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# Basic Stream

> Stream a gpt-4o agent's response synchronously through the OpenAI Responses API.

## Code

```python basic_stream.py theme={null}
from typing import Iterator  # noqa
from agno.agent import Agent, RunOutputEvent  # noqa
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses

agent = Agent(model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-4o"), markdown=True)

# Get the response in a variable
# run_response: Iterator[RunOutputEvent] = agent.run("Share a 2 sentence horror story", stream=True)
# for chunk in run_response:
#     print(chunk.content)

# Print the response in the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story", stream=True)

```

## Usage

<Snippet file="create-venv-step.mdx" />

**1. Set your API key**

```bash theme={null}
export OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx
```

**2. Install dependencies**

```bash theme={null}
uv pip install -U openai agno
```

**3. Run Agent**

```bash theme={null}
python basic_stream.py
```


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