OpenAI Edge

A TypeScript module for querying OpenAI's API using fetch (a standard Web API) instead of axios. This is a drop-in replacement for the official openai module (which has axios as a dependency).

As well as reducing the bundle size, removing the dependency means we can query OpenAI from edge environments. Edge functions such as Next.js Edge API Routes are very fast and, unlike lambda functions, allow streaming data to the client.

The latest version of this module has feature parity with the official v3.3.0.

Update July 2023: The official openai library will use fetch in v4, hopefully making openai-edge redundant. You can try it in beta now, more info here: https://github.com/openai/openai-node/discussions/182

Installation

yarn add openai-edge

or

npm install openai-edge

Responses

Every method returns a promise resolving to the standard fetch response i.e. Promise<Response>. Since fetch doesn't have built-in support for types in its response data, openai-edge includes an export ResponseTypes which you can use to assert the correct type on the JSON response:

import { Configuration, OpenAIApi, ResponseTypes } from "openai-edge"

const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: "YOUR-API-KEY",
})
const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration)

const response = await openai.createImage({
  prompt: "A cute baby sea otter",
  size: "512x512",
  response_format: "url",
})

const data = (await response.json()) as ResponseTypes["createImage"]

const url = data.data?.[0]?.url

console.log({ url })

With Azure

To use with Azure OpenAI Service you'll need to include an api-key header and an api-version query parameter:

const config = new Configuration({
  apiKey: AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY,
  baseOptions: {
    headers: {
      "api-key": AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY,
    },
  },
  basePath: `https://YOUR_RESOURCE_NAME.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME`,
  defaultQueryParams: new URLSearchParams({
    "api-version": AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION,
  }),
})

Without global fetch

This module has zero dependencies and it expects fetch to be in the global namespace (as it is in web, edge and modern Node environments). If you're running in an environment without a global fetch defined e.g. an older version of Node.js, please pass fetch when creating your instance:

import fetch from "node-fetch"

const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration, undefined, fetch)

Without global FormData

This module also expects to be in an environment where FormData is defined. If you're running in Node.js, that means using v18 or later.

Available methods

• cancelFineTune
• createAnswer
• createChatCompletion (including support for functions)
• createClassification
• createCompletion
• createEdit
• createEmbedding
• createFile
• createFineTune
• createImage
• createImageEdit
• createImageVariation
• createModeration
• createSearch
• createTranscription
• createTranslation
• deleteFile
• deleteModel
• downloadFile
• listEngines
• listFiles
• listFineTuneEvents
• listFineTunes
• listModels
• retrieveEngine
• retrieveFile
• retrieveFineTune
• retrieveModel

Edge route handler examples

Here are some sample Next.js Edge API Routes using openai-edge.

1. Streaming chat with gpt-3.5-turbo

Note that when using the stream: true option, OpenAI responds with server-sent events. Here's an example react hook to consume SSEs and here's a full NextJS example.

import type { NextRequest } from "next/server"
import { Configuration, OpenAIApi } from "openai-edge"

const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
})
const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration)

const handler = async (req: NextRequest) => {
  const { searchParams } = new URL(req.url)

  try {
    const completion = await openai.createChatCompletion({
      model: "gpt-3.5-turbo",
      messages: [
        { role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
        { role: "user", content: "Who won the world series in 2020?" },
        {
          role: "assistant",
          content: "The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 2020.",
        },
        { role: "user", content: "Where was it played?" },
      ],
      max_tokens: 7,
      temperature: 0,
      stream: true,
    })

    return new Response(completion.body, {
      headers: {
        "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
        "Content-Type": "text/event-stream;charset=utf-8",
        "Cache-Control": "no-cache, no-transform",
        "X-Accel-Buffering": "no",
      },
    })
  } catch (error: any) {
    console.error(error)

    return new Response(JSON.stringify(error), {
      status: 400,
      headers: {
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
    })
  }
}

export const config = {
  runtime: "edge",
}

export default handler

2. Text completion with Davinci

import type { NextRequest } from "next/server"
import { Configuration, OpenAIApi, ResponseTypes } from "openai-edge"

const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
})
const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration)

const handler = async (req: NextRequest) => {
  const { searchParams } = new URL(req.url)

  try {
    const completion = await openai.createCompletion({
      model: "text-davinci-003",
      prompt: searchParams.get("prompt") ?? "Say this is a test",
      max_tokens: 7,
      temperature: 0,
      stream: false,
    })

    const data = (await completion.json()) as ResponseTypes["createCompletion"]

    return new Response(JSON.stringify(data.choices), {
      status: 200,
      headers: {
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
    })
  } catch (error: any) {
    console.error(error)

    return new Response(JSON.stringify(error), {
      status: 400,
      headers: {
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
    })
  }
}

export const config = {
  runtime: "edge",
}

export default handler

3. Creating an Image with DALL·E

import type { NextRequest } from "next/server"
import { Configuration, OpenAIApi, ResponseTypes } from "openai-edge"

const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
})
const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration)

const handler = async (req: NextRequest) => {
  const { searchParams } = new URL(req.url)

  try {
    const image = await openai.createImage({
      prompt: searchParams.get("prompt") ?? "A cute baby sea otter",
      n: 1,
      size: "512x512",
      response_format: "url",
    })

    const data = (await image.json()) as ResponseTypes["createImage"]

    const url = data.data?.[0]?.url

    return new Response(JSON.stringify({ url }), {
      status: 200,
      headers: {
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
    })
  } catch (error: any) {
    console.error(error)

    return new Response(JSON.stringify(error), {
      status: 400,
      headers: {
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
    })
  }
}

export const config = {
  runtime: "edge",
}

export default handler