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+import os
+from flask import Flask, jsonify, request
+import openai
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+# retrieve ChatGPT API key from system variable
+API_KEY = os.environ.get("CHATGPT_API_KEY")
+
+# initialize OpenAI API client
+openai.api_key = API_KEY
+engine_id = "text-davinci-002"
+
+@app.route('/chatgpt', methods=['GET'])
+def chatgpt():
+    query = request.args.get('query')
+    response = openai.Completion.create(
+        engine=engine_id,
+        prompt=query,
+        max_tokens=150,
+        n=1,
+        stop="\n"
+    )
+    chatgpt_response = response.choices[0].text
+    return chatgpt_response
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app.run()