Framework integrations

LlamaCloud works seamlessly with our open source python framework and typescript framework.

You can use LlamaCloudIndex as a drop-in replace of the VectorStoreIndex. It offers better performance out-of-the-box, while simplifying the setup & maintenance.

You can either create an index via the framework, or connect to an existing index (e.g. created via the no-code UI).

Create new index

In comparison to creating new index via the no-code UI, you can create index from Document objects via the framework integration. This gives you more low level control over:

1. how you want to pre-process your data, and
2. using any data loaders from LlamaHub.

Note that in this case, the data loading will be run locally (i.e. along with the framework code). For larger scale ingestion, it's better to create the index via no-code UI or use the files or data sources API via REST API & Clients.

Python Framework

Load documents

from llama_index.core import SimpleDirectoryReader

documents = SimpleDirectoryReader("data").load_data()

Create LlamaCloudIndex

import os
from llama_index.indices.managed.llama_cloud import LlamaCloudIndex

os.environ[
    "LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY"
] = "llx-..."  # can provide API-key in env or in the constructor later on

index = LlamaCloudIndex.from_documents(
    documents,
    "my_first_index",
    project_name="Default",
    api_key="llx-...",
    verbose=True,
)

TypeScript Framework

Load documents

import { SimpleDirectoryReader } from "llamaindex";

const documents = await new SimpleDirectoryReader().loadData({
  directoryPath: "node_modules/llamaindex/examples"
});

Create LlamaCloudIndex

import { LlamaCloudIndex } from "llamaindex";

const index = await LlamaCloudIndex.fromDocuments({
  documents: documents,
  name: "example-pipeline",
  projectName: "Default",
  apiKey: "llx-..."
});

Connect to existing index

Python Framework

Connect to an existing index

import os

os.environ[
    "LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY"
] = "llx-..."  # can provide API-key in env or in the constructor later on

from llama_index.indices.managed.llama_cloud import LlamaCloudIndex

index = LlamaCloudIndex("my_first_index", project_name="Default")

TypeScript Framework

Connect to an existing index

const index = new LlamaCloudIndex({
  name: "example-pipeline",
  projectName: "Default",
  apiKey: process.env.LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY, // can provide API-key in the constructor or in the env
});

Use index in RAG/agent application

Python Framework

retriever = index.as_retriever()
nodes = retriever.retrieve("Example query")
...

query_engine = index.as_query_engine()
answer = query_engine.query("Example query")
...

chat_engine = index.as_chat_engine()
message = chat_engine.chat("Example query")
...

See full framework documentation

TypeScript Framework

// query engine
const queryEngine = index.asQueryEngine({
  similarityTopK: 5,
});

const answer = await queryEngine.query({
  query: "Example query",
});

// retrieval
const retriever = index.asRetriever({
  similarityTopK: 5,
});

const nodes = await retriever.retrieve({
  query: "Example query",
});

// chat
import { ContextChatEngine } from "llamaindex";

const retriever = index.asRetriever({
  similarityTopK: 5,
});

const chatEngine = new ContextChatEngine({ retriever });

const responder = await chatEngine.chat({ message: query });