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The OpenAI API

There is a lot more to the OpenAI API than sending a prompt. This course will teach you a broad overview of the platform: authenticating access, selecting a model, constructing requests, and handling responses, errors, and cost.

Intermediate
2h 6m

Created by Esteban Herrera

Last Updated Oct 18, 2026

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The OpenAI API

There is a lot more to the OpenAI API than sending a prompt. This course will teach you a broad overview of the platform: authenticating access, selecting a model, constructing requests, and handling responses, errors, and cost.

Intermediate
2h 6m

Created by Esteban Herrera

Last Updated Oct 18, 2026

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What you'll learn

Companies are increasingly turning to AI-driven tools to enhance user experiences and automate workflows, but developers often struggle with integrating these technologies effectively.

In this course, The OpenAI API, you’ll gain a broad, practical overview of OpenAI’s API platform.

First, you’ll explore what the API can do and how to set up and authenticate access.

Next, you’ll discover how to choose a model from the current families, and how tokens, context windows, cost, and latency constrain that choice.

Finally, you’ll learn how to construct, stream, and cache requests, and how to handle responses, errors, rate limits, and spend.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the OpenAI API needed to build on it with confidence.

The OpenAI API
Intermediate
2h 6m
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Esteban Herrera  - Pluralsight course - The OpenAI API
Esteban Herrera
50 courses 4.3 author rating 1078 ratings

Esteban Herrera has more than twelve years of experience in the software development industry. Having worked in many roles and projects, he has found his passion in programming with Java and JavaScript. Nowadays, he spends all his time learning new things, writing articles, teaching programming, and enjoying his kids.

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