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Chroma Reader

If you’re opening this Notebook on colab, you will probably need to install LlamaIndex 🦙.

%pip install llama-index-readers-chroma
!pip install llama-index
import logging
import sys
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.INFO)
logging.getLogger().addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout))
from llama_index.readers.chroma import ChromaReader
# The chroma reader loads data from a persisted Chroma collection.
# This requires a collection name and a persist directory.
reader = ChromaReader(
collection_name="chroma_collection",
persist_directory="examples/data_connectors/chroma_collection",
)
# the query_vector is an embedding representation of your query.
# Example query vector:
# query_vector=[0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3]
query_vector = [n1, n2, n3, ...]
# NOTE: Required args are collection_name, query_vector.
# See the Python client: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
# for more details.
documents = reader.load_data(
collection_name="demo", query_vector=query_vector, limit=5
)
from llama_index.core import SummaryIndex
index = SummaryIndex.from_documents(documents)
# set Logging to DEBUG for more detailed outputs
query_engine = index.as_query_engine()
response = query_engine.query("<query_text>")
display(Markdown(f"<b>{response}</b>"))
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