How do i enable streaming using open ai assistants

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Hello everyone. I’m trying to enable streaming for my OpenAI assistant chatbots. While I can enable it in the Playground, I can’t find the option elsewhere when deploying my assistants. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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assuming that your api call is done on your backend, you need 2 things:

  1. use streaming when calling the API
  2. use streaming from your frontend to backend.

for step 1, follow the assistants api quickstart and in step 4, select streaming.

now to stream the data you receive from step 1 to your front-end, go to step 2.

for step 2, the approach depends on your setup. is this a web or mobile app. are you using some sort of framework. for web, one way is to use server-sent event approach.

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Thank you! for responding to my post. Using your instructions I was able to use the code below to create an assistant remotely. For some reason even though I have st streaming to be true. The streaming doesn’t seem to work. What am I doing wrong. Please advise. Code is below. I had to remove the chat completion links in the code otherwise i am not able to send you this message

import requests

OpenAI API key

api_key = ‘API KEY’

URL for creating the assistant

url = “”

Headers for the request

headers = {
“Content-Type”: “application/json”,
“Authorization”: f"Bearer {api_key}",
“OpenAI-Beta”: “assistants=v2”
}

Data for creating the assistant

data = {
“instructions”: “You are a personal math tutor. When asked a question, write and run Python code to answer the question.”,
“name”: “Math Tutor”,
“tools”: [{“type”: “code_interpreter”}],
“model”: “gpt-4o”
}

Send the POST request to create the assistant

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)

Print the response to ensure the assistant was created

print(“Assistant Creation Response:”, response.json())

Assuming the assistant was created successfully, now use it to chat with streaming

URL for the chat completions endpoint

chat_url = “”

Data for interacting with the assistant

chat_data = {
“model”: “gpt-4o”,
“messages”: [
{“role”: “system”, “content”: “You are a personal math tutor. When asked a question, write and run Python code to answer the question.”},
{“role”: “user”, “content”: “I need help with a math problem.”}
],
“stream”: True # Enable streaming
}

Send the POST request with streaming enabled

chat_response = requests.post(chat_url, headers=headers, json=chat_data, stream=True)

Process the streaming response

print(“Streaming Response:”)
for line in chat_response.iter_lines():
if line:
decoded_line = line.decode(‘utf-8’)
if decoded_line.startswith("data: "):
content = decoded_line[len("data: "):]
print(content)