ragflow/docs/references/ragflow_api.md

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API reference

RAGFlow offers RESTful APIs for you to integrate its capabilities into third-party applications.

Base URL

https://demo.ragflow.io/api/v1/

Authorization

All of RAGFlow’s RESTFul APIs use API key for authorization, so keep it safe and do not expose it to the front end. Put your API key in the request header.

Authorization: Bearer {API_KEY}

To get your API key:

1. In RAGFlow, click Chat tab in the middle top of the page.
2. Hover over the corresponding dialogue > Chat Bot API to show the chatbot API configuration page.
3. Click Api Key > Create new key to create your API key.
4. Copy and keep your API key safe.

Create dataset

This method creates (news) a dataset for a specific user.

Request

Request URI

Method	Request URI
POST	/dataset

:::note You are required to save the data.id value returned in the response data, which is the session ID for all upcoming conversations. :::

Request parameter

Name	Type	Required	Description
dataset_name	string	Yes	The unique identifier assigned to each newly created dataset. dataset_name must be less than 2 ** 10 characters and cannot be empty. The following character sets are supported: - 26 lowercase English letters (a-z) - 26 uppercase English letters (A-Z) - 10 digits (0-9) - “_“, “-”, “.”

Response

{
  "code": 0, 
  "data": {
    "dataset_name": "kb1",
    "dataset_id": "375e8ada2d3c11ef98f93043d7ee537e"
  }, 
  "message": "success"
}

Get dataset list

This method lists the created datasets for a specific user.

Request

Request URI

Method	Request URI
GET	/dataset

Response

Response parameter

(200, 
{
    "code": 102,
    "data": [
        {
            "avatar": None,
            "chunk_num": 0,
            "create_date": "Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:00:05 GMT",
            "create_time": 1718611205876,
            "created_by": "b48110a0286411ef994a3043d7ee537e",
            "description": None,
            "doc_num": 0,
            "embd_id": "BAAI/bge-large-zh-v1.5",
            "id": "9bd6424a2c7f11ef81b83043d7ee537e",
            "language": "Chinese",
            "name": "dataset3(23)",
            "parser_config": {
                "pages": [
                    [
                        1,
                        1000000
                    ]
                ]
            },
            "parser_id": "naive",
            "permission": "me",
            "similarity_threshold": 0.2,
            "status": "1",
            "tenant_id": "b48110a0286411ef994a3043d7ee537e",
            "token_num": 0,
            "update_date": "Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:00:05 GMT",
            "update_time": 1718611205876,
            "vector_similarity_weight": 0.3
        },
        # ... additional datasets ...
    ],
    "message": "attempt to list datasets"
}
)

Delete dataset

This method deletes a dataset for a specific user.

Request

Request URI

Method	Request URI
DELETE	/dataset/{dataset_id}

Request parameter

Name	Type	Required	Description
dataset_id	string	Yes	The ID of the dataset. Call ‘GET’ /dataset to retrieve the ID.

Response

{
  "success": true, 
  "message": "Dataset deleted successfully!"
}