❓ query

.query() method empowers developers to ask questions and receive relevant answers through a user-friendly query API. Function signature is given below:

Parameters

input_query

str

Question to ask

config

BaseLlmConfig

Configure different llm settings such as prompt, temprature, number_documents etc.

dry_run

bool

The purpose is to test the prompt structure without actually running LLM inference. Defaults to False

where

dict

A dictionary of key-value pairs to filter the chunks from the vector database. Defaults to None

citations

bool

Return citations along with the LLM answer. Defaults to False

Returns

answer

str | tuple

If citations=False, return a stringified answer to the question asked.
If citations=True, returns a tuple with answer and citations respectively.

Usage

With citations

If you want to get the answer to question and return both answer and citations, use the following code snippet:

With Citations

from embedchain import App

# Initialize app
app = App()

# Add data source
app.add("https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk")

# Get relevant answer for your query
answer, sources = app.query("What is the net worth of Elon?", citations=True)
print(answer)
# Answer: The net worth of Elon Musk is $221.9 billion.

print(sources)
# [
#    (
#        'Elon Musk PROFILEElon MuskCEO, Tesla$247.1B$2.3B (0.96%)Real Time Net Worthas of 12/7/23 ...',
#        {
#           'url': 'https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk', 
#           'score': 0.89,
#           ...
#        }
#    ),
#    (
#        '74% of the company, which is now called X.Wealth HistoryHOVER TO REVEAL NET WORTH BY YEARForbes ...',
#        {
#           'url': 'https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk', 
#           'score': 0.81,
#           ...
#        }
#    ),
#    (
#        'founded in 2002, is worth nearly $150 billion after a $750 million tender offer in June 2023 ...',
#        {
#           'url': 'https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk', 
#           'score': 0.73,
#           ...
#        }
#    )
# ]

When citations=True, note that the returned sources are a list of tuples where each tuple has two elements (in the following order):

1. source chunk
2. dictionary with metadata about the source chunk
   • url: url of the source
   • doc_id: document id (used for book keeping purposes)
   • score: score of the source chunk with respect to the question
   • other metadata you might have added at the time of adding the source

Without citations

If you just want to return answers and don’t want to return citations, you can use the following example:

Without Citations

from embedchain import App

# Initialize app
app = App()

# Add data source
app.add("https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk")

# Get relevant answer for your query
answer = app.query("What is the net worth of Elon?")
print(answer)
# Answer: The net worth of Elon Musk is $221.9 billion.