litellm-mirror/README.md

# *🚅 litellm*
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a light package to simplify calling OpenAI, Azure, Cohere, Anthropic, Huggingface API Endpoints. It manages:
- translating inputs to the provider's completion and embedding endpoints
- guarantees [consistent output](https://litellm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/output/), text responses will always be available at `['choices'][0]['message']['content']`
- exception mapping - common exceptions across providers are mapped to the [OpenAI exception types](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6897213-openai-library-error-types-guidance)
# usage
Demo - https://litellm.ai/ \
Read the docs - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/

## quick start
```
pip install litellm
```

```python
from litellm import completion
import os

# set API keys
os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = "<your key>"

messages = [{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]

# openai call
response = completion(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=messages)

# cohere call
response = completion("command-nightly", messages)

# azure openai call
response = completion("chatgpt-test", messages, azure=True)

# hugging face call
response = completion(model="stabilityai/stablecode-completion-alpha-3b-4k", messages=messages, hugging_face=True)

# openrouter call
response = completion("google/palm-2-codechat-bison", messages)
```
Code Sample: [Getting Started Notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1gR3pY-JzDZahzpVdbGBtrNGDBmzUNJaJ?usp=sharing)

Stable version
```
pip install litellm==0.1.345
```

## Streaming Queries
liteLLM supports streaming the model response back, pass `stream=True` to get a streaming iterator in response.
Streaming is supported for OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic models
```python
response = completion(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=messages, stream=True)
for chunk in response:
    print(chunk['choices'][0]['delta'])

# claude 2
result = completion('claude-2', messages, stream=True)
for chunk in result:
  print(chunk['choices'][0]['delta'])
```

# support / talk with founders
- [Our calendar 👋](https://calendly.com/d/4mp-gd3-k5k/berriai-1-1-onboarding-litellm-hosted-version)
- [Community Discord 💭](https://discord.gg/wuPM9dRgDw)
- Our numbers 📞 +1 (770) 8783-106 / ‭+1 (412) 618-6238‬
- Our emails ✉️ ishaan@berri.ai / krrish@berri.ai

# why did we build this 
- **Need for simplicity**: Our code started to get extremely complicated managing & translating calls between Azure, OpenAI, Cohere