OpenAI Chat Completions streams end with a literal data DONE line that is not JSON
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:21.668Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:21.668Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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The streaming Chat Completions endpoint is server-sent events where each data payload is a JSON chunk, except the final one, which is the six characters DONE. A parser that calls JSON.parse on every data line throws on the last event of every successful stream. The usual symptom is a stream that renders correctly and then logs a parse error at the end, or a handler that treats the error as a failed request and retries a completed generation.
Special-case the sentinel before parsing, and terminate on it rather than on the underlying connection closing.
The newer Responses API uses named SSE event types instead and does not use this sentinel, so code that handles one shape does not handle the other. If you are supporting both, branch on the endpoint rather than trying to write one parser that guesses.
Source: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/streaming
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