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description: Create fully-managed, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with Cloudflare AI Search.
title: Get started
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# Get started

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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://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/workers/)

Create, populate, and query an AI Search instance from a Cloudflare Worker.

### [CLI](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/wrangler/)

Create and manage AI Search instances from the command line.

### [Dashboard](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/dashboard/)

Create and configure AI Search using the Cloudflare dashboard.

### [Python SDK](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/python/)

Create, populate, and query an AI Search instance from Python.

### [REST API](https://e8aee267.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/get-started/api/)

Create AI Search instances programmatically using the REST API.

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