Rust Installation

Add to Cargo.toml

cargo add openai-oxide tokio --features tokio/full

Or manually:

[dependencies]
openai-oxide = "0.9"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Feature Flags

Every API endpoint is behind a feature flag. All enabled by default.

# Minimal: only Responses API
openai-oxide = { version = "0.9", default-features = false, features = ["responses"] }

Available features: chat, responses, embeddings, images, audio, files, fine-tuning, models, moderations, batches, uploads, beta

Ecosystem features: websocket, websocket-wasm, simd, macros

Configuration

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
use openai_oxide::OpenAI;

// From environment variable (recommended)
let client = OpenAI::from_env()?; // Uses OPENAI_API_KEY

// Explicit key
let client = OpenAI::new("sk-...");

// Custom config
use openai_oxide::config::ClientConfig;
let client = OpenAI::with_config(
    ClientConfig::new("sk-...").base_url("https://...").timeout_secs(30)
);

// Azure
use openai_oxide::azure::AzureConfig;
let client = OpenAI::azure(
    AzureConfig::new().azure_endpoint("https://my.openai.azure.com").api_key("...")
)?;
}

API Reference

Full API docs: docs.rs/openai-oxide