# Function Calling with OpenAI API?

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/function-calling-with-openai-api/8740>\
**Category:** How do I?\
**Created:** [May 23, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/function-calling-with-openai-api/8740 "2024-05-23T10:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nilz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/nilz/32/9107_2.png) [@Nilz](https://community.weweb.io/u/Nilz)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/function-calling-with-openai-api/8740/1 "2024-05-23T10:19:52Z")

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Did anybody already tried function calling with the OpenAI API?

Here you can find more information about it.  
[https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling)

For me it is not clear how to implement it in the OpenAI API Plugin, if I don’t want to rebuild the whole thing with the REST Plugin.

Can anybody help?

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**Author:** ![raydeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/raydeck/32/384_2.png) [@raydeck](https://community.weweb.io/u/raydeck)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/function-calling-with-openai-api/8740/2 "2024-05-23T19:13:00Z")

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YOu don’t use function calling from the front end. The idea behind function calling is that the openAI conversation is handled by the “tool runner”, which is some kind of server-side resource that knows how to answer the requests for tool executions. YOu can do this in no-code using one of the backends out there ([Xano](https://xano.com), [Fastgen](https://fastgen.com), [Buildship](https://buildship.com), [Comnoco](https://comnoco.com)) or more code-y backend alternatives ([Supabase](https://supabase.com), lambdas, etc)

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**Author:** ![Nilz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/nilz/32/9107_2.png) [@Nilz](https://community.weweb.io/u/Nilz)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/function-calling-with-openai-api/8740/3 "2024-05-23T20:06:29Z")

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Thanks Ray. Will have a look.