Real Time API Connectiion problem

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Hello
I am trying connect to RealTime Api with following pure javascript code

const API_KEY = 'my key';
const MODEL = 'gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-10-01';
const WS_BASE_URL = 'wss://api.openai.com/v1/realtime';

socket = new WebSocket(wsUrl);

But I getting the following error:
“Missing bearer or basic authentication in header”

Key is valid

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Welcome!

I checked the API reference docs real quick and found this which might help you?

The Realtime API is a stateful, event-based API that communicates over a WebSocket. The WebSocket connection requires the following parameters:

  • URL: wss://api.openai.com/v1/realtime
  • Query Parameters: ?model=gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-10-01
  • Headers:
    • Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
    • OpenAI-Beta: realtime=v1

Below is a simple example using the popular ws library in Node.js to establish a socket connection, send a message from the client, and receive a response from the server. It requires that a valid OPENAI_API_KEY is exported in the system environment.

Sounds like your super-basic code is not sending the required headers.

The docs are really useful and may help?

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime

Good luck and happy coding!

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Sorry, I missed th line - the full code looks like so

const API_KEY = 'my key';
const MODEL = 'gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-10-01';
const WS_BASE_URL = 'wss://api.openai.com/v1/realtime';

const wsUrl = ${WS_BASE_URL}?model=${encodeURIComponent(MODEL)}&Authorization=Bearer ${encodeURIComponent(API_KEY)}&OpenAI-Beta=realtime=v1;
socket = new WebSocket(wsUrl);

Maybe I have a mistake in wsUrl?

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Does anybody has solution?

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I have the similar problem.

There is my request:

GET /v1/realtime?model=gpt-4o-realtime-preview HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer s************A
OpenAI-Beta: realtime=v1
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Sec-WebSocket-Key: 1731060959581
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade

Server responds 400 Bad request without any additional information.

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