diff --git a/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.py b/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.py
index 2117cb9f6..0c5a8f00c 100644
--- a/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.py
+++ b/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.py
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ def create_pipeline(task):
     return pipe
 
 
-def transform_using(pipeline, args, inputs):
+def transform_using(pipeline, args, inputs, stream=False):
     args = orjson.loads(args)
     inputs = orjson.loads(inputs)
 
@@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ def transform_using(pipeline, args, inputs):
         inputs = [orjson.loads(input) for input in inputs]
     convert_eos_token(pipeline.tokenizer, args)
 
+    if stream:
+        return pipeline.stream(inputs, **args)
     return orjson.dumps(pipeline(inputs, **args), default=orjson_default).decode()
 
 
diff --git a/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.rs b/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.rs
index 6b89dd2a8..a03c0d751 100644
--- a/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.rs
+++ b/pgml-extension/src/bindings/transformers/transformers.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pub struct TransformStreamIterator {
 }
 
 impl TransformStreamIterator {
-    fn new(python_iter: Py<PyAny>) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(python_iter: Py<PyAny>) -> Self {
         let locals = Python::with_gil(|py| -> Result<Py<PyDict>, PyErr> {
             Ok([("python_iter", python_iter)].into_py_dict(py).into())
         })