brainy/docs/guides/import-anything.md

Import Anything - ONE Method, Infinite Intelligence 🚀

Brainy's import is ONE magical method that understands EVERYTHING:

• 📊 Data (objects, arrays, strings)
• 📁 Files (auto-detects by path)
• 🌐 URLs (auto-fetches with authentication support)
• 📄 Formats (JSON, CSV, Excel, PDF, YAML, DOCX, Markdown - all auto-detected)

The Ultimate Simplicity

import { Brainy } from '@soulcraft/brainy'

const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()

// ONE method for EVERYTHING:
await brain.import(anything)

Import Examples - It Just Works™

📊 Import JSON Data

// Array of objects? No problem.
const people = [
 { name: 'Alice', role: 'Engineer', company: 'TechCorp' },
 { name: 'Bob', role: 'Designer', company: 'TechCorp' }
]

await brain.import(people)
// ✨ Automatically detected as Person entities with Organization relationships!

📄 Import CSV - File or String

// From file? Just pass the path!
await brain.import('customers.csv')
// ✨ Auto-detects encoding, delimiter, types - creates entities!

// Or pass CSV content directly
const csv = `name,age,city
John,30,NYC
Jane,25,SF`

await brain.import(csv, { format: 'csv' })
// ✨ Smart CSV parsing handles quotes, escapes, everything!

📊 Import Excel - Multi-Sheet Support

// Import entire Excel workbook — every sheet is processed automatically
await brain.import('sales-report.xlsx')
// ✨ Processes all sheets, preserves structure, infers types!

// Mirror the workbook into the VFS, grouped by sheet
await brain.import('data.xlsx', {
 vfsPath: '/imports/data',
 groupBy: 'sheet'
})
// ✨ Multi-sheet data becomes interconnected entities!

📑 Import PDF - Text & Tables

// Import PDF documents — text and tables are extracted automatically
await brain.import('research-paper.pdf')
// ✨ Extracts text, detects tables, preserves metadata!

📝 Import YAML - File or String

// From file? Auto-detected!
await brain.import('config.yaml')
// ✨ Knows it's a file, reads it, parses YAML!

// Or directly:
const yaml = `
project: AI Assistant
team:
 - name: Alice
 role: Lead
 - name: Bob
 role: Dev
`
await brain.import(yaml, { format: 'yaml' })
// ✨ Hierarchical data becomes a connected graph!

📄 Import Word Documents (DOCX) -

// From file path
await brain.import('research-paper.docx')
// ✨ Extracts text, headings, tables, and metadata!

// Or from buffer
const buffer = fs.readFileSync('document.docx')
await brain.import(buffer, { format: 'docx' })
// ✨ Uses heading hierarchy for entity organization!

// With neural extraction
await brain.import('report.docx', {
 enableNeuralExtraction: true,
 enableHierarchicalRelationships: true
})
// ✨ Extracts entities from paragraphs and creates relationships within sections!

🌐 Import from URLs - Auto-Detected!

// Just pass the URL - it knows!
await brain.import('https://api.example.com/data.json')
// ✨ Auto-detects URL, fetches, parses, processes!

// Works with any URL
await brain.import('https://data.gov/census.csv')
// ✨ Fetches CSV from web, parses, imports!

// With authentication
await brain.import({
 type: 'url',
 data: 'https://api.example.com/private/data.xlsx',
 auth: {
 username: 'user',
 password: 'pass'
 }
})
// ✨ Supports basic authentication for protected resources!

// With custom headers
await brain.import({
 type: 'url',
 data: 'https://api.example.com/data.json',
 headers: {
 'Authorization': 'Bearer TOKEN',
 'X-API-Key': 'your-key'
 }
})
// ✨ Full HTTP header customization support!

📖 Import Plain Text

// Even unstructured text works
const article = `Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries.
Machine learning enables predictive analytics.
Natural language processing powers chatbots.`

await brain.import(article, { format: 'text' })
// ✨ Extracts concepts, creates semantic connections!

The Magic Behind the Scenes

When you import data, Brainy:

1. Auto-detects format - CSV, Excel, PDF, JSON, YAML, DOCX, Markdown, or by file extension
2. Intelligent parsing - CSV (encoding/delimiter), Excel (multi-sheet), PDF (text/tables), DOCX (headings/paragraphs)
3. Identifies entity types - Uses AI to classify as Person, Document, Product, etc. (31 types!)
4. Finds relationships - Detects connections like "belongsTo", "createdBy", "references" (40 types!)
5. Scores confidence & weight - Every entity and relationship gets quality metrics
6. Creates embeddings - Makes everything semantically searchable
7. Indexes metadata - Enables lightning-fast filtering with range queries

Intelligent Type Detection

Brainy automatically detects what TYPE of data you're importing:

// This becomes a Person entity
{ name: 'John', email: 'john@example.com' }

// This becomes an Organization
{ companyName: 'Acme', employees: 500 }

// This becomes a Document
{ title: 'Report', content: '...', author: 'Jane' }

// This becomes a Location
{ latitude: 37.7, longitude: -122.4, city: 'SF' }

42 noun types and 127 verb types cover EVERYTHING!

Relationship Detection

Brainy finds connections in your data:

const data = [
 { id: 'u1', name: 'Alice', managerId: 'u2' },
 { id: 'u2', name: 'Bob', departmentId: 'd1' },
 { id: 'd1', name: 'Engineering' }
]

await brain.import(data)
// ✨ Automatically creates:
// - Alice "reportsTo" Bob
// - Bob "memberOf" Engineering

Confidence & Weight Scoring -

Every entity and relationship gets confidence and weight scores:

// Import with confidence threshold
await brain.import(data, {
 confidenceThreshold: 0.8 // Only extract entities with >80% confidence
})

// Query high-confidence entities using range queries
const highConfidence = await brain.find({
 where: {
 confidence: { gte: 0.8 } // Get entities with confidence >= 0.8
 }
})

// Range query operators: gt, gte, lt, lte, between
const mediumConfidence = await brain.find({
 where: {
 confidence: { between: [0.6, 0.8] }
 }
})

What do confidence scores mean?

• High (>0.8): Very confident entity classification
• Medium (0.6-0.8): Reasonable confidence
• Low (<0.6): Uncertain classification (filtered by default)

Weights indicate importance/relevance within the document context.

Per-Sheet Excel Extraction -

Excel files with multiple sheets can be organized by sheet:

// Group entities by sheet in VFS
await brain.import('multi-sheet-data.xlsx', {
 groupBy: 'sheet' // Creates separate directories for each sheet
})

// Result VFS structure:
// /imports/data/
// ├── Sheet1/
// │ ├── entity1.json
// │ └── entity2.json
// └── Sheet2/
// ├── entity3.json
// └── entity4.json

// Other groupBy options:
// - 'type': Group by entity type (Person, Place, etc.)
// - 'flat': All entities in one directory
// - 'custom': Use custom grouping function

Query Your Imported Data

Once imported, use Triple Intelligence to query:

// Vector search
const similar = await brain.find('engineers')

// Natural language
const results = await brain.find('people in engineering who joined this year')

// Graph traversal + filters
const connected = await brain.find({
 like: 'Alice',
 connected: { depth: 2 },
 where: { department: 'Engineering' }
})

Import Options (Optional!)

Everything works with zero config, but you can customize:

await brain.import(data, {
 // Format detection
 format: 'excel', // Force specific format (auto-detected if not specified)

 // VFS & Organization
 vfsPath: '/imports/my-data', // Where to store in VFS (auto-generated if not specified)
 groupBy: 'type', // Group entities by: 'type' | 'sheet' | 'flat' | 'custom'
 preserveSource: true, // Keep original source file in VFS (default: true)

 // Entity & Relationship Creation
 createEntities: true, // Create entities in knowledge graph (default: true)
 createRelationships: true, // Create relationships in knowledge graph (default: true)

 // Neural Intelligence
 enableNeuralExtraction: true, // Use AI to extract entities (default: true)
 enableRelationshipInference: true, // Use AI to infer relationships (default: true)
 enableConceptExtraction: true, // Extract concepts from text (default: true)
 confidenceThreshold: 0.6, // Minimum confidence for entities (0-1, default: 0.6)

 // Deduplication
 enableDeduplication: true, // Check for duplicate entities (default: true)
 deduplicationThreshold: 0.85, // Similarity threshold for duplicates (0-1, default: 0.85)
 // Notes: false disables BOTH the inline merge and the background pass that
 // runs ~5 min after the last import (merged duplicates are deleted).
 // The inline pass auto-disables for imports >100 entities (O(n²) cost);
 // the background pass still covers those unless the flag is false.

 // Performance
 chunkSize: 100, // Batch size for processing (default: varies by operation)

 // History & Progress
 enableHistory: true, // Track import history (default: true)
 onProgress: (progress) => { // Progress callback
 console.log(progress.stage, progress.message)
 }
})

Error Handling

Import continues even if some items fail:

const results = await brain.import(problematicData)
// Returns IDs of successful imports
// Logs warnings for failures
// Never crashes your app!

Performance

• Parallel processing - Fast imports with concurrent operations
• Batch operations - Memory efficient chunk processing
• Lazy loading - Import system loads only when needed
• Smart caching - Type detection and format parsing results cached

Use Cases

🏢 Business Data

// Import ANY source - ONE method!
await brain.import('customers.csv') // File
await brain.import('https://api.co/orders') // URL
await brain.import(productsArray) // Data

// Now query across all of it!
await brain.find('customers who bought products in Q4')

🔬 Research Data

// Import research papers
await brain.import(papers)

// Import citations
await brain.import(citations)

// Find connections
await brain.find('papers citing machine learning from 2024')

📱 Application Data

// Import users
await brain.import(users)

// Import posts
await brain.import(posts)

// Import comments
await brain.import(comments)

// Query the social graph
await brain.find('posts by users following Alice with >10 comments')

The Philosophy

Zero Configuration: Works perfectly out of the box Maximum Intelligence: AI understands your data's meaning Universal Protocol: 42 nouns × 127 verbs = ANY data model Delightful DX: Simple, clean, modern API

The ONE Method Philosophy

// ONE method that understands EVERYTHING:
await brain.import(data) // Objects, arrays, strings
await brain.import('file.csv') // Files (auto-detected)
await brain.import('http://..') // URLs (auto-fetched)

// It ALWAYS knows what to do! ✨

Why ONE method?

• 🎯 Simpler - No need to remember different methods
• 🧠 Smarter - Auto-detects what you're importing
• ✨ Magical - It just works, every time

That's the power of the Universal Knowledge Protocol™ - infinite intelligence, zero complexity!