BSHTMLLoader

This notebook provides a quick overview for getting started with BeautifulSoup4 document loader. For detailed documentation of all __ModuleName__Loader features and configurations head to the API reference.

Overview

Integration details

Class	Package	Local	Serializable	JS support
BSHTMLLoader	langchain_community	✅	❌	❌

Loader features

Source	Document Lazy Loading	Native Async Support
BSHTMLLoader	✅	❌

Setup

To access BSHTMLLoader document loader you'll need to install the langchain-community integration package and the bs4 python package.

Credentials

No credentials are needed to use the BSHTMLLoader class.

If you want to get automated best in-class tracing of your model calls you can also set your LangSmith API key by uncommenting below:

# os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your LangSmith API key: ")
# os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"

Installation

Install langchain_community and bs4.

%pip install -qU langchain_community bs4

Initialization

Now we can instantiate our model object and load documents:

• TODO: Update model instantiation with relevant params.

from langchain_community.document_loaders import BSHTMLLoader

loader = BSHTMLLoader(
    file_path="./example_data/fake-content.html",
)

API Reference:BSHTMLLoader

Load

docs = loader.load()
docs[0]

Document(metadata={'source': './example_data/fake-content.html', 'title': 'Test Title'}, page_content='\nTest Title\n\n\nMy First Heading\nMy first paragraph.\n\n\n')

print(docs[0].metadata)

{'source': './example_data/fake-content.html', 'title': 'Test Title'}

Lazy Load

page = []
for doc in loader.lazy_load():
    page.append(doc)
    if len(page) >= 10:
        # do some paged operation, e.g.
        # index.upsert(page)

        page = []
page[0]

Document(metadata={'source': './example_data/fake-content.html', 'title': 'Test Title'}, page_content='\nTest Title\n\n\nMy First Heading\nMy first paragraph.\n\n\n')

Adding separator to BS4

We can also pass a separator to use when calling get_text on the soup

loader = BSHTMLLoader(
    file_path="./example_data/fake-content.html", get_text_separator=", "
)

docs = loader.load()
print(docs[0])

page_content='
, Test Title, 
, 
, 
, My First Heading, 
, My first paragraph., 
, 
, 
' metadata={'source': './example_data/fake-content.html', 'title': 'Test Title'}

API reference

For detailed documentation of all BSHTMLLoader features and configurations head to the API reference: https://python.langchain.com/api_reference/community/document_loaders/langchain_community.document_loaders.html_bs.BSHTMLLoader.html

Related

• Document loader conceptual guide
• Document loader how-to guides