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Building an OpenAI API request

Throughout the course, you'll write Python code to interact with the OpenAI API. Entering your own API key is not necessary to create requests and complete the exercises in this course.

The OpenAI class has already been imported for you from the openai library.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with the OpenAI API

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Exercise instructions

  • Create an OpenAI API client (keep <OPENAI_API_TOKEN> unchanged).
  • create a request to the Chat Completions endpoint.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create the OpenAI client
client = ____(api_key="")

# Create a request to the Chat Completions endpoint
response = client.chat.completions.____(
  model="gpt-4o-mini",
  messages=[
    {"role": "user", 
     "content": "Write a polite reply accepting an AI Engineer job offer."}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
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