[Python] ValidationError: Client.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies' with...

I’m building a Streamlit app using LangChain and langchain-groq to query a Groq model (llama3-70b-8192). The app deploys on Streamlit Cloud but crashes with a ValidationError when initializing ChatGroq:

ValidationError: 1 validation error for ChatGroq
__root__
Client.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'
(type=type_error)


Code Snippet In app.py:

llm = ChatGroq(
model="llama3-70b-8192",
temperature=0,
groq_api_key=os.getenv("GROQ_API_KEY")
)


What I’ve Tried Fixed a dependency conflict by removing version pins for LangChain packages in requirements.txt, so langchain-groq is now 0.3.2. The error suggests groq==0.9.0 passes an unsupported 'proxies' argument, so I downgraded to groq==0.8.0, but the error persists.

Current requirements.txt

langchain
langchain-community
langchain-huggingface
langchain-chroma
langsmith==0.1.99
alpha-vantage==2.3.1
sentence-transformers==3.0.1
numpy==1.26.4
requests==2.32.3
python-dotenv==1.0.1
chromadb==0.4.22
groq==0.8.0
huggingface_hub==0.24.5
streamlit==1.37.0
fastapi==0.111.0
uvicorn==0.30.1
onnx==1.16.1
pysqlite3-binary
langchain-groq


Questions Why does ChatGroq still pass the 'proxies' argument with groq==0.8.0? Are there compatible versions of langchain-groq and groq for Streamlit Cloud? My project is on GitHub: https://github.com/gargumang411/stock-assistant.

Any help would be great!

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