Class AsyncOpenAI

src/openai/_client.py:701–1304

class AsyncOpenAI(AsyncAPIClient):
    # client options
    api_key: str
    admin_api_key: str | None
    workload_identity: WorkloadIdentity | None
    organization: str | None
    project: str | None
    webhook_secret: str | None
    _workload_identity_auth: WorkloadIdentityAuth | None
    _provider: _Provider | None
    _provider_runtime: _ProviderRuntime | None

    websocket_base_url: str | httpx.URL | None
    """Base URL for WebSocket connections.

    If not specified, the default base URL will be used, with 'wss://' replacing the
    'http://' or 'https://' scheme. For example: 'http://example.com' becomes
    'wss://example.com'
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        *,
        api_key: str | Callable[[], Awaitable[str]] | None = None,
        admin_api_key: str | None = None,
        workload_identity: WorkloadIdentity | None = None,
        organization: str | None = None,
        project: str | None = None,
        webhook_secret: str | None = None,
        provider: _Provider | None = None,
        base_url: str | httpx.URL | None = None,
        websocket_base_url: str | httpx.URL | None = None,
        timeout: float | Timeout | None | NotGiven = not_given,
        max_retries: int = DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES,
        default_headers: Mapping[str, str] | None = None,
        default_query: Mapping[str, object] | None = None,
        # Configure a custom httpx client.
        # We provide a `DefaultAsyncHttpxClient` class that you can pass to retain the default values we use for `limits`, `timeout` & `follow_redirects`.
        # See the [httpx documentation](https://www.python-httpx.org/api/#asyncclient) for more details.
        http_client: httpx.AsyncClient | None = None,
        # Enable or disable schema validation for data returned by the API.
        # When enabled an error APIResponseValidationError is raised
        # if the API responds with invalid data for the expected schema.
        #
        # This parameter may be removed or changed in the future.
        # If you rely on this feature, please open a GitHub issue
        # outlining your use-case to help us decide if it should be
        # part of our public interface in the future.
        _strict_response_validation: bool = False,
        _enforce_credentials: bool = True,
    ) -> None:
        """Construct a new async AsyncOpenAI client instance.

        This automatically infers the following arguments from their corresponding environment variables if they are not provided:
        - `api_key` from `OPENAI_API_KEY`
        - `admin_api_key` from `OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY`
        - `organization` from `OPENAI_ORG_ID`
        - `project` from `OPENAI_PROJECT_ID`