Batch API - files.content not returning a .jsonl file format like documentation says

[VioletaCalvo]

Confirm this is a Node library issue and not an underlying OpenAI API issue

• This is an issue with the Node library

Describe the bug

The files.content method doesn't return a file content (like the documentation says)[https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/batch/5-retrieving-the-results], it returns an API response that we should treat as an streaming response to be able to retrieve the data.

To Reproduce

1. Try to run (the example the documentation shows)[https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/batch/5-retrieving-the-results]
2. The type of the result is not a .jsonl file but an API response.

Code snippets

No response

OS

macOS

Node version

Node v20.9.0

Library version

"openai": "^4.50.0",

[matt-casey]

Hi @VioletaCalvo

This method is a bit unique since some of the file content that is returned is binary content (e.g. images). We'll update the documentation to clarify that, I can see how that would be confusing.

For now, you'll need to get the file content from the response object, for example:

const fileResponse = await openai.files.content("file-abc123");
const fileContent = await file.text();