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Pythonlangchain-corevectorstoresbaseVectorStoreadd_documents

Method●Since v0.2

add_documents

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add_documents(
  self,
  documents: list[Document],
  **kwargs: Any = {}
)

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Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`documents`*	`list[Document]`
`**kwargs`	`Any`	Default:`{}`

Add or update documents in the VectorStore.

Documents to add to the VectorStore.

Additional keyword arguments.

If kwargs contains IDs and documents contain ids, the IDs in the kwargs will receive precedence.