Getting started

Quickstart

From zero to the first answer in five minutes — with curl, Python or JavaScript.

1. Create an API key

Create a personal key under Settings → API & CLI. It is shown exactly once; afterwards only its hash is stored. Put it in an environment variable:

export FUTUREWAY_API_KEY="sk-fw-api-…"

2. Set the base URL

Every OpenAI SDK accepts a base URL. Set https://api.futureway.ai/v1 — nothing else changes.

3. First request

A chat completion with the default model:

curl https://api.futureway.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FUTUREWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "futureway-smart",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Was ist die Hauptstadt von Frankreich?"
    }
  ]
}'

4. Streaming

With stream: true the tokens arrive as server-sent events as they are generated — for anything longer than a sentence:

curl https://api.futureway.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FUTUREWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -N \
  -d '{"model":"futureway-smart","stream":true,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Zähle bis drei."}]}'

5. Check your key

The App API answers what your key is — kind, scopes, expiry, organisation: