# Hands-on Guide to Using cohere AI APIs with Python

In this guide, I will explain how to use cohere AI APIs with Python.

Table of Contents

*   [Requirements](https://harishgarg.com/#Requirements)
*   [Setup](https://harishgarg.com/#Setup)
*   [Your first call to cohere AI APIs with Python](https://harishgarg.com/#Your_first_call_to_cohere_AI_APIs_with_Python)
*   [Conclusion](https://harishgarg.com/#Conclusion)

Requirements
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You are going to need to cohere AI API Key. You can get a free account from [here](https://cohere.ai/).

After logging in, go to Dashboard -> API Keys.

While you are developing and testing, you can use a trial API key. cohere doesn’t charge you when you use the Trial API Key. However, it is recommended to use a Production API key for an app that you will release publicly.

Setup
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The first thing you need to do is install cohere’s Python package. You can do that by running the below command:

pip install cohere

Your first call to cohere AI APIs with Python
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Create a new python file, a Jupyter Notebook, or a Google Colab Notebook

First, we import the cohere python package and initiate a new cohere client with our cohere API key.

import cohere

cohere\_api\_key = "your cohere API key"

co = cohere.Client(cohere\_api\_key)

Below we are defining a method for calling the cohere API’s generate endpoint. Generate endpoint takes a text prompt and outputs generated text based on that prompt.

def generate\_text(user\_prompt):
    response = co.generate(
        model='command-xlarge-nightly',
        prompt= user\_prompt
        max\_tokens=300,
        temperature=0.9,
        k=0,
        p=0.75,
        frequency\_penalty=0,
        presence\_penalty=0,
        stop\_sequences=\[\],
        return\_likelihoods='NONE')
    return response.generations\[0\].text

The main parameter to pay attention in this is the prompt. You can ignore the rest right now.

Next call this method with your own prompt. For example

cohere\_api\_output = geenrate\_text("Write a blog post title on Space Travel in 2023")

print(cohere\_api\_output)

This will give you the generated text from the cohere AI APIs with Python.

Conclusion
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In this guide, I covered just one endpoint for using cohere AI APIs with Python. However, there are multiple endpoints. Check for more [cohere AI posts here](https://harishgarg.com/writing/category/text-ai/cohere-ai/).