Vectara

Vectara Query API

Semantic, keyword, and hybrid queries with optional grounded generation.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 3

POST /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/query Query A Single Corpus #
POST /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/search Search A Single Corpus #
POST /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/queries Run A Multi-Stage Query #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.vectara.com/docs/rest-api/
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Authentication
https://docs.vectara.com/docs/learn/authentication/oauth-2
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Documentation
https://docs.vectara.com/docs/api-reference/admin-apis/corpora
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Documentation
https://docs.vectara.com/docs/api-reference/indexing-apis/indexing
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Documentation
https://docs.vectara.com/docs/api-reference/search-apis/search
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Documentation
https://docs.vectara.com/docs/api-reference/agents-api/agents

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/openapi/vectara-query-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/json-schema/vectara-corpus-schema.json
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JSONStructure
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/json-structure/vectara-corpus-structure.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/json-schema/vectara-document-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/json-schema/vectara-query-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/json-schema/vectara-agent-schema.json

Other Resources

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JSONLD
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vectara/refs/heads/main/json-ld/vectara-context.jsonld

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OpenAPI Specification

vectara-query-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Vectara REST Query 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: Query
  description: Semantic, keyword, and hybrid queries with optional grounded generation.
paths:
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/query:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    post:
      tags:
      - Query
      summary: Query A Single Corpus
      operationId: queryCorpus
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Query results with optional grounded generation.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/search:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    post:
      tags:
      - Query
      summary: Search A Single Corpus
      operationId: searchCorpus
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
  /v2/corpora/{corpus_key}/queries:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CorpusKey'
    post:
      tags:
      - Query
      summary: Run A Multi-Stage Query
      operationId: queriesCorpus
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Query results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResponse'
components:
  parameters:
    CorpusKey:
      in: path
      name: corpus_key
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: The unique key identifying a corpus.
  schemas:
    QueryRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - query
      properties:
        query:
          type: string
          description: The natural-language query string.
        search:
          type: object
          properties:
            limit:
              type: integer
              default: 10
            offset:
              type: integer
              default: 0
            metadata_filter:
              type: string
            lexical_interpolation:
              type: number
            reranker:
              type: object
              properties:
                type:
                  type: string
        generation:
          type: object
          properties:
            generation_preset_name:
              type: string
            max_used_search_results:
              type: integer
            response_language:
              type: string
            enable_factual_consistency_score:
              type: boolean
        stream_response:
          type: boolean
    QueryResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        summary:
          type: string
        factual_consistency_score:
          type: number
        search_results:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              text:
                type: string
              score:
                type: number
              document_id:
                type: string
              part_metadata:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
              document_metadata:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
  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: {}