> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Pinecone integration

> Integrate with the Pinecone vector store using LangChain Python.

> [Pinecone](https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview) is a vector database with broad functionality.

This notebook shows how to use functionality related to the `Pinecone` vector database.

## Setup

To use the `PineconeVectorStore` you first need to install the partner package, as well as the other packages used throughout this notebook.

```python theme={null}
pip install -qU langchain langchain-pinecone langchain-openai
```

Migration note: if you are migrating from the `langchain_community.vectorstores` implementation of Pinecone, you may need to remove your `pinecone-client` v2 dependency before installing `langchain-pinecone`, which relies on `pinecone-client` v6.

### Credentials

Create a new Pinecone account, or sign into your existing one, and create an API key to use in this notebook.

```python theme={null}
import getpass
import os

from pinecone import Pinecone

if not os.getenv("PINECONE_API_KEY"):
    os.environ["PINECONE_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your Pinecone API key: ")

pinecone_api_key = os.environ.get("PINECONE_API_KEY")

pc = Pinecone(api_key=pinecone_api_key)
```

If you want to get automated tracing of your model calls you can also set your [LangSmith](/langsmith/observability) API key by uncommenting below:

```python theme={null}
os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your LangSmith API key: ")
os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"
```

## Initialization

Before initializing our vector store, let's connect to a Pinecone index. If one named `index_name` doesn't exist, it will be created.

```python theme={null}
from pinecone import ServerlessSpec

index_name = "langchain-test-index"  # change if desired

if not pc.has_index(index_name):
    pc.create_index(
        name=index_name,
        dimension=1536,
        metric="cosine",
        spec=ServerlessSpec(cloud="aws", region="us-east-1"),
    )

index = pc.Index(index_name)
```

```python theme={null}
from langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddings

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings(model="text-embedding-3-small")
```

```python theme={null}
from langchain_pinecone import PineconeVectorStore

vector_store = PineconeVectorStore(index=index, embedding=embeddings)
```

## Manage vector store

Once you have created your vector store, we can interact with it by adding and deleting different items.

### Add items to vector store

We can add items to our vector store by using the `add_documents` function.

```python theme={null}
from uuid import uuid4

from langchain_core.documents import Document

document_1 = Document(
    page_content="I had chocolate chip pancakes and scrambled eggs for breakfast this morning.",
    metadata={"source": "tweet"},
)

document_2 = Document(
    page_content="The weather forecast for tomorrow is cloudy and overcast, with a high of 62 degrees.",
    metadata={"source": "news"},
)

document_3 = Document(
    page_content="Building an exciting new project with LangChain - come check it out!",
    metadata={"source": "tweet"},
)

document_4 = Document(
    page_content="Robbers broke into the city bank and stole $1 million in cash.",
    metadata={"source": "news"},
)

document_5 = Document(
    page_content="Wow! That was an amazing movie. I can't wait to see it again.",
    metadata={"source": "tweet"},
)

document_6 = Document(
    page_content="Is the new iPhone worth the price? Read this review to find out.",
    metadata={"source": "website"},
)

document_7 = Document(
    page_content="The top 10 soccer players in the world right now.",
    metadata={"source": "website"},
)

document_8 = Document(
    page_content="LangGraph is the best framework for building stateful, agentic applications!",
    metadata={"source": "tweet"},
)

document_9 = Document(
    page_content="The stock market is down 500 points today due to fears of a recession.",
    metadata={"source": "news"},
)

document_10 = Document(
    page_content="I have a bad feeling I am going to get deleted :(",
    metadata={"source": "tweet"},
)

documents = [
    document_1,
    document_2,
    document_3,
    document_4,
    document_5,
    document_6,
    document_7,
    document_8,
    document_9,
    document_10,
]
uuids = [str(uuid4()) for _ in range(len(documents))]
vector_store.add_documents(documents=documents, ids=uuids)
```

### Delete items from vector store

```python theme={null}
vector_store.delete(ids=[uuids[-1]])
```

## Query vector store

Once your vector store has been created and the relevant documents have been added you will most likely wish to query it during the running of your chain or agent.

### Query directly

Performing a simple similarity search can be done as follows:

```python theme={null}
results = vector_store.similarity_search(
    "LangChain provides abstractions to make working with LLMs easy",
    k=2,
    filter={"source": "tweet"},
)
for res in results:
    print(f"* {res.page_content} [{res.metadata}]")
```

#### Similarity search with score

You can also search with score:

```python theme={null}
results = vector_store.similarity_search_with_score(
    "Will it be hot tomorrow?", k=1, filter={"source": "news"}
)
for res, score in results:
    print(f"* [SIM={score:3f}] {res.page_content} [{res.metadata}]")
```

#### Other search methods

There are more search methods (such as MMR) not listed in this notebook, to find all of them be sure to read the [API reference](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-pinecone/vectorstores/PineconeVectorStore).

### Query by turning into retriever

You can also transform the vector store into a retriever for easier usage in your chains.

```python theme={null}
retriever = vector_store.as_retriever(
    search_type="similarity_score_threshold",
    search_kwargs={"k": 1, "score_threshold": 0.4},
)
retriever.invoke("Stealing from the bank is a crime", filter={"source": "news"})
```

## Usage for retrieval-augmented generation

For guides on how to use this vector store for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), see the following sections:

* [Retrieval docs](/oss/python/langchain/retrieval)
* [Build a RAG app with LangChain](/oss/python/langchain/rag)
* [Agentic RAG](/oss/python/langgraph/agentic-rag)

***

## API reference

For detailed documentation of all features and configurations head to the [API reference](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-pinecone/vectorstores/PineconeVectorStore).

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