OpenAI Vision API: can’t pass image from Bubble

jeff.warren.orr · 2025-01-28T19:23:57.477Z

Hey all, been stuck on this for a few hours so hoping for another set of eyes.

Goal: user uploads an image, I send that image to OpenAI Vision API, it analyzes it and sends back a response that I display to the user.

Where I’m at:

I successfully “initialized” the OpenAI API.
I can send a hard-coded image URL (i.e. I copy/paste the image URL and send it via the API) and it works fine. I get a response back from OpenAI and see it populate in the database.
Where something is wrong is when I pass a user uploaded image into the backend workflow connected to OpenAI API. The image is being added to my Bubble database, but I am not received anything back from OpenAI. (Attached screenshots of my workflows)

Any tips are greatly appreciated!!

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DjackLowCode · 2025-01-28T19:31:34.099Z

@jeff.warren.orr try to debug these possibilities:

you may need to include https:// in the url
JSON safe adds quotes to the text, which can break json formatting depending how you use it.
If the file is private, you’ll need to authenticate it before OpenAI (or anyone) can see it

I’d recommend setting up your workflows in the front-end first to figure out what’s going on.

Good luck!

jeff.warren.orr · 2025-01-28T19:58:33.970Z

Thank you for your response!

I tried a few combinations of adding “https://” and removing JSON safe with no luck. I’ll keep trying that though because I may have missed something.

Can you point me in the direction of where I can learn more about “authenticating” a file so it’s visible to OpenAI? I currently have the data type of Background Image set to public with no privacy rules applied.

system · 2025-04-08T19:24:51.328Z

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