txtai Vector Store
If you’re opening this Notebook on colab, you will probably need to install LlamaIndex 🦙.
%pip install llama-index-vector-stores-txtai!pip install llama-indexCreating a Faiss Index
Section titled “Creating a Faiss Index”import loggingimport sys
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.INFO)logging.getLogger().addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout))import txtai
# Create txtai ann indextxtai_index = txtai.ann.ANNFactory.create({"backend": "numpy"})Load documents, build the VectorStoreIndex
Section titled “Load documents, build the VectorStoreIndex”from llama_index.core import ( SimpleDirectoryReader, load_index_from_storage, VectorStoreIndex, StorageContext,)from llama_index.vector_stores.txtai import TxtaiVectorStorefrom IPython.display import Markdown, displayDownload Data
!mkdir -p 'data/paul_graham/'!wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/run-llama/llama_index/main/docs/examples/data/paul_graham/paul_graham_essay.txt' -O 'data/paul_graham/paul_graham_essay.txt'# load documentsdocuments = SimpleDirectoryReader("./data/paul_graham/").load_data()vector_store = TxtaiVectorStore(txtai_index=txtai_index)storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(vector_store=vector_store)index = VectorStoreIndex.from_documents( documents, storage_context=storage_context)# save index to diskindex.storage_context.persist()# load index from diskvector_store = TxtaiVectorStore.from_persist_dir("./storage")storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults( vector_store=vector_store, persist_dir="./storage")index = load_index_from_storage(storage_context=storage_context)Query Index
Section titled “Query Index”# set Logging to DEBUG for more detailed outputsquery_engine = index.as_query_engine()response = query_engine.query("What did the author do growing up?")display(Markdown(f"<b>{response}</b>"))# set Logging to DEBUG for more detailed outputsquery_engine = index.as_query_engine()response = query_engine.query( "What did the author do after his time at Y Combinator?")display(Markdown(f"<b>{response}</b>"))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 — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md
- Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — 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/