About the interactive working mechanism between this package and the browser.

[hongyi-zhao]

As discussed here:

It looks like it only uses a browser to capture the session cookie, then closes it and just hits the chat.openai.com endpoints directly? if so, and if that works, it's probably a lot more responsive.

I'm not sure if this is true. Any comments and explanations will be appreciated.

Regards,
Zhao

[acheong08]

The point of this package is to avoid the use of a browser so that it works better on headless VPS. Authentication is handled by https://github.com/acheong08/OpenAIAuth which is a reverse engineering of their login page. It should be much faster than doing it on the browser.

As for the how we're calling the API, it's via a closed source Cloudflare bypass for ChatGPT I wrote about a week ago.

[acheong08]

Security risk to them, not us

[hongyi-zhao]

If so, they might sooner or later block this authentication method, causing this package to not work.

[acheong08]

That's why the bypass server is closed source for now.

As for the authentication, I will always be able to reverse it in a few hours if they change it

[hongyi-zhao]

If I understand correctly, this project relies on a private bypass server under the hood to work perfectly.

[acheong08]

If I understand correctly, this project relies on a private bypass server under the hood to work perfectly.

Yes