Go OpenAI

This library provides unofficial Go clients for OpenAI API. We support:

• ChatGPT
• GPT-3, GPT-4
• DALL·E 2
• Whisper

Installation:

go get github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai

Currently, go-openai requires Go version 1.18 or greater.

ChatGPT example usage:

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	client := openai.NewClient("your token")
	resp, err := client.CreateChatCompletion(
		context.Background(),
		openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
			Model: openai.GPT3Dot5Turbo,
			Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
				{
					Role:    openai.ChatMessageRoleUser,
					Content: "Hello!",
				},
			},
		},
	)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("ChatCompletion error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Message.Content)
}

Getting an OpenAI API Key:

1. Visit the OpenAI website at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.
2. If you don't have an account, click on "Sign Up" to create one. If you do, click "Log In".
3. Once logged in, navigate to your API key management page.
4. Click on "Create new secret key".
5. Enter a name for your new key, then click "Create secret key".
6. Your new API key will be displayed. Use this key to interact with the OpenAI API.

Note: Your API key is sensitive information. Do not share it with anyone.

Other examples:

ChatGPT streaming completion

package main

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	c := openai.NewClient("your token")
	ctx := context.Background()

	req := openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
		Model:     openai.GPT3Dot5Turbo,
		MaxTokens: 20,
		Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
			{
				Role:    openai.ChatMessageRoleUser,
				Content: "Lorem ipsum",
			},
		},
		Stream: true,
	}
	stream, err := c.CreateChatCompletionStream(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("ChatCompletionStream error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	defer stream.Close()

	fmt.Printf("Stream response: ")
	for {
		response, err := stream.Recv()
		if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
			fmt.Println("\nStream finished")
			return
		}

		if err != nil {
			fmt.Printf("\nStream error: %v\n", err)
			return
		}

		fmt.Printf(response.Choices[0].Delta.Content)
	}
}

GPT-3 completion

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	c := openai.NewClient("your token")
	ctx := context.Background()

	req := openai.CompletionRequest{
		Model:     openai.GPT3Ada,
		MaxTokens: 5,
		Prompt:    "Lorem ipsum",
	}
	resp, err := c.CreateCompletion(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Completion error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Text)
}

GPT-3 streaming completion

package main

import (
	"errors"
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	c := openai.NewClient("your token")
	ctx := context.Background()

	req := openai.CompletionRequest{
		Model:     openai.GPT3Ada,
		MaxTokens: 5,
		Prompt:    "Lorem ipsum",
		Stream:    true,
	}
	stream, err := c.CreateCompletionStream(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("CompletionStream error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	defer stream.Close()

	for {
		response, err := stream.Recv()
		if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
			fmt.Println("Stream finished")
			return
		}

		if err != nil {
			fmt.Printf("Stream error: %v\n", err)
			return
		}


		fmt.Printf("Stream response: %v\n", response)
	}
}

Audio Speech-To-Text

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	c := openai.NewClient("your token")
	ctx := context.Background()

	req := openai.AudioRequest{
		Model:    openai.Whisper1,
		FilePath: "recording.mp3",
	}
	resp, err := c.CreateTranscription(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Transcription error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(resp.Text)
}

Audio Captions

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	c := openai.NewClient(os.Getenv("OPENAI_KEY"))

	req := openai.AudioRequest{
		Model:    openai.Whisper1,
		FilePath: os.Args[1],
		Format:   openai.AudioResponseFormatSRT,
	}
	resp, err := c.CreateTranscription(context.Background(), req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Transcription error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	f, err := os.Create(os.Args[1] + ".srt")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Could not open file: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	defer f.Close()
	if _, err := f.WriteString(resp.Text); err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Error writing to file: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
}

DALL-E 2 image generation

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"context"
	"encoding/base64"
	"fmt"
	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
	"image/png"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	c := openai.NewClient("your token")
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Sample image by link
	reqUrl := openai.ImageRequest{
		Prompt:         "Parrot on a skateboard performs a trick, cartoon style, natural light, high detail",
		Size:           openai.CreateImageSize256x256,
		ResponseFormat: openai.CreateImageResponseFormatURL,
		N:              1,
	}

	respUrl, err := c.CreateImage(ctx, reqUrl)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Image creation error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(respUrl.Data[0].URL)

	// Example image as base64
	reqBase64 := openai.ImageRequest{
		Prompt:         "Portrait of a humanoid parrot in a classic costume, high detail, realistic light, unreal engine",
		Size:           openai.CreateImageSize256x256,
		ResponseFormat: openai.CreateImageResponseFormatB64JSON,
		N:              1,
	}

	respBase64, err := c.CreateImage(ctx, reqBase64)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Image creation error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	imgBytes, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(respBase64.Data[0].B64JSON)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Base64 decode error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	r := bytes.NewReader(imgBytes)
	imgData, err := png.Decode(r)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("PNG decode error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	file, err := os.Create("example.png")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("File creation error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	defer file.Close()

	if err := png.Encode(file, imgData); err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("PNG encode error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	fmt.Println("The image was saved as example.png")
}

Configuring proxy

config := openai.DefaultConfig("token")
proxyUrl, err := url.Parse("http://localhost:{port}")
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
transport := &http.Transport{
	Proxy: http.ProxyURL(proxyUrl),
}
config.HTTPClient = &http.Client{
	Transport: transport,
}

c := openai.NewClientWithConfig(config)

See also: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai#ClientConfig

ChatGPT support context

package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"strings"

	"github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	client := openai.NewClient("your token")
	messages := make([]openai.ChatCompletionMessage, 0)
	reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
	fmt.Println("Conversation")
	fmt.Println("---------------------")

	for {
		fmt.Print("-> ")
		text, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
		// convert CRLF to LF
		text = strings.Replace(text, "\n", "", -1)
		messages = append(messages, openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
			Role:    openai.ChatMessageRoleUser,
			Content: text,
		})

		resp, err := client.CreateChatCompletion(
			context.Background(),
			openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
				Model:    openai.GPT3Dot5Turbo,
				Messages: messages,
			},
		)

		if err != nil {
			fmt.Printf("ChatCompletion error: %v\n", err)
			continue
		}

		content := resp.Choices[0].Message.Content
		messages = append(messages, openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
			Role:    openai.ChatMessageRoleAssistant,
			Content: content,
		})
		fmt.Println(content)
	}
}

Azure OpenAI ChatGPT

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	config := openai.DefaultAzureConfig("your Azure OpenAI Key", "https://your Azure OpenAI Endpoint")
	// If you use a deployment name different from the model name, you can customize the AzureModelMapperFunc function
	// config.AzureModelMapperFunc = func(model string) string {
	// 	azureModelMapping = map[string]string{
	// 		"gpt-3.5-turbo": "your gpt-3.5-turbo deployment name",
	// 	}
	// 	return azureModelMapping[model]
	// }

	client := openai.NewClientWithConfig(config)
	resp, err := client.CreateChatCompletion(
		context.Background(),
		openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
			Model: openai.GPT3Dot5Turbo,
			Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
				{
					Role:    openai.ChatMessageRoleUser,
					Content: "Hello Azure OpenAI!",
				},
			},
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("ChatCompletion error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Message.Content)
}

Azure OpenAI Embeddings

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {

	config := openai.DefaultAzureConfig("your Azure OpenAI Key", "https://your Azure OpenAI Endpoint")
	config.APIVersion = "2023-05-15" // optional update to latest API version

	//If you use a deployment name different from the model name, you can customize the AzureModelMapperFunc function
	//config.AzureModelMapperFunc = func(model string) string {
	//    azureModelMapping = map[string]string{
	//        "gpt-3.5-turbo":"your gpt-3.5-turbo deployment name",
	//    }
	//    return azureModelMapping[model]
	//}

	input := "Text to vectorize"

	client := openai.NewClientWithConfig(config)
	resp, err := client.CreateEmbeddings(
		context.Background(),
		openai.EmbeddingRequest{
			Input: []string{input},
			Model: openai.AdaEmbeddingV2,
		})

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("CreateEmbeddings error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	vectors := resp.Data[0].Embedding // []float32 with 1536 dimensions

	fmt.Println(vectors[:10], "...", vectors[len(vectors)-10:])
}

JSON Schema for function calling

It is now possible for chat completion to choose to call a function for more information (see developer docs here).

In order to describe the type of functions that can be called, a JSON schema must be provided. Many JSON schema libraries exist and are more advanced than what we can offer in this library, however we have included a simple jsonschema package for those who want to use this feature without formatting their own JSON schema payload.

The developer documents give this JSON schema definition as an example:

{
  "name":"get_current_weather",
  "description":"Get the current weather in a given location",
  "parameters":{
    "type":"object",
    "properties":{
        "location":{
          "type":"string",
          "description":"The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA"
        },
        "unit":{
          "type":"string",
          "enum":[
              "celsius",
              "fahrenheit"
          ]
        }
    },
    "required":[
        "location"
    ]
  }
}

Using the jsonschema package, this schema could be created using structs as such:

FunctionDefinition{
  Name: "get_current_weather",
  Parameters: jsonschema.Definition{
    Type: jsonschema.Object,
    Properties: map[string]jsonschema.Definition{
      "location": {
        Type: jsonschema.String,
        Description: "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA",
      },
      "unit": {
        Type: jsonschema.String,
        Enum: []string{"celcius", "fahrenheit"},
      },
    },
    Required: []string{"location"},
  },
}

The Parameters field of a FunctionDefinition can accept either of the above styles, or even a nested struct from another library (as long as it can be marshalled into JSON).

Error handling

Open-AI maintains clear documentation on how to handle API errors

example:

e := &openai.APIError{}
if errors.As(err, &e) {
  switch e.HTTPStatusCode {
    case 401:
      // invalid auth or key (do not retry)
    case 429:
      // rate limiting or engine overload (wait and retry) 
    case 500:
      // openai server error (retry)
    default:
      // unhandled
  }
}

Fine Tune Model

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
	client := openai.NewClient("your token")
	ctx := context.Background()

	// create a .jsonl file with your training data
	// {"prompt": "<prompt text>", "completion": "<ideal generated text>"}
	// {"prompt": "<prompt text>", "completion": "<ideal generated text>"}
	// {"prompt": "<prompt text>", "completion": "<ideal generated text>"}

	// you can use openai cli tool to validate the data
	// For more info - https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

	file, err := client.CreateFile(ctx, openai.FileRequest{
		FilePath: "training_prepared.jsonl",
		Purpose:  "fine-tune",
	})
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Upload JSONL file error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	// create a fine tune job
	// Streams events until the job is done (this often takes minutes, but can take hours if there are many jobs in the queue or your dataset is large)
	// use below get method to know the status of your model
	tune, err := client.CreateFineTune(ctx, openai.FineTuneRequest{
		TrainingFile: file.ID,
		Model:        "ada", // babbage, curie, davinci, or a fine-tuned model created after 2022-04-21.
	})
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Creating new fine tune model error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}

	getTune, err := client.GetFineTune(ctx, tune.ID)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Getting fine tune model error: %v\n", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(getTune.FineTunedModel)

	// once the status of getTune is `succeeded`, you can use your fine tune model in Completion Request

	// resp, err := client.CreateCompletion(ctx, openai.CompletionRequest{
	//	 Model:  getTune.FineTunedModel,
	//	 Prompt: "your prompt",
	// })
	// if err != nil {
	//	 fmt.Printf("Create completion error %v\n", err)
	//	 return
	// }
	//
	// fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Text)
}

See the `examples/` folder for more.

Integration tests:

Integration tests are requested against the production version of the OpenAI API. These tests will verify that the library is properly coded against the actual behavior of the API, and will fail upon any incompatible change in the API.

Notes: These tests send real network traffic to the OpenAI API and may reach rate limits. Temporary network problems may also cause the test to fail.

Run tests using:

OPENAI_TOKEN=XXX go test -v -tags=integration ./api_integration_test.go

If the OPENAI_TOKEN environment variable is not available, integration tests will be skipped.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why don't we get the same answer when specifying a temperature field of 0 and asking the same question?

Even when specifying a temperature field of 0, it doesn't guarantee that you'll always get the same response. Several factors come into play.

1. Go OpenAI Behavior: When you specify a temperature field of 0 in Go OpenAI, the omitempty tag causes that field to be removed from the request. Consequently, the OpenAI API applies the default value of 1.
2. Token Count for Input/Output: If there's a large number of tokens in the input and output, setting the temperature to 0 can still result in non-deterministic behavior. In particular, when using around 32k tokens, the likelihood of non-deterministic behavior becomes highest even with a temperature of 0.

Due to the factors mentioned above, different answers may be returned even for the same question.

Workarounds:

1. Using math.SmallestNonzeroFloat32: By specifying math.SmallestNonzeroFloat32 in the temperature field instead of 0, you can mimic the behavior of setting it to 0.
2. Limiting Token Count: By limiting the number of tokens in the input and output and especially avoiding large requests close to 32k tokens, you can reduce the risk of non-deterministic behavior.

By adopting these strategies, you can expect more consistent results.

Related Issues:
omitempty option of request struct will generate incorrect request when parameter is 0.

Does Go OpenAI provide a method to count tokens?

No, Go OpenAI does not offer a feature to count tokens, and there are no plans to provide such a feature in the future. However, if there's a way to implement a token counting feature with zero dependencies, it might be possible to merge that feature into Go OpenAI. Otherwise, it would be more appropriate to implement it in a dedicated library or repository.

For counting tokens, you might find the following links helpful:

• Counting Tokens For Chat API Calls
• How to count tokens with tiktoken

Related Issues:
Is it possible to join the implementation of GPT3 Tokenizer

Thank you

We want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to the contributors and sponsors of this project:

• Carson Kahn of Spindle AI

To all of you: thank you. You've helped us achieve more than we ever imagined possible. Can't wait to see where we go next, together!