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+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "dfe37963-1af6-44fc-a841-8e462443f5e6",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## gmail RAG assistant"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "ba2779af-84ef-4227-9e9e-6eaf0df87e77",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# imports\n",
+    "\n",
+    "import os\n",
+    "import glob\n",
+    "from dotenv import load_dotenv\n",
+    "import gradio as gr\n",
+    "# NEW IMPORTS FOR GMAIL\n",
+    "from google.auth.transport.requests import Request\n",
+    "from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials\n",
+    "from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow\n",
+    "from googleapiclient.discovery import build\n",
+    "from datetime import datetime\n",
+    "import base64\n",
+    "from email.mime.text import MIMEText\n",
+    "import re"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "802137aa-8a74-45e0-a487-d1974927d7ca",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# imports for langchain, plotly and Chroma\n",
+    "\n",
+    "from langchain.document_loaders import DirectoryLoader, TextLoader\n",
+    "from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter\n",
+    "from langchain.schema import Document\n",
+    "from langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddings, ChatOpenAI\n",
+    "from langchain_chroma import Chroma\n",
+    "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
+    "from sklearn.manifold import TSNE\n",
+    "import numpy as np\n",
+    "import plotly.graph_objects as go\n",
+    "from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory\n",
+    "from langchain.chains import ConversationalRetrievalChain\n",
+    "from langchain.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "58c85082-e417-4708-9efe-81a5d55d1424",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# price is a factor for our company, so we're going to use a low cost model\n",
+    "\n",
+    "MODEL = \"gpt-4o-mini\"\n",
+    "db_name = \"vector_db\""
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "ee78efcb-60fe-449e-a944-40bab26261af",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Load environment variables in a file called .env\n",
+    "\n",
+    "load_dotenv(override=True)\n",
+    "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY', 'your-key-if-not-using-env')\n",
+    "# NEW: Gmail API credentials\n",
+    "SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly']\n",
+    "CREDENTIALS_FILE = 'credentials.json'  # Download from Google Cloud Console\n",
+    "TOKEN_FILE = 'token.json'"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "730711a9-6ffe-4eee-8f48-d6cfb7314905",
+   "metadata": {
+    "scrolled": true
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Read in emails using LangChain's loaders\n",
+    "# IMPORTANT: set the email received date range hard-coded below\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def authenticate_gmail():\n",
+    "    \"\"\"Authenticate and return Gmail service object\"\"\"\n",
+    "    creds = None\n",
+    "    if os.path.exists(TOKEN_FILE):\n",
+    "        creds = Credentials.from_authorized_user_file(TOKEN_FILE, SCOPES)\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    if not creds or not creds.valid:\n",
+    "        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:\n",
+    "            creds.refresh(Request())\n",
+    "        else:\n",
+    "            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(CREDENTIALS_FILE, SCOPES)\n",
+    "            creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        with open(TOKEN_FILE, 'w') as token:\n",
+    "            token.write(creds.to_json())\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    return build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=creds)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def get_email_content(service, message_id):\n",
+    "    \"\"\"Extract email content from message\"\"\"\n",
+    "    try:\n",
+    "        message = service.users().messages().get(userId='me', id=message_id, format='full').execute()\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        # Extract basic info\n",
+    "        headers = message['payload'].get('headers', [])\n",
+    "        subject = next((h['value'] for h in headers if h['name'] == 'Subject'), 'No Subject')\n",
+    "        sender = next((h['value'] for h in headers if h['name'] == 'From'), 'Unknown Sender')\n",
+    "        date = next((h['value'] for h in headers if h['name'] == 'Date'), 'Unknown Date')\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        # Extract body\n",
+    "        body = \"\"\n",
+    "        if 'parts' in message['payload']:\n",
+    "            for part in message['payload']['parts']:\n",
+    "                if part['mimeType'] == 'text/plain':\n",
+    "                    data = part['body']['data']\n",
+    "                    body = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(data).decode('utf-8')\n",
+    "                    break\n",
+    "        else:\n",
+    "            if message['payload']['body'].get('data'):\n",
+    "                body = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(message['payload']['body']['data']).decode('utf-8')\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        # Clean up body text\n",
+    "        body = re.sub(r'\\s+', ' ', body).strip()\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        return {\n",
+    "            'subject': subject,\n",
+    "            'sender': sender,\n",
+    "            'date': date,\n",
+    "            'body': body,\n",
+    "            'id': message_id\n",
+    "        }\n",
+    "    except Exception as e:\n",
+    "        print(f\"Error processing message {message_id}: {str(e)}\")\n",
+    "        return None\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def load_gmail_documents(start_date, end_date, max_emails=100):\n",
+    "    \"\"\"Load emails from Gmail between specified dates\"\"\"\n",
+    "    service = authenticate_gmail()\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    # Format dates for Gmail API (YYYY/MM/DD)\n",
+    "    start_date_str = start_date.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')\n",
+    "    end_date_str = end_date.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    # Build query\n",
+    "    query = f'after:{start_date_str} before:{end_date_str}'\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    # Get message list\n",
+    "    result = service.users().messages().list(userId='me', q=query, maxResults=max_emails).execute()\n",
+    "    messages = result.get('messages', [])\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    print(f\"Found {len(messages)} emails between {start_date_str} and {end_date_str}\")\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    # Convert to LangChain documents\n",
+    "    documents = []\n",
+    "    for i, message in enumerate(messages):\n",
+    "        print(f\"Processing email {i+1}/{len(messages)}\")\n",
+    "        email_data = get_email_content(service, message['id'])\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        if email_data and email_data['body']:\n",
+    "            # Create document content\n",
+    "            content = f\"\"\"Subject: {email_data['subject']}\n",
+    "From: {email_data['sender']}\n",
+    "Date: {email_data['date']}\n",
+    "\n",
+    "{email_data['body']}\"\"\"\n",
+    "            \n",
+    "            # Create LangChain document\n",
+    "            doc = Document(\n",
+    "                page_content=content,\n",
+    "                metadata={\n",
+    "                    \"doc_type\": \"email\",\n",
+    "                    \"subject\": email_data['subject'],\n",
+    "                    \"sender\": email_data['sender'],\n",
+    "                    \"date\": email_data['date'],\n",
+    "                    \"message_id\": email_data['id']\n",
+    "                }\n",
+    "            )\n",
+    "            documents.append(doc)\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    return documents\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# SET YOUR DATE RANGE HERE\n",
+    "start_date = datetime(2025, 6, 20)  # YYYY, MM, DD\n",
+    "end_date = datetime(2025, 6, 26)   # YYYY, MM, DD\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Load Gmail documents \n",
+    "documents = load_gmail_documents(start_date, end_date, max_emails=200)\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "c59de72d-f965-44b3-8487-283e4c623b1d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=200)\n",
+    "chunks = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "print(f\"Total number of chunks: {len(chunks)}\")\n",
+    "print(f\"Document types found: {set(doc.metadata['doc_type'] for doc in documents)}\")"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "78998399-ac17-4e28-b15f-0b5f51e6ee23",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Put the chunks of data into a Vector Store that associates a Vector Embedding with each chunk\n",
+    "# Chroma is a popular open source Vector Database based on SQLLite\n",
+    "\n",
+    "embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# If you would rather use the free Vector Embeddings from HuggingFace sentence-transformers\n",
+    "# Then replace embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()\n",
+    "# with:\n",
+    "# from langchain.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings\n",
+    "# embeddings = HuggingFaceEmbeddings(model_name=\"sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2\")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Delete if already exists\n",
+    "\n",
+    "if os.path.exists(db_name):\n",
+    "    Chroma(persist_directory=db_name, embedding_function=embeddings).delete_collection()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Create vectorstore\n",
+    "\n",
+    "vectorstore = Chroma.from_documents(documents=chunks, embedding=embeddings, persist_directory=db_name)\n",
+    "print(f\"Vectorstore created with {vectorstore._collection.count()} documents\")"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "ff2e7687-60d4-4920-a1d7-a34b9f70a250",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Let's investigate the vectors\n",
+    "\n",
+    "collection = vectorstore._collection\n",
+    "count = collection.count()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "sample_embedding = collection.get(limit=1, include=[\"embeddings\"])[\"embeddings\"][0]\n",
+    "dimensions = len(sample_embedding)\n",
+    "print(f\"There are {count:,} vectors with {dimensions:,} dimensions in the vector store\")"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "b0d45462-a818-441c-b010-b85b32bcf618",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Visualizing the Vector Store\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Let's take a minute to look at the documents and their embedding vectors to see what's going on."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "b98adf5e-d464-4bd2-9bdf-bc5b6770263b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Prework (with thanks to Jon R for identifying and fixing a bug in this!)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "result = collection.get(include=['embeddings', 'documents', 'metadatas'])\n",
+    "vectors = np.array(result['embeddings'])\n",
+    "documents = result['documents']\n",
+    "metadatas = result['metadatas']\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Alternatively, color by sender:\n",
+    "senders = [metadata.get('sender', 'unknown') for metadata in metadatas]\n",
+    "unique_senders = list(set(senders))\n",
+    "sender_colors = ['blue', 'green', 'red', 'orange', 'purple', 'brown', 'pink', 'gray']\n",
+    "colors = [sender_colors[unique_senders.index(sender) % len(sender_colors)] for sender in senders]"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "427149d5-e5d8-4abd-bb6f-7ef0333cca21",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# We humans find it easier to visalize things in 2D!\n",
+    "# Reduce the dimensionality of the vectors to 2D using t-SNE\n",
+    "# (t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "tsne = TSNE(n_components=2, random_state=42)\n",
+    "reduced_vectors = tsne.fit_transform(vectors)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Create the 2D scatter plot\n",
+    "fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Scatter(\n",
+    "    x=reduced_vectors[:, 0],\n",
+    "    y=reduced_vectors[:, 1],\n",
+    "    mode='markers',\n",
+    "    marker=dict(size=5, color=colors, opacity=0.8),\n",
+    "    text=[f\"Type: {t}<br>Text: {d[:100]}...\" for t, d in zip(senders, documents)],\n",
+    "    hoverinfo='text'\n",
+    ")])\n",
+    "\n",
+    "fig.update_layout(\n",
+    "    title='2D Chroma Vector Store Visualization',\n",
+    "    scene=dict(xaxis_title='x',yaxis_title='y'),\n",
+    "    width=800,\n",
+    "    height=600,\n",
+    "    margin=dict(r=20, b=10, l=10, t=40)\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "fig.show()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "e1418e88-acd5-460a-bf2b-4e6efc88e3dd",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# Let's try 3D!\n",
+    "\n",
+    "tsne = TSNE(n_components=3, random_state=42)\n",
+    "reduced_vectors = tsne.fit_transform(vectors)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Create the 3D scatter plot\n",
+    "fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Scatter3d(\n",
+    "    x=reduced_vectors[:, 0],\n",
+    "    y=reduced_vectors[:, 1],\n",
+    "    z=reduced_vectors[:, 2],\n",
+    "    mode='markers',\n",
+    "    marker=dict(size=5, color=colors, opacity=0.8),\n",
+    "    text=[f\"Type: {t}<br>Text: {d[:100]}...\" for t, d in zip(senders, documents)],\n",
+    "    hoverinfo='text'\n",
+    ")])\n",
+    "\n",
+    "fig.update_layout(\n",
+    "    title='3D Chroma Vector Store Visualization',\n",
+    "    scene=dict(xaxis_title='x', yaxis_title='y', zaxis_title='z'),\n",
+    "    width=900,\n",
+    "    height=700,\n",
+    "    margin=dict(r=20, b=10, l=10, t=40)\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "fig.show()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "bbbcb659-13ce-47ab-8a5e-01b930494964",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Langchain and Gradio to prototype a chat with the LLM\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "d72567e8-f891-4797-944b-4612dc6613b1",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "\n",
+    "from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate\n",
+    "from langchain.chains.combine_documents import create_stuff_documents_chain\n",
+    "from langchain.chains import create_retrieval_chain\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# create a new Chat with OpenAI\n",
+    "llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0.7, model_name=MODEL)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Alternative - if you'd like to use Ollama locally, uncomment this line instead\n",
+    "# llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0.7, model_name='llama3.2', base_url='http://localhost:11434/v1', api_key='ollama')\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# change LLM standard prompt (standard prompt defaults the answer to be 'I don't know' too often, especially when using a small LLM\n",
+    "\n",
+    "qa_prompt=PromptTemplate.from_template(\"Use the following pieces of context to answer the user's question. Answer as best you can given the information you have;\\\n",
+    "            if you have a reasonable idea of the answer,/then explain it and mention that you're unsure. \\\n",
+    "            But if you don't know the answer, don't make it up. \\\n",
+    "            {context} \\\n",
+    "            Question: {question} \\\n",
+    "            Helpful Answer:\"\n",
+    "            )\n",
+    "\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Wrap into a StuffDocumentsChain, matching the variable name 'context'\n",
+    "combine_docs_chain = create_stuff_documents_chain(\n",
+    "    llm=llm,\n",
+    "    prompt=qa_prompt,\n",
+    "    document_variable_name=\"context\"\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# set up the conversation memory for the chat\n",
+    "#memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key='chat_history', return_messages=True)\n",
+    "memory = ConversationBufferMemory(\n",
+    "    memory_key='chat_history', \n",
+    "    return_messages=True,\n",
+    "    output_key='answer'  \n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# the retriever is an abstraction over the VectorStore that will be used during RAG\n",
+    "retriever = vectorstore.as_retriever(search_kwargs={\"k\": 10})\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# putting it together: set up the conversation chain with the GPT 3.5 LLM, the vector store and memory\n",
+    "# conversation_chain = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(llm=llm, retriever=retriever, memory=memory)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "conversation_chain = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(\n",
+    "    llm=llm,\n",
+    "    retriever=retriever,\n",
+    "    memory=memory,\n",
+    "    combine_docs_chain_kwargs={\"prompt\": qa_prompt},\n",
+    "    return_source_documents=True\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def chat(question, history):\n",
+    "    result = conversation_chain.invoke({\"question\": question})\n",
+    "    return result[\"answer\"]\n",
+    "\n",
+    "view = gr.ChatInterface(chat, type=\"messages\").launch(inbrowser=False)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "fe4229aa-6afe-4592-93a4-71a47ab69846",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
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