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/
ask
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curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.pal.ai/v1/ask \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "applicationId": "<string>",
  "prompt": "<string>",
  "shouldGenerateResponse": true,
  "filter": {},
  "": "<string>"
}
'
{
  "searchResults": {
    "documents": {
      "content": "<string>",
      "id": "<string>",
      "title": "<string>",
      "url": "<string>",
      "contentType": "<string>",
      "metadata": {
        "{{metadataKey}}": "<string>"
      }
    }
  },
  "answer": "<string>"
}

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Body

application/json

shouldGenerateResponse: false Fast semantic search, just returns relevant sections and the corresponding Documents from the index of the application

shouldGenerateResponse: true Generates a response using the model provider (defaults to OpenAI), given the additional context of documents found.

​
applicationId
string
required
​
prompt
string
required

The question you want an answer for, or the action you want the assistant to take given the additonal context of relevant documents.

​
shouldGenerateResponse
boolean

Defaults to true. Determines whether the application just generates matches of similar documents or also tries to generate a longer-form synthesized response.

​
filter
object

A set of metadata keys and corresponding values, to only have documents that match those criteria return.

​
string

Response

200 - application/json

OK

​
searchResults
object
required
​
answer
string