[2024] How to generate an image with DALLE-3 API

1 min readJan 25, 2024

This article gives you the simplest and most useful code for using DALLE-3 API for the first time.

▼Install modules

pip install openai
pip install requests

▼Code

dalle.py

from openai import OpenAI
import requests 
import os

prompt_str = "cute dog"

client = OpenAI(api_key="YOUR-OPENAI-API-KEY")
response = client.images.generate(
  model="dall-e-3",
  prompt=prompt_str,
  size="1024x1024",
  quality="standard", # /"hd"
  n=1,
)

image_url = response.data[0].url

print(image_url)

url_parts = image_url.split('?')
file_name = url_parts[0].split('/')[-1]

print('file_name : ', file_name)

### Download the image
response = requests.get(image_url)
if response.status_code == 200:
    with open(file_name, "wb") as f:
        f.write(response.content)
    print("The image was downloaded and saved.")
else:
    print("Image download failed.")