OpenAI Cookbook

The OpenAI Cookbook shares example code for accomplishing common tasks with the OpenAI API.

To run these examples, you'll need an OpenAI account and API key (create a free account).

Most code examples are written in Python, though the concepts can be applied in any language.

Recently added/updated 🆕 ✨

• How to fine-tune chat models [Aug 22, 2023]
• How to evaluate abstractive summarization [Aug 16, 2023]
• Whisper prompting guide [June 27, 2023]
• Question answering using a search API and re-ranking [June 16, 2023]
• How to call functions with Chat models [June 13, 2023]

Guides & examples

• API usage
  • How to handle rate limits
    • Example parallel processing script that avoids hitting rate limits
  • How to count tokens with tiktoken
• GPT
  • How to format inputs to ChatGPT models
  • How to stream completions
  • How to use a multi-step prompt to write unit tests
  • Guide: How to work with large language models
  • Guide: Techniques to improve reliability
• Embeddings
  • Text comparison examples
  • How to get embeddings
  • Question answering using embeddings
  • Using vector databases for embeddings search
  • Semantic search using embeddings
  • Recommendations using embeddings
  • Clustering embeddings
  • Visualizing embeddings in 2D or 3D
  • Embedding long texts
  • Embeddings playground (streamlit app)
  • Search reranking with cross-encoders
• Apps
  • File Q&A
  • Web Crawl Q&A
  • Powering your products with ChatGPT and your own data
• Fine-tuning GPT-3
  • Guide: best practices for fine-tuning GPT-3 to classify text
  • Fine-tuned classification
• DALL-E
  • How to generate and edit images with DALL·E
  • How to create dynamic masks with DALL·E and Segment Anything
• Whisper
  • Whisper prompting guide
• Azure OpenAI (alternative API from Microsoft Azure)
  • How to use ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI
  • How to get completions from Azure OpenAI
  • How to get embeddings from Azure OpenAI
  • How to generate images with DALL·E fom Azure OpenAI

Related OpenAI resources

Beyond the code examples here, you can learn about the OpenAI API from the following resources:

• Experiment with ChatGPT
• Try the API in the OpenAI Playground
• Read about the API in the OpenAI Documentation
• Get help in the OpenAI Help Center
• Discuss the API in the OpenAI Community Forum or OpenAI Discord channel
• See example prompts in the OpenAI Examples
• Stay updated with the OpenAI Blog

Contributing

If there are examples or guides you'd like to see, feel free to suggest them on the issues page. We are also happy to accept high quality pull requests, as long as they fit the scope of the repo.