Azure Search Documents
Python SDK for Azure Cognitive Search to query and manage search indexes.
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How Azure Search Documents is used
Azure Search Documents is a dependency in 4 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 74 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (87.8%), OpenAI Python Library (82.4%), azure-identity (79.7%).
Azure Search Documents popularity over time
Gid Score 52: downloads 65, use in agent projects 46, GitHub stars 40, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Azure Search Documents
| python-dotenv | 87.8% of Azure Search Documents projects · 9.6× more than average |
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| OpenAI Python Library | 82.4% of Azure Search Documents projects · 20.9× more than average |
| azure-identity | 79.7% of Azure Search Documents projects · 112.5× more than average |
| Pydantic | 58.1% of Azure Search Documents projects · 6.7× more than average |
| Azure Core | 51.4% of Azure Search Documents projects · 398.5× more than average |
| Requests | 50.0% of Azure Search Documents projects · 7.4× more than average |
| Semantic Kernel | 50.0% of Azure Search Documents projects · 1034.7× more than average |
| Azure AI Projects | 44.6% of Azure Search Documents projects · 173.0× more than average |
From all 74 projects in our scan that use Azure Search Documents, including the dependency samples.
Agent Skills for Azure Search Documents
| azure-search-documents-dotnet from microsoft/skills | Azure AI Search SDK for .NET (Azure.Search.Documents). Use for building search applications with full-text, vector, semantic, and hybrid search. Covers SearchC…npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill azure-search-documents-dotnet |
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Skills teach your coding agent how to use Azure Search Documents well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as Azure Search Documents. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | pip install azure-search-documents |
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| Main stacks | Python (74) |
| Example projects | Azure/intro-to-intelligent-apps, Josephrp/DataTonic, martaldsantos/agentic-ai-hack, ucl-docaider/docAider, Azure/agent-innovator-lab |
Alternatives to Azure Search Documents
In our scan, none of the most used tools in SDKs for hosted services does the same job as Azure Search Documents: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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