README.md

Astra DB Chatbot Starter

Getting Started with Vercel

1. Create or sign in to your Astra DB account.

2. Create a vector database. Store the database id, region and namespace, and token for later.

3. Create or sign in to your OpenAI account. Store your OpenAI key for later.

4. Click to deploy the app to Vercel: .

   Set your environment variables to the values created in steps 1 and 3.

Set python virtual environment on linux apt-get install python3.11-venv python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate clone repository and install all requirements.txt

Setting up your database and seeding with data

1. Navigate to your IDE, set up the following environment variables:

• ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN=Generate app token for Astra database
• ASTRA_DB_NAMESPACE=existing Astra DB namespace in vector database
• ASTRA_DB_API_ENDPOINT="https://ASTRA_DB_ID-ASTRA_REGION.apps.astra.datastax.com"
• ASTRA_DB_COLLECTION=Name of collection/table to be created in Astra database
• VECTOR_DIMENSION=Collection to be created with number of vector dimensions
• SCRAPED_FILE=Scraped data file location
• OPENAI_API_KEY=api key for OPENAI
• VECTOR_MODEL = Vector Model to be used. Future, models are expected to change due to deprecation and expect new model to be used

2. Install Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the collection creation script:

python populate_db/create_collection.py

4. Run the data loading script:

python populate_db/load_data.py