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Building RAG chatbot for movie recommendations with Qdrant and Open AI

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by Jenny ✓ · 36,798 views · created 2024-09-28 · Engineering, AI RAG

Needs changes. This template uses 1 thing(s) that n8n 3.0 removes: AI Agent v1 (old agent modes). 1 breaking item(s) found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 25 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 2 other triggers). Along the way it connects GitHub, Embeddings OpenAI, Qdrant Vector Store and OpenAI Chat Model. It also calls api.openai.com and edcc6735-2ffb-484f-b735-3467043828fe.europe-west3-0.gcp.cloud.qdrant.io:6333 over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 2 other triggers).

  1. GitHub: get (file)
  2. AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 1 tool (Call n8n Workflow Tool); memory: Window Buffer Memory
  3. Embedding Recommendation Request with Open AI (HTTP Request): calls api.openai.com (POST)
  4. Embedding Anti-Recommendation Request with Open AI (HTTP Request): calls api.openai.com (POST)
  5. Extract from File: extracts data from a file
  6. Extracting Embedding (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: positive_example
  7. Extracting Embedding (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: negative_example
  8. Qdrant Vector Store: stores documents in the Qdrant vector store, with embeddings: Embeddings OpenAI; document loader: Default Data Loader
  9. Merge: merges the data from its input branches
  10. Calling Qdrant Recommendation API (HTTP Request): calls edcc6735-2ffb-484f-b735-3467043828fe.europe-west3-0.gcp.cloud.qdrant.io:6333 (POST)

…plus 6 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

GitHubEmbeddings OpenAIQdrant Vector StoreOpenAI Chat Model

HTTP calls to: api.openai.com, edcc6735-2ffb-484f-b735-3467043828fe.europe-west3-0.gcp.cloud.qdrant.io:6333

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

1 thing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0. Fix it before you upgrade:

  • AI Agent v1 (old agent modes) in AI Agent (v1.6): replace with Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Rather not rewrite it? Many of these flows can be rebuilt in Make (free plan).

Removed in 3.0Replace with
AI Agent v1 (old agent modes)
AI Agent (v1.6)
Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Nodes used (18)

From the author

Create a recommendation tool without hallucinations based on RAG with the Qdrant Vector database. This example is based on movie recommendations on the IMDB-top1000 dataset. You can provide your wishes and your "big no's" to the chatbot, for example: "A movie…

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