How can I handle OpenAI API errors when I'm using the streaming mode?

Question

Hi,

I am writing a Python application that uses the OpenAI API to create a chat.

I am having problems with error handling when using streaming mode, in that although I have entered a number of excepts, none of them intercept the error.

Here an example of the code that I'm using:

try:
    response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
                model="<model-name>",
                messages = messages,
                stream=true
    )
except openai.error.APIError as e:
    print(f"OpenAI API returned an API Error: {e}")
    pass
except openai.error.APIConnectionError as e:
    print(f"Failed to connect to OpenAI API: {e}")
    pass
except openai.error.RateLimitError as e:
    print(f"OpenAI API request exceeded rate limit: {e}")
    pass
except openai.error.Timeout as e:
    print(f"OpenAI API request timed out: {e}")
    pass
except openai.error.InvalidRequestError as e:
    print(f"Invalid request to OpenAI API: {e}")
    pass
except openai.error.AuthenticationError as e:
    print(f"Authentication error with OpenAI API: {e}")
    pass
except openai.error.ServiceUnavailableError as e:
    print(f"OpenAI API service unavailable: {e}")
    pass

The error I am getting is as follows:

"openai.error.APIError: The server had an error while processing your request. Sorry about that! (Error occurred while streaming.)"

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

@G Cocci Thanks for the question, Here is the sample streaming with the endpoints.

https://github.com/avrabyt/OpenAI-Streamlit-YouTube/blob/451de7a5b9b2cfcd55ff828e0ddb213f2274cf8e/Stream-Argument/app.py