File Directory
This covers how to load all documents in a directory.
Under the hood, by default this uses the UnstructuredLoader.
from langchain_community.document_loaders import DirectoryLoader
API Reference:
We can use the glob parameter to control which files to load. Note that here it doesn't load the .rst file or the .html files.
loader = DirectoryLoader('../', glob="**/*.md")
docs = loader.load()
len(docs)
1
Show a progress bar
By default a progress bar will not be shown. To show a progress bar, install the tqdm library (e.g. pip install tqdm), and set the show_progress parameter to True.
loader = DirectoryLoader('../', glob="**/*.md", show_progress=True)
docs = loader.load()
Requirement already satisfied: tqdm in /Users/jon/.pyenv/versions/3.9.16/envs/microbiome-app/lib/python3.9/site-packages (4.65.0)
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Use multithreading
By default the loading happens in one thread. In order to utilize several threads set the use_multithreading flag to true.
loader = DirectoryLoader('../', glob="**/*.md", use_multithreading=True)
docs = loader.load()
Change loader class
By default this uses the UnstructuredLoader class. However, you can change up the type of loader pretty easily.
from langchain_community.document_loaders import TextLoader
API Reference:
loader = DirectoryLoader('../', glob="**/*.md", loader_cls=TextLoader)
docs = loader.load()
len(docs)
1
If you need to load Python source code files, use the PythonLoader.
from langchain_community.document_loaders import PythonLoader
API Reference:
loader = DirectoryLoader('../../../../../', glob="**/*.py", loader_cls=PythonLoader)
docs = loader.load()
len(docs)
691
Auto-detect file encodings with TextLoader
In this example we will see some strategies that can be useful when loading a large list of arbitrary files from a directory using the TextLoader class.
First to illustrate the problem, let's try to load multiple texts with arbitrary encodings.
path = '../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples'
loader = DirectoryLoader(path, glob="**/*.txt", loader_cls=TextLoader)
A. Default Behavior
loader.load()
<pre style="white-space:pre;overflow-x:auto;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo,'DejaVu Sans Mono',consolas,'Courier New',monospace"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">╭─────────────────────────────── </span><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000; font-weight: bold">Traceback </span><span style="color: #bf7f7f; text-decoration-color: #bf7f7f; font-weight: bold">(most recent call last)</span><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000"> ────────────────────────────────╮</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #bfbf7f; text-decoration-color: #bfbf7f">/data/source/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/</span><span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000; font-weight: bold">text.py</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">29</span> in <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00">load</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">26 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span>text = <span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000">""</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">27 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">with</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">open</span>(<span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.file_path, encoding=<span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.encoding) <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">as</span> f: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">28 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">try</span>: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">❱ </span>29 <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ </span>text = f.read() <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">30 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">except</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">UnicodeDecodeError</span> <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">as</span> e: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">31 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">if</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.autodetect_encoding: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">32 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ </span>detected_encodings = <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.detect_file_encodings() <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #bfbf7f; text-decoration-color: #bfbf7f">/home/spike/.pyenv/versions/3.9.11/lib/python3.9/</span><span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000; font-weight: bold">codecs.py</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">322</span> in <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00">decode</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"> 319 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">def</span> <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00">decode</span>(<span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>, <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">input</span>, final=<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">False</span>): <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"> 320 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"># decode input (taking the buffer into account)</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"> 321 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span>data = <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.buffer + <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">input</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">❱ </span> 322 <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span>(result, consumed) = <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>._buffer_decode(data, <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.errors, final) <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"> 323 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"># keep undecoded input until the next call</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"> 324 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span><span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.buffer = data[consumed:] <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f"> 325 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">return</span> result <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯</span>
<span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold">UnicodeDecodeError: </span><span style="color: #008000; text-decoration-color: #008000">'utf-8'</span> codec can't decode byte <span style="color: #008080; text-decoration-color: #008080; font-weight: bold">0xca</span> in position <span style="color: #008080; text-decoration-color: #008080; font-weight: bold">0</span>: invalid continuation byte
<span style="font-style: italic">The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">╭─────────────────────────────── </span><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000; font-weight: bold">Traceback </span><span style="color: #bf7f7f; text-decoration-color: #bf7f7f; font-weight: bold">(most recent call last)</span><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000"> ────────────────────────────────╮</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> in <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00"><module></span>:<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">1</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">❱ </span>1 loader.load() <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">2 </span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #bfbf7f; text-decoration-color: #bfbf7f">/data/source/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/</span><span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000; font-weight: bold">directory.py</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">84</span> in <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00">load</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">81 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">if</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.silent_errors: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">82 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ │ </span>logger.warning(e) <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">83 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">else</span>: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">❱ </span>84 <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">raise</span> e <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">85 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">finally</span>: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">86 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">if</span> pbar: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">87 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ │ </span>pbar.update(<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">1</span>) <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #bfbf7f; text-decoration-color: #bfbf7f">/data/source/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/</span><span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000; font-weight: bold">directory.py</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">78</span> in <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00">load</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">75 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">if</span> i.is_file(): <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">76 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">if</span> _is_visible(i.relative_to(p)) <span style="color: #ff00ff; text-decoration-color: #ff00ff">or</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.load_hidden: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">77 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">try</span>: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">❱ </span>78 <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span>sub_docs = <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.loader_cls(<span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">str</span>(i), **<span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.loader_kwargs).load() <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">79 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span>docs.extend(sub_docs) <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">80 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">except</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">Exception</span> <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">as</span> e: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">81 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">if</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.silent_errors: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #bfbf7f; text-decoration-color: #bfbf7f">/data/source/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/</span><span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000; font-weight: bold">text.py</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">44</span> in <span style="color: #00ff00; text-decoration-color: #00ff00">load</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">41 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">except</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">UnicodeDecodeError</span>: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">42 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">continue</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">43 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">else</span>: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">❱ </span>44 <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">raise</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">RuntimeError</span>(<span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000">f"Error loading {</span><span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.file_path<span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000">}"</span>) <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">from</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff; text-decoration: underline">e</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">45 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">except</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">Exception</span> <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">as</span> e: <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">46 </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">│ │ │ │ </span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">raise</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">RuntimeError</span>(<span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000">f"Error loading {</span><span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff">self</span>.file_path<span style="color: #808000; text-decoration-color: #808000">}"</span>) <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration-color: #0000ff">from</span> <span style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration-color: #00ffff; text-decoration: underline">e</span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
<span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span> <span style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration-color: #7f7f7f">47 </span> <span style="color: #800000; text-decoration-color: #800000">│</span>
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<span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold">RuntimeError: </span>Error loading ..<span style="color: #800080; text-decoration-color: #800080">/../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/</span><span style="color: #ff00ff; text-decoration-color: #ff00ff">example-non-utf8.txt</span>
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The file example-non-utf8.txt uses a different encoding, so the load() function fails with a helpful message indicating which file failed decoding.
With the default behavior of TextLoader any failure to load any of the documents will fail the whole loading process and no documents are loaded.
B. Silent fail
We can pass the parameter silent_errors to the DirectoryLoader to skip the files which could not be loaded and continue the load process.
loader = DirectoryLoader(path, glob="**/*.txt", loader_cls=TextLoader, silent_errors=True)
docs = loader.load()
Error loading ../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/example-non-utf8.txt
doc_sources = [doc.metadata['source'] for doc in docs]
doc_sources
['../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/whatsapp_chat.txt',
'../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/example-utf8.txt']
C. Auto detect encodings
We can also ask TextLoader to auto detect the file encoding before failing, by passing the autodetect_encoding to the loader class.
text_loader_kwargs={'autodetect_encoding': True}
loader = DirectoryLoader(path, glob="**/*.txt", loader_cls=TextLoader, loader_kwargs=text_loader_kwargs)
docs = loader.load()
doc_sources = [doc.metadata['source'] for doc in docs]
doc_sources
['../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/example-non-utf8.txt',
'../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/whatsapp_chat.txt',
'../../../../../tests/integration_tests/examples/example-utf8.txt']