# PineconeHybridSearchRetriever

> **Class** in `langchain_community`

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

`Pinecone Hybrid Search` retriever.

## Signature

```python
PineconeHybridSearchRetriever()
```

## Extends

- `BaseRetriever`

## Properties

- `embeddings`
- `sparse_encoder`
- `index`
- `top_k`
- `alpha`
- `namespace`
- `text_key`
- `model_config`

## Methods

- [`add_texts()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/retrievers/pinecone_hybrid_search/PineconeHybridSearchRetriever/add_texts)
- [`validate_environment()`](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-community/retrievers/pinecone_hybrid_search/PineconeHybridSearchRetriever/validate_environment)

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[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain-community/blob/4b280287bd55b99b44db2dd849f02d66c89534d5/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/pinecone_hybrid_search.py#L102)