Chat with the OpenAI model about your local images in Python

Use local images with OpenAI’s Chat Completions API in Python. Encode the image, build a payload with text and image data, send the request, and print the response.

Required packages

You need below packages to use the code generated by recipe. All packages are automatically installed in MLJAR Studio.

openai>=1.35.14

requests>=2.31.0

Interactive recipe

You can use below interactive recipe to generate code. This recipe is available in MLJAR Studio.

In the below recipe, we assume that you have following variables available in your notebook:

client (type OpenAI)

Python code

# Python code will be here

Code explanation

Choose the image and set its path.
Create the image encode function and call it.
Defines the headers for the HTTP request.
Constructs the JSON payload for the request.
Make the API request and print the response.

Example Python notebooks

Please find inspiration in example notebooks

OpenAI vision with local images in Python

OpenAI cookbook

Code recipes from OpenAI cookbook.

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