# AzureCognitiveSearchRetriever

> **Class** in `langchain_community`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/retrievers/azure_ai_search/AzureCognitiveSearchRetriever)

`Azure Cognitive Search` service retriever.
This version of the retriever will soon be
depreciated. Please switch to AzureAISearchRetriever

## Signature

```python
AzureCognitiveSearchRetriever()
```

## Extends

- `AzureAISearchRetriever`

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[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain-community/blob/4b280287bd55b99b44db2dd849f02d66c89534d5/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/azure_ai_search.py#L222)