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A simple hello world script to talk with Claude AI via API
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| import os | |
| import requests | |
| import json | |
| API_KEY = os.getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY") | |
| if not API_KEY: | |
| raise ValueError("Please set the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable.") | |
| url = "https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages" | |
| headers = { | |
| "x-api-key": API_KEY, | |
| "anthropic-version": "2023-06-01", | |
| "content-type": "application/json" | |
| } | |
| data = { | |
| "model": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514", | |
| "max_tokens": 1024, | |
| "messages": [ | |
| {"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Claude! Can you tell a joke about programmers?"} | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data) | |
| resp = response.json() | |
| # Extract just the text from the content array | |
| text_blocks = [block["text"] for block in resp.get("content", []) if block["type"] == "text"] | |
| # Join them (in case there are multiple text blocks) | |
| assistant_text = "\n".join(text_blocks) | |
| print(assistant_text) |
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