Developer Getting Started Guide yields: "There was an uncaught error: The provided API key is invalid."

[tony-bpc]

What happened?

I followed this guide and am blocked by errors:

https://www.librechat.ai/docs/development/get_started

I tried historical versions resulting in same issue (0.7.2 , 0.6.5)

I created a Mongo DB connection, swapped default credentials, and created clean codespaces. These approaches did not solve the error.

Are others having this issue?

Steps to Reproduce

I used the following commands:

cd LibreChat/
npm ci
npm run frontend
npm run backend
----> error

Also tried:
npm run reinstall
npm run backend
-----> same error

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Microsoft Edge

Relevant log output

vscode@713d1ee7fdea:/workspaces/LibreChat$ npm run backend

> [email protected] backend
> cross-env NODE_ENV=production node api/server/index.js

2024-06-21 21:26:45 info: `REDIS_URI` not provided, or `USE_REDIS` not set. Redis module will not be initialized.
2024-06-21 21:26:46 error: There was an uncaught error: The provided API key is invalid.

Screenshots

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Code of Conduct

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[berry-13]

skipping this error, does the server remain active? It's hard to understand, but it doesn't seem to be a MongoDB authentication error. can you try to run LibreChat with the default .env except for the Mongo URI?

[danny-avila]

That's weird, I use the setup as described in the guide and have never encountered this.

Can you try with the default env setup as shown in .env.example file as @berry-13 mentioned?

[tony-bpc]

This result was based on a default .env setup. Resulting in the invalid API key error.

[fuegovic]

weird, it's also working fine for me

• git clone https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat.git
• cp .env.example .env
  • fill in my mongodb atlas URI
• npm ci
• npm run frontend
• npm run backend

PS D:\v0.7.4rc1\LibreChat> npm run backend

> [email protected] backend
> cross-env NODE_ENV=production node api/server/index.js

2024-06-21 17:53:44 info: [Optional] Redis not initialized. Note: Redis support is experimental.
2024-06-21 17:53:46 warn: Meilisearch error, search will be disabled
2024-06-21 17:53:47 info: Connected to MongoDB
2024-06-21 17:53:47 error: [indexSync] error fetch failed
2024-06-21 17:53:49 error: Config file YAML format is invalid: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'D:\v0.7.4rc1\LibreChat\librechat.yaml'
2024-06-21 17:53:49 warn: Default value for CREDS_KEY is being used.
2024-06-21 17:53:49 warn: Default value for CREDS_IV is being used.
2024-06-21 17:53:49 warn: Default value for JWT_SECRET is being used.
2024-06-21 17:53:49 warn: Default value for JWT_REFRESH_SECRET is being used.
2024-06-21 17:53:49 info: Please replace any default secret values.
2024-06-21 17:53:49 info: 

    For your convenience, use this tool to generate your own secret values:
    https://www.librechat.ai/toolkit/creds_generator

    ​
2024-06-21 17:53:49 warn: RAG API is either not running or not reachable at undefined, you may experience errors with file uploads.
2024-06-21 17:53:49 info: Server listening at http://localhost:3080

[berry-13]

@tony-bpc seems to be an error with codespace, not sure how to solve this

[tony-bpc]

This error occurs still in VS Code same process as @fuegovic above.

PS C:\Users\tpappas\Downloads\LibreChat-main\LibreChat-main> npm run backend

> [email protected] backend
> cross-env NODE_ENV=production node api/server/index.js

node:buffer:319
  throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE(
  ^

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The first argument must be of type string or an instance of Buffer, ArrayBuffer, or Array or an Array-like Object. Received undefined
    at Function.from (node:buffer:319:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\tpappas\Downloads\LibreChat-main\LibreChat-main\api\server\utils\crypto.js:4:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1358:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1416:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1208:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1024:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1233:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\tpappas\Downloads\LibreChat-main\LibreChat-main\api\server\utils\index.js:7:21)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1358:14) {
  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'
}

Node.js v20.14.0

[berry-13]

no, here you didn't create the .env or the librechat.yaml

[tony-bpc]

I had created the .env file and tried this line cp .env.example .env which got LibreChat to run locally now through VS code. Still have the same issue in codespaces. Thank you for your help.

[danny-avila]

"The provided API key is invalid." isn't anywhere in the code, so it's from an external connection? Upon searching on google, it seems to be a common "google" API message.

Try commenting every variable in the .env that starts with GOOGLE_ just as a good measure.

There are no API connections upon startup aside from mongodb that would be initialized, so maybe codespaces has some google analytics built into the environment?

[raymelon]

I also encountered the same issue when cloning the LibreChat space in HuggingFace

I followed this guide: https://www.librechat.ai/docs/remote/huggingface

[ziyuyouming]

You can try modifying the MEILI_MASTER_KEY in the .devcontainer/docker-compose.yml file. This configuration item also exists in .env.example. You can get the value of MEILI_MASTER_KEY in .env.example and then update it in the .devcontainer/docker-compose.yml file.

.devcontainer/docker-compose.yml:

meilisearch:
    ...
    environment:
      ...
-     - MEILI_MASTER_KEY=5c71cf56d672d009e36070b5bc5e47b743535ae55c818ae3b735bb6ebfb4ba63
+     - MEILI_MASTER_KEY=DrhYf7zENyR6AlUCKmnz0eYASOQdl6zxH7s7MKFSfFCt

[owengo]

I had also the error and it was because the MEILI_MASTER_KEY was incorrect.