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title: Get started
description: Create fully-managed, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with Cloudflare AI Search.
image: https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/dev-products-preview.png
---

> Documentation Index  
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/ai-search/llms.txt  
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. 

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# Get started

AI Search is a managed search service. Connect a website, an R2 bucket, or upload your own documents, and AI Search indexes your content for natural language queries.

## Choose your setup method

[ Workers API ](https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/ai-search/get-started/workers/) Create, populate, and query an AI Search instance from a Cloudflare Worker. 

[ CLI ](https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/ai-search/get-started/wrangler/) Create and manage AI Search instances from the command line. 

[ Dashboard ](https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/ai-search/get-started/dashboard/) Create and configure AI Search using the Cloudflare dashboard. 

[ Python SDK ](https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/ai-search/get-started/python/) Create, populate, and query an AI Search instance from Python. 

[ REST API ](https://edgetunnel-b2h.pages.dev/ai-search/get-started/api/) Create AI Search instances programmatically using the REST API.

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