# openai/openai-python

> The official Python library for the OpenAI API: sync and async clients, type definitions for all request params and responses, and authentication via API key or workload identity.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 31,729 total · +1 star on 2026-10-01 (UTC), ≈ 4 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: Python · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2020-10-25 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/openai/openai-python · Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/openai/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/openai/openai-python

## Useful for

- Send a model request via the Responses API or Chat Completions from a Python script
- Set up workload identity authentication in Kubernetes or cloud instead of an API key
- Use AsyncOpenAI for asynchronous OpenAI API calls in a service

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- About 12 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @craighckby-stack (293 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 6,771
- Issues and pull requests: 3,719
- Watchers: 400
- Average over the last week: 8 per day
- Usual pace: 9 per day
- Latest release: v3.22.1 (2026-09-30)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 13 days

09-19 2.7, 09-20 2.4, 09-21 2.5, 09-22 1.9, 09-23 2.3, 09-24 2.7, 09-25 2.5, 09-26 2.3, 09-27 2.5, 09-28 2.6, 09-29 2.6, 09-30 2.2, 10-01 1.9

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-01 11:14 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.