Added the option of specifying a proxy for the OpenAI API (#5246)

# Added the option of specifying a proxy for the OpenAI API

Fixes #5243

Co-authored-by: Yves Maurer <>

docs/modules/models/text_embedding/examples/openai.ipynb

@@ -124,12 +124,15 @@
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    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
-   "source": []
+   "source": [
+    "# if you are behind an explicit proxy, you can use the OPENAI_PROXY environment variable to pass through\n",
+    "os.environ[\"OPENAI_PROXY\"] = \"http://proxy.yourcompany.com:8080\""
+   ]
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "display_name": "Python 3.11.1 64-bit",
    "language": "python",
    "name": "python3"
   },
@@ -143,11 +146,11 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.9.1"
+   "version": "3.11.1"
   },
   "vscode": {
    "interpreter": {
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+    "hash": "e971737741ff4ec9aff7dc6155a1060a59a8a6d52c757dbbe66bf8ee389494b1"
    }
   }
  },