mem0/docs/examples/api_server.mdx

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title: '🌍 API Server'
---

### 🐳 Docker Setup

- Open variables.env, and edit it to add your 🔑 `OPENAI_API_KEY`.
- To setup your api server using docker, run the following command inside this folder using your terminal.

```bash
docker-compose up --build
```

📝 Note: The build command might take a while to install all the packages depending on your system resources.

### 🚀 Usage Instructions

- Your api server is running on [http://localhost:5000/](http://localhost:5000/)
- To use the api server, make an api call to the endpoints `/add` and `/query` using the json formats discussed below.
- To add data sources to the bot:
```json
// Request
{
  "data_type": "your_data_type_here",
  "url_or_text": "your_url_or_text_here"
}

// Response
{
  "data": "Added data_type: url_or_text"
}
```
- To ask questions from the bot:
```json
// Request
{
  "question": "your_question_here"
}

// Response
{
  "data": "your_answer_here"
}
```

🎉 Happy Chatting! 🎉