# DeepSeek API

The DeepSeek API uses an API format compatible with OpenAI. By modifying the configuration, you can use the OpenAI SDK or softwares compatible with the OpenAI API to access the DeepSeek API.

| PARAM    | VALUE                        |
| -------- | ---------------------------- |
| api\_url | get the api\_url from emchub |
| api\_key | get the api\_key from emchub |

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### Invoke The Chat API

Once you have obtained an API key, you can access the DeepSeek API using the following example scripts. This is a non-stream example, you can set the stream parameter to true to get stream response.

· curl

```
curl <api_url> \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <api_key>" \
  -d '{
        "model": "emchubSDK-chat",
        "messages": [
          {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
          {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
        ],
        "stream": false
      }'
```

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```
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```

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