nautilusdb-cli

A command-line tool for NautilusDB, a fully-managed, cloud-native vector search service.

NautilusDB is currently in public alpha. We're actively improving the product and releasing new features and we'd love to hear your feedback! Please take a moment to fill out this feedback form to help us understand your use-case better.

By default, all collections are subject to permanent deletion after 2 weeks. Please let us know if you need to keep it for longer via the feedback form.

Quickstart

You can try out NautilusDB right away. We have prepared a special public collection openai-web that can answer questions about the contents of www.openai.com

nautiluscli ask openai-web "what is red team?"

Installation

Install a released NautilusDB cli from pip.

python3 version >= 3.10 is required

pip3 install nautiluscli

Examples:

Create a new API key

You can create a new API key and set it in NAUTILUSDB_API_KEY environment variable. NautilusDB will use this key to authorize access to collections.

nautiluscli create-api-key
export NAUTILUSDB_API_KEY='<key>'

Check the current CLI configuration

nautiluscli info

Create a new Collection

Create a new collection myCollection in the shared demo account. A collection will be created that is only accessible to the configured API key.

 nautiluscli create-collection myCollection

List Collections

See the list of Collection accessible to you, including myCollection that you just created.

nautiluscli list-collections

Upload file from URL

Index a PDF into myCollection. In this example, we will index the original research paper on Transformers.

 nautiluscli upload-file myCollection https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf

Upload local file

Alternatively, upload a PDF from local file system for indexing.

nautiluscli upload-file myCollection README.md

Ask questions

You can now ask questions within the context of a collection and get answers.

nautiluscli ask myCollection "what is a transformer?"

Delete the Collection

You can optionally delete the collection. Deletions are non-reversible.

nautiluscli delete-collection myCollection