Can I limit the response from API call to just the parsed message?

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I call chatGPT from Python using openai_client.beta.chat.completions.parse(...,response_format=FoodDiaryEntry)

It spits back a giant response comprising of 750 tokens, pasted here. I’m only interested in response.choices[0].message.parsed, which is a more modest 300 tokens. While having all the extra junk doesn’t hurt the code, it does hurt my wallet.

Is there a way to just get the parsed message?

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total_tokens=581,

What you see is code, so access the parsed part via code and process that see docs: GitHub - openai/openai-python: The official Python library for the OpenAI API