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Get an API key

Before you can start using the SDK, you’ll need to obtain your API key from AI21 Studio.

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Installation

Install ai21 Python SDK with your favorite package manager. 
pip install ai21

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Authentication

There are two ways to authenticate with the SDK:

Option 1: Pass the API key directly 
from ai21 import AI21Client

client = AI21Client(api_key="your_api_key")
Option 2: Use an environment variable Set the variable in your terminal: 
export AI21_API_KEY="your_api_key"
Then in your Python code, you can initialize the client without explicitly passing the key: 
client = AI21Client()
For details on how authentication works at the HTTP level, see the API Refrence Autentication.

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Example usage

This example demonstrates how to initialize the AI21 Python SDK client and send a simple chat message using the jamba-mini model. 
from ai21 import AI21Client
from ai21.models.chat import ChatMessage

client = AI21Client(
    # defaults to os.environ.get('AI21_API_KEY')
    api_key='my_api_key',
)

system = "You're a support engineer in a SaaS company"
messages = [
    ChatMessage(content=system, role="system"),
    ChatMessage(content="Hello, I need help with a signup process.", role="user"),
]

chat_completions = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=messages,
    model="jamba-mini",
)

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Python SDK

For more examples and detailed usage, check out our Python library GitHub repository.

Python library GitHub repository