process.env.DEBUG variable can have many values

[OleksandrKucherenko]

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

process.env.DEBUG variable can be used by many libraries, for example: debug npm

more details: https://github.com/debug-js/debug#windows-command-prompt-notes

in other words DEBUG environment variable can be something more complicated than just a true or undefined.

To Reproduce

https://github.com/openai/openai-node/blob/master/src/core.ts#L994-L998

DEBUG=* yarn start:dev
DEBUG=*,-openai  yarn start:dev
DEBUG=openai yarn start:dev

Code snippets

https://github.com/openai/openai-node/blob/master/src/core.ts#L994-L998

 
DEBUG=* yarn start:dev # max verbosity
DEBUG=*,-openai  yarn start:dev # show all debug msgs except openai
DEBUG=openai yarn start:dev # show only openai logs

OS

macOs, Windows, Linux

Node version

any

Library version

4.6.0

[rattrayalex]

Thank you for the feature request; we'll think this over.

[vinnymac]

It's been quite a while now. Assuming you have not yet determined how you want to handle this, would you be open to a PR that at the very least allows us to disable the debug logs with another env, such as process.env.OPENAI_DISABLE_DEBUG?

My nodejs applications make heavy use of debug flags and openai is the only dependency we have that fills the log up with noise when we aren't asking for it.

[rattrayalex]

Thanks for the bump – there's a good chance a PR like that would be useful, feel free to put one up (though we may not merge as-is, the general idea I agree is good).