structout-llm

Guaranteed structured output from any LLM — with automatic retries and Pydantic validation.

pip install structout-llm

The Problem

LLMs don't always return valid JSON. They add markdown fences, extra text, wrong types, missing fields. Your code breaks. You add manual parsing. It breaks again.

structout-llm fixes this — automatically.

Quick Start

from pydantic import BaseModel
from structout import extract

class Person(BaseModel):
    name: str
    age: int
    city: str

result = extract(
    instruction="Extract person details",
    schema=Person,
    provider="openai",
    model="gpt-4o",
    api_key="sk-...",
    text="John Doe is 28 years old and lives in Mumbai."
)

print(result.data.name)     # "John Doe"
print(result.data.age)      # 28
print(result.attempts)      # 1
print(result.latency_ms)    # 1243.5

Supported Providers

Features

• ✅ Auto retry — retries with error context when validation fails
• ✅ Pydantic validation — full type safety and field validation
• ✅ JSON extraction — handles markdown fences, extra text, trailing commas
• ✅ Safe mode — extract_safe() never raises, returns error in result
• ✅ Metrics — tokens, latency, attempts tracked per call
• ✅ Provider agnostic — same API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini

extract() vs extract_safe()

# extract() raises ExtractionError if all retries fail
try:
    result = extract(instruction, schema, provider, model, api_key)
except ExtractionError as e:
    print(f"Failed after {e.attempts} attempts: {e.message}")

# extract_safe() never raises — check result.success instead
result = extract_safe(instruction, schema, provider, model, api_key)
if not result.success:
    print(f"Failed: {result.error}")

ExtractionResult

result.data          # Validated Pydantic model instance
result.success       # True if extraction succeeded
result.attempts      # How many retries were needed
result.tokens_in     # Input tokens used
result.tokens_out    # Output tokens used
result.latency_ms    # Total time in milliseconds
result.raw_output    # Raw LLM response string
result.error         # Error message if failed, else None

License

MIT