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Metadata Extraction

You can use LLMs to automate metadata extraction with our Metadata Extractor modules.

Our metadata extractor modules include the following “feature extractors”:

  • SummaryExtractor - automatically extracts a summary over a set of Nodes
  • QuestionsAnsweredExtractor - extracts a set of questions that each Node can answer
  • TitleExtractor - extracts a title over the context of each Node by document and combine them
  • KeywordExtractor - extracts keywords over the context of each Node

Then you can chain the Metadata Extractors with the IngestionPipeline to extract metadata from a set of documents.

import { Document, IngestionPipeline, TitleExtractor, QuestionsAnsweredExtractor } from "llamaindex";
import { OpenAI } from "@llamaindex/openai";
async function main() {
const pipeline = new IngestionPipeline({
transformations: [
new TitleExtractor(),
new QuestionsAnsweredExtractor({
questions: 5,
}),
],
});
const nodes = await pipeline.run({
documents: [
new Document({ text: "I am 10 years old. John is 20 years old." }),
],
});
for (const node of nodes) {
console.log(node.metadata);
}
}
main().then(() => console.log("done"));
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/for-agents/mcp/ - Other LlamaIndex tooling for agents — the LlamaParse Platform MCP server, agent skills and plugins, and the n8n node — is mapped at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/for-agents/