OpenAI API Quickstart - Python

This repository hosts multiple quickstart apps for different OpenAI API endpoints (chat, assistants, etc). Check out the examples folder to try out different examples and get started using the OpenAI API.

Basic request

To send your first API request with the OpenAI Python SDK, make sure you have the right dependencies installed and then run the following code:

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
  messages=[
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
  ]
)

print(completion.choices[0].message)

Setup

1. If you don’t have Python installed, install it from Python.org.

2. Clone this repository.

3. Navigate into the project directory:

   $ cd openai-quickstart-python
   

4. Create a new virtual environment:

   • macOS:

     $ python -m venv venv
     $ . venv/bin/activate
     

   • Windows:

     > python -m venv venv
     > .\venv\Scripts\activate
     

5. Install the requirements:

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

6. Make a copy of the example environment variables file:

   $ cp .env.example .env
   

7. Add your API key to the newly created .env file.

8. Run the app:

This step depends on the app itself. If the code uses flask (like the chat-basic example), you can run:

$ flask run

You should now be able to access the app from your browser at the following URL: http://localhost:5000!

If the code is just a simple Python script, you can run it with:

$ python my_file.py