Developer quickstart

Take your first steps with the OpenAI API.

The OpenAI API provides a simple interface to state-of-the-art AI models for text generation, natural language processing, computer vision, and more. This example generates text output from a prompt, as you might using ChatGPT.

Generate text from a model

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import OpenAI from "openai";

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const client = new OpenAI();

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const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({

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    model: "gpt-4.1",

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    messages: [

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        {

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            role: "user",

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            content: "Write a one-sentence bedtime story about a unicorn.",

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        },

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    ],

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});

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console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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