Skip to content

Mbox Reader

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

%pip install llama-index-readers-mbox
!pip install llama-index
%env OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-************
from llama_index.readers.mbox import MboxReader
from llama_index.core import VectorStoreIndex
documents = MboxReader().load_data(
"mbox_data_dir", max_count=1000
) # Returns list of documents
index = VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(
documents
) # Initialize index with documents
query_engine = index.as_query_engine()
res = query_engine.query("When did i have that call with the London office?")
> [query] Total LLM token usage: 100 tokens
> [query] Total embedding token usage: 10 tokens
res.response
> There is a call scheduled with the London office at 12am GMT on the 10th of February.
Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access. - Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt - Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL β€” e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md - Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ β€” search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters. - A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/shared/mcp/