# OpenAI timeouts

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/openai-timeouts/66639>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Tags:** openai\
**Created:** [September 29, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/openai-timeouts/66639 "2023-09-29T18:05:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![J\_Woosley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/j_woosley/32/64568_2.png) [@J\_Woosley](https://community.glideapps.com/u/J_Woosley)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/openai-timeouts/66639/1 "2023-09-29T18:05:40Z")

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Hi everyone. As many of you probably know, the OpenAI API times out after 60 seconds. I know other platforms have been able to get around this. If I call the API directly through the new CallAPI feature, could I avoid the timeout? Also… I’ve seen other platforms that can return results one word at a time rather than after the complete result has been pulled. Any ideas how?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/openai-timeouts/66639/2 "2023-09-30T03:12:24Z")

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> [@J\_Woosley](#):
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> I’ve seen other platforms that can return results one word at a time rather than after the complete result has been pulled.

I was reading about this the other day, that’s what they call “streaming”.

> <https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples/How_to_stream_completions.ipynb>

However, as I understand, you might incur many more updates that way, if you want to update the result every time the API returns a new part in the result (if you do it through Make/Zapier).

I don’t know how it would work with Call API. Since you’re not changing the URL to call, I don’t know if Glide caches the result or not, there might be a chance you won’t get the full answer.