo -E bash

Manual Installation

If you want to install it manually, all you have to do is:

• Download the chatgpt.sh file in a directory you want
• Add the path of chatgpt.sh to your $PATH. You do that by adding this line to your shell profile: export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/chatgpt.sh
• Add the OpenAI API key to your shell profile by adding this line export OPENAI_KEY=your_key_here
• If you are using iTerm and want to view images in terminal, install imgcat

Usage

Start

• Run the script by using the chatgpt command anywhere

Commands

• image: To generate images, start a prompt with image: If you are using iTerm, you can view the image directly in the terminal. Otherwise the script will ask to open the image in your browser.
• history To view your chat history, type history
• models To get a list of the models available at OpenAI API, type models
• model: To view all the information on a specific model, start a prompt with model: and the model id as it appears in the list of models. For example: model:text-babbage:001 will get you all the fields for text-babbage:001 model

Chat context

• You can enable chat context mode for the model to remember your previous chat questions and answers. This way you can ask follow-up questions. To enable this mode start the script with -c or --chat-context. i.e. chatgpt --chat-context and start to chat normally.

Set request parameters

• To set request parameters you can start the script like this: chatgpt --temperature 0.9 --model text-babbage:001 --max-tokens 100 --size 1024x1024

  The available parameters are:

  • temperature, -t or --temperature
  • model, -m or --model
  • max number of tokens, --max-tokens
  • image size, -s or --size (The sizes that are accepted by the OpenAI API are 256x256, 512x512, 1024x1024)

  To learn more about these parameters you can view the API documentation