how to add Replicate api key?

Question

i´m trying to use Replicate to run some neural networks in the cloud but it yields this error message:

ReplicateError: No API token provided. You need to set the REPLICATE_API_TOKEN environment variable or create a client with `replicate.Client(api_token=...)`.

You can find your API key on https://replicate.com

and python also can´t find it with the command

print(os.environ.get("REPLICATE_API_TOKEN"))

i already tried passing it using sysdm.cpl and it still doesnt work. How do I set it as an environmental variable?

Mispleading

i already did exactly that and tried setting it in 2 different ways. stackoverflow is my last resort!!! – Mispleading

Answer 1

You can set the API key using Python:

import os
import replicate

# Set the REPLICATE_API_TOKEN environment variable
os.environ["REPLICATE_API_TOKEN"] = "your_api_token_here"

However, this sets the variable value globally, making it accessible to other users of the same environment, and other Python modules. It's generally not a good practice to change environment variables from the code, but rather set them outside of the interpreter environment and use within.

Vlf

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue when trying to run Llama. Here is my solution:

os.environ["REPLICATE_API_TOKEN"] = "TOKEN"
api = replicate.Client(api_token=os.environ["REPLICATE_API_TOKEN"])
output = api.run(
    "meta/llama-2-70b-chat:02e509c789964a7ea8736978a43525956ef40397be9033abf9fd2badfe68c9e3",
        input={"prompt": prompt}
    )
for item in output:
    print(item, end="")

Santa

Many thanks! This really saved the day for me! – Figured

Answer 3

Was also getting an auth issue. This is what worked - replicate = replicate.Client(api_token='')

Scissel

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Answer 4

This is what worked for me:

from replicate.client import Client

replicate = Client(api_token="<your_token>")

(Note the difference; it is replicate.client.Client)

Source: https://github.com/replicate/replicate-python/issues/58

Arvie

Answer 5

You can also set environment variables via terminal. In powershell it would be:

$env:VARIABLE_NAME='VARIABLE_VALUE'

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