langchain_community.vectorstores.meilisearch.Meilisearch¶

class langchain_community.vectorstores.meilisearch.Meilisearch(embedding: Embeddings, client: Optional[Client] = None, url: Optional[str] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, index_name: str = 'langchain-demo', text_key: str = 'text', metadata_key: str = 'metadata', *, embedders: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None)[source]¶

Meilisearch vector store.

To use this, you need to have meilisearch python package installed, and a running Meilisearch instance.

To learn more about Meilisearch Python, refer to the in-depth Meilisearch Python documentation: https://meilisearch.github.io/meilisearch-python/.

See the following documentation for how to run a Meilisearch instance: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/getting_started/quick_start.

Example

from langchain_community.vectorstores import Meilisearch
from langchain_community.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
import meilisearch

# api_key is optional; provide it if your meilisearch instance requires it
client = meilisearch.Client(url='http://127.0.0.1:7700', api_key='***')
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
embedders = {
    "theEmbedderName": {
        "source": "userProvided",
        "dimensions": "1536"
    }
}
vectorstore = Meilisearch(
    embedding=embeddings,
    embedders=embedders,
    client=client,
    index_name='langchain_demo',
    text_key='text')

Initialize with Meilisearch client.

Attributes

embeddings

Access the query embedding object if available.

Methods

__init__(embedding[, client, url, api_key, ...])

Initialize with Meilisearch client.

aadd_documents(documents, **kwargs)

Async run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

aadd_texts(texts[, metadatas])

Async run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

add_documents(documents, **kwargs)

Add or update documents in the vectorstore.

add_texts(texts[, metadatas, ids, embedder_name])

Run more texts through the embedding and add them to the vector store.

adelete([ids])

Async delete by vector ID or other criteria.

afrom_documents(documents, embedding, **kwargs)

Async return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

afrom_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas])

Async return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

aget_by_ids(ids, /)

Async get documents by their IDs.

amax_marginal_relevance_search(query[, k, ...])

Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(...)

Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

as_retriever(**kwargs)

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

asearch(query, search_type, **kwargs)

Async return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.

asimilarity_search(query[, k])

Async return docs most similar to query.

asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k])

Async return docs most similar to embedding vector.

asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

Async return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

asimilarity_search_with_score(*args, **kwargs)

Async run similarity search with distance.

delete([ids])

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

from_documents(documents, embedding, **kwargs)

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

from_texts(texts, embedding[, metadatas, ...])

Construct Meilisearch wrapper from raw documents.

get_by_ids(ids, /)

Get documents by their IDs.

max_marginal_relevance_search(query[, k, ...])

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(...)

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

search(query, search_type, **kwargs)

Return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.

similarity_search(query[, k, filter, ...])

Return meilisearch documents most similar to the query.

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding[, k, ...])

Return meilisearch documents most similar to embedding vector.

similarity_search_by_vector_with_scores(...)

Return meilisearch documents most similar to embedding vector.

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query)

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

similarity_search_with_score(query[, k, ...])

Return meilisearch documents most similar to the query, along with scores.

Parameters
  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • client (Optional[Client]) –

  • url (Optional[str]) –

  • api_key (Optional[str]) –

  • index_name (str) –

  • text_key (str) –

  • metadata_key (str) –

  • embedders (Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) –

__init__(embedding: Embeddings, client: Optional[Client] = None, url: Optional[str] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, index_name: str = 'langchain-demo', text_key: str = 'text', metadata_key: str = 'metadata', *, embedders: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None)[source]¶

Initialize with Meilisearch client.

Parameters
  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • client (Optional[Client]) –

  • url (Optional[str]) –

  • api_key (Optional[str]) –

  • index_name (str) –

  • text_key (str) –

  • metadata_key (str) –

  • embedders (Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) –

async aadd_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) List[str]¶

Async run more documents through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters
  • documents (List[Document]) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Raises

ValueError – If the number of IDs does not match the number of documents.

Return type

List[str]

async aadd_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) List[str]¶

Async run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.

Parameters
  • texts (Iterable[str]) – Iterable of strings to add to the vectorstore.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts. Default is None.

  • **kwargs (Any) – vectorstore specific parameters.

Returns

List of ids from adding the texts into the vectorstore.

Raises
  • ValueError – If the number of metadatas does not match the number of texts.

  • ValueError – If the number of ids does not match the number of texts.

Return type

List[str]

add_documents(documents: List[Document], **kwargs: Any) List[str]¶

Add or update documents in the vectorstore.

Parameters
  • documents (List[Document]) – Documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments. if kwargs contains ids and documents contain ids, the ids in the kwargs will receive precedence.

Returns

List of IDs of the added texts.

Raises

ValueError – If the number of ids does not match the number of documents.

Return type

List[str]

add_texts(texts: Iterable[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, embedder_name: Optional[str] = 'default', **kwargs: Any) List[str][source]¶

Run more texts through the embedding and add them to the vector store.

Parameters
  • texts (Iterable[str]) – Iterable of strings/text to add to the vectorstore.

  • embedder_name (Optional[str]) – Name of the embedder. Defaults to “default”.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Optional list of metadata. Defaults to None.

  • Optional[List[str]] (ids) – Optional list of IDs. Defaults to None.

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of IDs of the texts added to the vectorstore.

Return type

List[str]

async adelete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) Optional[bool]¶

Async delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters
  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete. If None, delete all. Default is None.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

async classmethod afrom_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) VST¶

Async return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters
  • documents (List[Document]) – List of Documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • embedding (Embeddings) – Embedding function to use.

  • kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns

VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Return type

VectorStore

async classmethod afrom_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, **kwargs: Any) VST¶

Async return VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Parameters
  • texts (List[str]) – Texts to add to the vectorstore.

  • embedding (Embeddings) – Embedding function to use.

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) – Optional list of metadatas associated with the texts. Default is None.

  • kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns

VectorStore initialized from texts and embeddings.

Return type

VectorStore

async aget_by_ids(ids: Sequence[str], /) List[Document]¶

Async get documents by their IDs.

The returned documents are expected to have the ID field set to the ID of the document in the vector store.

Fewer documents may be returned than requested if some IDs are not found or if there are duplicated IDs.

Users should not assume that the order of the returned documents matches the order of the input IDs. Instead, users should rely on the ID field of the returned documents.

This method should NOT raise exceptions if no documents are found for some IDs.

Parameters

ids (Sequence[str]) – List of ids to retrieve.

Returns

List of Documents.

Return type

List[Document]

New in version 0.2.11.

Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

async amax_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Async return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters
  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

as_retriever(**kwargs: Any) VectorStoreRetriever¶

Return VectorStoreRetriever initialized from this VectorStore.

Parameters

**kwargs (Any) –

Keyword arguments to pass to the search function. Can include: search_type (Optional[str]): Defines the type of search that

the Retriever should perform. Can be “similarity” (default), “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

search_kwargs (Optional[Dict]): Keyword arguments to pass to the
search function. Can include things like:

k: Amount of documents to return (Default: 4) score_threshold: Minimum relevance threshold

for similarity_score_threshold

fetch_k: Amount of documents to pass to MMR algorithm

(Default: 20)

lambda_mult: Diversity of results returned by MMR;

1 for minimum diversity and 0 for maximum. (Default: 0.5)

filter: Filter by document metadata

Returns

Retriever class for VectorStore.

Return type

VectorStoreRetriever

Examples:

# Retrieve more documents with higher diversity
# Useful if your dataset has many similar documents
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 6, 'lambda_mult': 0.25}
)

# Fetch more documents for the MMR algorithm to consider
# But only return the top 5
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="mmr",
    search_kwargs={'k': 5, 'fetch_k': 50}
)

# Only retrieve documents that have a relevance score
# Above a certain threshold
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_type="similarity_score_threshold",
    search_kwargs={'score_threshold': 0.8}
)

# Only get the single most similar document from the dataset
docsearch.as_retriever(search_kwargs={'k': 1})

# Use a filter to only retrieve documents from a specific paper
docsearch.as_retriever(
    search_kwargs={'filter': {'paper_title':'GPT-4 Technical Report'}}
)
async asearch(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Async return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Input text.

  • search_type (str) – Type of search to perform. Can be “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query.

Raises

ValueError – If search_type is not one of “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

Return type

List[Document]

Async return docs most similar to query.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Input text.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query.

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Async return docs most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters
  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query vector.

Return type

List[Document]

async asimilarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Async return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Input text.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs (Any) –

    kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

    filter the resulting set of retrieved docs

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score)

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

async asimilarity_search_with_score(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Async run similarity search with distance.

Parameters
  • *args (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score).

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

delete(ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, **kwargs: Any) Optional[bool]¶

Delete by vector ID or other criteria.

Parameters
  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) – List of ids to delete. If None, delete all. Default is None.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Other keyword arguments that subclasses might use.

Returns

True if deletion is successful, False otherwise, None if not implemented.

Return type

Optional[bool]

classmethod from_documents(documents: List[Document], embedding: Embeddings, **kwargs: Any) VST¶

Return VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Parameters
  • documents (List[Document]) – List of Documents to add to the vectorstore.

  • embedding (Embeddings) – Embedding function to use.

  • kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments.

Returns

VectorStore initialized from documents and embeddings.

Return type

VectorStore

classmethod from_texts(texts: List[str], embedding: Embeddings, metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None, client: Optional[Client] = None, url: Optional[str] = None, api_key: Optional[str] = None, index_name: str = 'langchain-demo', ids: Optional[List[str]] = None, text_key: Optional[str] = 'text', metadata_key: Optional[str] = 'metadata', embedders: Dict[str, Any] = {}, embedder_name: Optional[str] = 'default', **kwargs: Any) Meilisearch[source]¶

Construct Meilisearch wrapper from raw documents.

This is a user-friendly interface that:
  1. Embeds documents.

  2. Adds the documents to a provided Meilisearch index.

This is intended to be a quick way to get started.

Example

from langchain_community.vectorstores import Meilisearch
from langchain_community.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
import meilisearch

# The environment should be the one specified next to the API key
# in your Meilisearch console
client = meilisearch.Client(url='http://127.0.0.1:7700', api_key='***')
embedding = OpenAIEmbeddings()
embedders: Embedders index setting.
embedder_name: Name of the embedder. Defaults to "default".
docsearch = Meilisearch.from_texts(
    client=client,
    embedding=embedding,
)
Parameters
  • texts (List[str]) –

  • embedding (Embeddings) –

  • metadatas (Optional[List[dict]]) –

  • client (Optional[Client]) –

  • url (Optional[str]) –

  • api_key (Optional[str]) –

  • index_name (str) –

  • ids (Optional[List[str]]) –

  • text_key (Optional[str]) –

  • metadata_key (Optional[str]) –

  • embedders (Dict[str, Any]) –

  • embedder_name (Optional[str]) –

  • kwargs (Any) –

Return type

Meilisearch

get_by_ids(ids: Sequence[str], /) List[Document]¶

Get documents by their IDs.

The returned documents are expected to have the ID field set to the ID of the document in the vector store.

Fewer documents may be returned than requested if some IDs are not found or if there are duplicated IDs.

Users should not assume that the order of the returned documents matches the order of the input IDs. Instead, users should rely on the ID field of the returned documents.

This method should NOT raise exceptions if no documents are found for some IDs.

Parameters

ids (Sequence[str]) – List of ids to retrieve.

Returns

List of Documents.

Return type

List[Document]

New in version 0.2.11.

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Text to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

max_marginal_relevance_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, fetch_k: int = 20, lambda_mult: float = 0.5, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs selected using the maximal marginal relevance.

Maximal marginal relevance optimizes for similarity to query AND diversity among selected documents.

Parameters
  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up documents similar to.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • fetch_k (int) – Number of Documents to fetch to pass to MMR algorithm. Default is 20.

  • lambda_mult (float) – Number between 0 and 1 that determines the degree of diversity among the results with 0 corresponding to maximum diversity and 1 to minimum diversity. Defaults to 0.5.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents selected by maximal marginal relevance.

Return type

List[Document]

search(query: str, search_type: str, **kwargs: Any) List[Document]¶

Return docs most similar to query using a specified search type.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Input text

  • search_type (str) – Type of search to perform. Can be “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

  • **kwargs (Any) – Arguments to pass to the search method.

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query.

Raises

ValueError – If search_type is not one of “similarity”, “mmr”, or “similarity_score_threshold”.

Return type

List[Document]

Return meilisearch documents most similar to the query.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Query text for which to find similar documents.

  • embedder_name (Optional[str]) – Name of the embedder to be used. Defaults to “default”.

  • k (int) – Number of documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query text and score for each.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector(embedding: List[float], k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, embedder_name: Optional[str] = 'default', **kwargs: Any) List[Document][source]¶

Return meilisearch documents most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters
  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up similar documents.

  • embedder_name (Optional[str]) – Name of the embedder to be used. Defaults to “default”.

  • k (int) – Number of documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query

vector and score for each.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_by_vector_with_scores(embedding: List[float], embedder_name: Optional[str] = 'default', k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]][source]¶

Return meilisearch documents most similar to embedding vector.

Parameters
  • embedding (List[float]) – Embedding to look up similar documents.

  • embedder_name (Optional[str]) – Name of the embedder to be used. Defaults to “default”.

  • k (int) – Number of documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query

vector and score for each.

Return type

List[Document]

similarity_search_with_relevance_scores(query: str, k: int = 4, **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]]¶

Return docs and relevance scores in the range [0, 1].

0 is dissimilar, 1 is most similar.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Input text.

  • k (int) – Number of Documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • **kwargs (Any) –

    kwargs to be passed to similarity search. Should include: score_threshold: Optional, a floating point value between 0 to 1 to

    filter the resulting set of retrieved docs.

Returns

List of Tuples of (doc, similarity_score).

Return type

List[Tuple[Document, float]]

similarity_search_with_score(query: str, k: int = 4, filter: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None, embedder_name: Optional[str] = 'default', **kwargs: Any) List[Tuple[Document, float]][source]¶

Return meilisearch documents most similar to the query, along with scores.

Parameters
  • query (str) – Query text for which to find similar documents.

  • embedder_name (Optional[str]) – Name of the embedder to be used. Defaults to “default”.

  • k (int) – Number of documents to return. Defaults to 4.

  • filter (Optional[Dict[str, str]]) – Filter by metadata. Defaults to None.

  • kwargs (Any) –

Returns

List of Documents most similar to the query text and score for each.

Return type

List[Document]

Examples using Meilisearch¶