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OpenAI Chat

Send the selected text to OpenAI's Chat API.
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OpenAI Chat

A PopClip extension to interact with OpenAI's Chat API.

Note: Requires pre-paid API credits on your OpenAI account. API usage is not included in ChatGPT Plus subscripiton.

See also: ChatGPT Website extension, which opens a new chat on the ChatGPT website.

Actions

The main action, Chat, sends the selected text to OpenAI and either pastes the response after the selected text, replaces the selected text with the response, or copies the response to the clipboard.

The Reset action (broom icon) clears the current chat history to start a fresh conversation.

Configuration

API Key

To use this extension, you need to provide it with an API Key for an OpenAI account. To get an API Key:

  1. Sign up for an OpenAI Account here: https://platform.openai.com/
  2. Generate an API key here: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
  3. Copy and paste the API Key (it starts with sk-) into the API Key field in the extension's settings.

Model

Available values are gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, o1, o1-mini and o3-mini. Note that some accounts might not be able to access all models — see OpenAI's documentation for details.

System Message

Optional text to specify the system message. This tells the assistant how to behave.

Example system message:

You are proofreader. I want you to correct the spelling and grammar of my messages. Please reply to each message with a corrected version. After each message, please briefly list the errors you corrected.

If you leave the System Message field blank, no system message will be specified.

API Base Domain

The base domain for the OpenAI API. This should be api.openai.com unless you are using a custom domain to access the API.

Response Handling

Control how the response is handled. The options are:

  • Append (default): Append the response to the end of the selected text.
  • Replace: Replace the selected text with the response.
  • Copy: Copy the response to the clipboard.

Modifiers:

  • Shift(⇧) to copy the response to the clipboard.
  • Option(⌥) in append mode, replace instead. In replace mode, append instead.

Reset Timer (minutes)

After this many minutes without any messages, the extension will automatically reset the conversation. Set it blank to never reset, and set it to 0 to always reset. The default value is 15 minutes.

Show Reset Button

Control whether or not to show the reset action in the popup.

Errors

You may see the following error:

Message from OpenAI (code 429): You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing data.

The message means you need to add some credit to you OpenAI API account. You can do this at https://platform.openai.com/account/billing/overview.

Notes

Author: Nick Moore, with additional contributions.

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Changelog

  • 2025-02-04: Add o1 and o3-mini models. Set default to gpt-4o-mini. Remove gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo and o1-preview models from list.
  • 2024-11-20: Add o1-preview and o1-mini models.
  • 2024-11-15: Add "Copy" tp Response Handcling options.
  • 2024-11-12: Add "Response Handling" setting. Thanks to @zhiyelee for the idea.
  • 2024-07-30: Add gpt-4o-mini model. Thanks to @kis87988.
  • 2024-05-18: Add API Base Domain setting. Thanks to @chentao1006.
  • 2024-05-17: Store API key in keychain. Configurable system message. PopClip bar stays on screen after pressing reset. Rename to "OpenAI Chat".
  • 2024-05-15: Update model list to include gpt-4o. Thanks to @igor-arkhipov.
  • 2024-03-14: Add support for gpt-4-turbo-preview model. Fix thanks to @santiagoti.
  • 2023-09-24: Add support for GPT-4 model. Fix thanks to @rijieli.
  • 2023-08-31: Add documentation about error message to README.
  • 2023-07-15: Add error message reporting instead of just an X.
  • 2023-03-03: Initial release.
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