Vectara

Vectara Corpora API

Create, list, update, and delete corpora that hold indexed documents.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 7

GET /v2/corpora List Corpora #

POST /v2/corpora Create A Corpus #

GET /v2/corpora/{corpus_key} Retrieve Corpus Metadata #

PATCH /v2/corpora/{corpus_key} Update A Corpus #

DELETE /v2/corpora/{corpus_key} Delete A Corpus #

POST /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/reset Reset A Corpus #

POST /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/compute_size Compute Corpus Size #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Vectara REST Corpora API
  description: 'Vectara REST API v2 is the unified interface for the Vectara Retrieval Augmented

    Generation (RAG) platform.'
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Vectara Support
    url: https://docs.vectara.com/docs/support
  license:
    name: Proprietary
servers:
- url: https://api.vectara.io
  description: Vectara REST API production base URL
- url: https://auth.vectara.io
  description: Vectara OAuth 2.0 token endpoint
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- OAuth2: []
tags:
- name: Corpora
  description: Create, list, update, and delete corpora that hold indexed documents.
paths:
  /v2/corpora:
    get:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: List Corpora
      operationId: listCorpora
      parameters:
      - in: query
        name: limit
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
      - in: query
        name: page_key
        schema:
          type: string
      - in: query
        name: filter
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of corpora.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListCorporaResponse'
    post:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: Create A Corpus
      operationId: createCorpus
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCorpusRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Corpus created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Corpus'
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    get:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: Retrieve Corpus Metadata
      operationId: getCorpus
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Corpus metadata.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Corpus'
    patch:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: Update A Corpus
      operationId: updateCorpus
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateCorpusRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Corpus updated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Corpus'
    delete:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: Delete A Corpus
      operationId: deleteCorpus
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Corpus deleted.
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/reset:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    post:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: Reset A Corpus
      description: Remove all documents from the corpus while keeping the corpus itself.
      operationId: resetCorpus
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Corpus reset.
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/compute_size:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    post:
      tags:
      - Corpora
      summary: Compute Corpus Size
      operationId: computeCorpusSize
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Corpus size information.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  size_bytes:
                    type: integer
                  document_count:
                    type: integer
components:
  schemas:
    PageMetadata:
      type: object
      properties:
        page_key:
          type: string
        next_page_key:
          type: string
    Corpus:
      type: object
      properties:
        key:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        queries_are_answers:
          type: boolean
        documents_are_questions:
          type: boolean
        encoder_id:
          type: string
        filter_attributes:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/FilterAttribute'
        custom_dimensions:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              name:
                type: string
              description:
                type: string
        enabled:
          type: boolean
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    UpdateCorpusRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        enabled:
          type: boolean
    CreateCorpusRequest:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Corpus'
      - type: object
        required:
        - key
        - name
    ListCorporaResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        corpora:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Corpus'
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageMetadata'
    FilterAttribute:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        level:
          type: string
          enum:
          - document
          - document_part
        indexed:
          type: boolean
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - text
          - integer
          - real
          - boolean
  parameters:
    CorpusKey:
      in: path
      name: corpus_key
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: The unique key identifying a corpus.
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: Vectara API key passed in the `x-api-key` header.
    OAuth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow.
      flows:
        clientCredentials:
          tokenUrl: https://auth.vectara.io/oauth2/token
          scopes: {}

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