> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.oxyapi.uk/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.oxyapi.uk/making-requests.md).

# Making requests

You can paste the command below into your terminal to run your first API request. Make sure to replace `$OXYGEN_API_KEY` with your secret API key.

```bash
curl https://app.oxyapi.uk/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXYGEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
     "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
     "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say this is a test!"}],
     "temperature": 0.7
   }'

```

This request queries the `gpt-3.5-turbo` model (which under the hood points to the **latest** `gpt-3.5-turbo` **model variant**) to complete the text starting with a prompt of "*Say this is a test*". You should get a response back that resembles the following:

```json
{
    "id": "chatcmpl-abc123",
    "object": "chat.completion",
    "created": 1677858242,
    "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo-1106",
    "usage": {
        "prompt_tokens": 13,
        "completion_tokens": 7,
        "total_tokens": 20
    },
    "choices": [
        {
            "message": {
                "role": "assistant",
                "content": "\n\nThis is a test!"
            },
            "logprobs": null,
            "finish_reason": "stop",
            "index": 0
        }
    ]
}
```

Now that you've generated your first chat completion, let's break down the response object. We can see the `finish_reason` is `stop` which means the API returned the full chat completion generated by the model without running into any limits. In the choices list, we only generated a single message but you can set the `n` parameter to generate multiple messages choices.


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## Querying This Documentation
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Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.oxyapi.uk/making-requests.md?ask=<question>&goal=<endgoal>
```

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`goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal.

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