Go OpenAI

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

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

Installation:

go get github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai

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)
}

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 ", "your Model deployment name")
	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)
}

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
  }
}