Additionally, you can pass along any of the options from the PyMuPDF documentation as keyword arguments in the load call, and it will be pass along to the get_text() call.
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PowerPoint#
This covers how to load PowerPoint documents into a document format that we can use downstream.
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredPowerPointLoader
loader = UnstructuredPowerPointLoader("example_data/fake-power-point.pptx")
data = loader.load()
data
[Document(page_content='Adding a Bullet Slide\n\nFind the bullet slide layout\n\nUse _TextFrame.text for first bullet\n\nUse _TextFrame.add_paragraph() for subsequent bullets\n\nHere is a lot of text!\n\nHere is some text in a text box!', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/fake-power-point.pptx'}, lookup_index=0)]
Retain Elements#
Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".
loader = UnstructuredPowerPointLoader("example_data/fake-power-point.pptx", mode="elements")
data = loader.load()
data[0]
Document(page_content='Adding a Bullet Slide', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/fake-power-point.pptx'}, lookup_index=0)
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ReadTheDocs Documentation#
This notebook covers how to load content from html that was generated as part of a Read-The-Docs build.
For an example of this in the wild, see here.
This assumes that the html has already been scraped into a folder. This can be done by uncommenting and running the following command
#!wget -r -A.html -P rtdocs https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
from langchain.document_loaders import ReadTheDocsLoader
loader = ReadTheDocsLoader("rtdocs")
docs = loader.load()
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🧑 Instructions for ingesting your own dataset
Roam#
This notebook covers how to load documents from a Roam database. This takes a lot of inspiration from the example repo here.
🧑 Instructions for ingesting your own dataset#
Export your dataset from Roam Research. You can do this by clicking on the three dots in the upper right hand corner and then clicking Export.
When exporting, make sure to select the Markdown & CSV format option.
This will produce a .zip file in your Downloads folder. Move the .zip file into this repository.
Run the following command to unzip the zip file (replace the Export... with your own file name as needed).
unzip Roam-Export-1675782732639.zip -d Roam_DB
from langchain.document_loaders import RoamLoader
loader = ObsidianLoader("Roam_DB")
docs = loader.load()
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s3 Directory#
This covers how to load document objects from an s3 directory object.
from langchain.document_loaders import S3DirectoryLoader
#!pip install boto3
loader = S3DirectoryLoader("testing-hwc")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpaa9xl6ch/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
Specifying a prefix#
You can also specify a prefix for more finegrained control over what files to load.
loader = S3DirectoryLoader("testing-hwc", prefix="fake")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpujbkzf_l/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
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s3 File#
This covers how to load document objects from an s3 file object.
from langchain.document_loaders import S3FileLoader
#!pip install boto3
loader = S3FileLoader("testing-hwc", "fake.docx")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '/var/folders/y6/8_bzdg295ld6s1_97_12m4lr0000gn/T/tmpxvave6wl/fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
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Subtitle Files#
How to load data from subtitle (.srt) files
from langchain.document_loaders import SRTLoader
loader = SRTLoader("example_data/Star_Wars_The_Clone_Wars_S06E07_Crisis_at_the_Heart.srt")
docs = loader.load()
docs[0].page_content[:100]
'<i>Corruption discovered\nat the core of the Banking Clan!</i> <i>Reunited, Rush Clovis\nand Senator A'
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Telegram#
This notebook covers how to load data from Telegram into a format that can be ingested into LangChain.
from langchain.document_loaders import TelegramChatLoader
loader = TelegramChatLoader("example_data/telegram.json")
loader.load()
[Document(page_content="Henry on 2020-01-01T00:00:02: It's 2020...\n\nHenry on 2020-01-01T00:00:04: Fireworks!\n\nGrace ðŸ§¤ ðŸ\x8d’ on 2020-01-01T00:00:05: You're a minute late!\n\n", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/telegram.json'}, lookup_index=0)]
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Unstructured File Loader
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Retain Elements
Define a Partitioning Strategy
PDF Example
Unstructured File Loader#
This notebook covers how to use Unstructured to load files of many types. Unstructured currently supports loading of text files, powerpoints, html, pdfs, images, and more.
# # Install package
!pip install "unstructured[local-inference]"
!pip install "detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git@v0.6#egg=detectron2"
!pip install layoutparser[layoutmodels,tesseract]
# # Install other dependencies
# # https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/blob/main/docs/source/installing.rst
# !brew install libmagic
# !brew install poppler
# !brew install tesseract
# # If parsing xml / html documents:
# !brew install libxml2
# !brew install libxslt
# import nltk
# nltk.download('punkt')
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredFileLoader
loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("../../state_of_the_union.txt")
docs = loader.load()
docs[0].page_content[:400]
'Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.\n\nLast year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again.\n\nTonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans.\n\nWith a duty to one another to the American people to the Constit'
Retain Elements#
Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".


loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("../../state_of_the_union.txt", mode="elements")
docs = loader.load()
docs[:5]
[Document(page_content='Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Last year COVID-19 kept us apart. This year we are finally together again.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Tonight, we meet as Democrats Republicans and Independents. But most importantly as Americans.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='With a duty to one another to the American people to the Constitution.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='And with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0)]
Define a Partitioning Strategy#
Unstructured document loader allow users to pass in a strategy parameter that lets unstructured know how to partitioning the document. Currently supported strategies are "hi_res" (the default) and "fast". Hi res partitioning strategies are more accurate, but take longer to process. Fast strategies partition the document more quickly, but trade-off accuracy. Not all document types have separate hi res and fast partitioning strategies. For those document types, the strategy kwarg is ignored. In some cases, the high res strategy will fallback to fast if there is a dependency missing (i.e. a model for document partitioning). You can see how to apply a strategy to an UnstructuredFileLoader below.


from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredFileLoader
loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf", strategy="fast", mode="elements")
docs = loader.load()
docs[:5]
[Document(page_content='1', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'filename': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'UncategorizedText'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='2', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'filename': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'UncategorizedText'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='0', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'filename': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'UncategorizedText'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='2', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'filename': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'UncategorizedText'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='n', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'filename': 'layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf', 'page_number': 1, 'category': 'Title'}, lookup_index=0)]
PDF Example#
Processing PDF documents works exactly the same way. Unstructured detects the file type and extracts the same types of elements.
!wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/main/example-docs/layout-parser-paper.pdf -P "../../"
loader = UnstructuredFileLoader("../../layout-parser-paper.pdf", mode="elements")
docs = loader.load()
docs[:5]


docs = loader.load()
docs[:5]
[Document(page_content='LayoutParser : A Uniﬁed Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Zejiang Shen 1 ( (ea)\n ), Ruochen Zhang 2 , Melissa Dell 3 , Benjamin Charles Germain Lee 4 , Jacob Carlson 3 , and Weining Li 5', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Allen Institute for AI shannons@allenai.org', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Brown University ruochen zhang@brown.edu', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0),
 Document(page_content='Harvard University { melissadell,jacob carlson } @fas.harvard.edu', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../layout-parser-paper.pdf'}, lookup_index=0)]
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URL#
This covers how to load HTML documents from a list of URLs into a document format that we can use downstream.
 from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredURLLoader
urls = [
    "https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-8-2023",
    "https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-9-2023"
]
loader = UnstructuredURLLoader(urls=urls)
data = loader.load()
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Web Base#
This covers how to load all text from webpages into a document format that we can use downstream. For more custom logic for loading webpages look at some child class examples such as IMSDbLoader, AZLyricsLoader, and CollegeConfidentialLoader
from langchain.document_loaders import WebBaseLoader
loader = WebBaseLoader("https://www.espn.com/")
data = loader.load()
data


[Document(page_content="\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESPN - Serving Sports Fans. Anytime. Anywhere.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n        Skip to main content\n    \n\n        Skip to navigation\n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\n\n>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMenuESPN\n\n\nSearch\n\n\n\nscores\n\n\n\nNFLNBANHLNCAAMNCAAWSoccer…MLBNCAAFGolfTennisSports BettingBoxingCaribbean SeriesCFLNCAACricketF1HorseLLWSMMANASCARNBA G LeagueOlympic SportsRacingRN BBRN FBRugbyWNBAWWEX GamesXFLMore ESPNFantasyListenWatchESPN+\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nSUBSCRIBE NOW\n\n\n\n\n\nUFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski (ESPN+ PPV)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMen's College Hoops: Select


College Hoops: Select Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWomen's College Hoops: Select Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNHL: Select Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerman Cup: Round of 16\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 For 30: Bullies Of Baltimore\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Miller's Two-Round NFL Mock Draft\n\n\nQuick Links\n\n\n\n\nSuper Bowl LVII\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuper Bowl Betting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNBA Trade Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNBA All-Star Game\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFantasy Baseball: Sign Up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow To Watch NHL Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGames For Me\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFavorites\n\n\n\n\n\n\n      Manage Favorites\n      \n\n\n\nCustomize ESPNSign UpLog InESPN Sites\n\n\n\n\nESPN Deportes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndscape\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nespnW\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESPNFC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nX Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSEC Network\n\n\nESPN Apps\n\n\n\n\nESPN\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESPN Fantasy\n\n\nFollow


Fantasy\n\n\nFollow ESPN\n\n\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwitter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSnapchat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe ESPN Daily Podcast\n\n\nAP Photo/Mark J. Terrilllive\n\n\n\nChristian Wood elevates for the big-time stuffChristian Wood elevates for the big-time stuff15m0:29\n\n\nKyrie Irving nails the treyKyrie Irving nails the trey37m0:17\n\n\nDwight Powell rises up for putback dunkDwight Powell throws down the putback dunk for the Mavericks.38m0:16\n\n\nKyrie sinks his first basket with the MavericksKyrie Irving drains the jump shot early vs. the Clippers for his first points with the Mavericks.39m0:17\n\n\nReggie Bullock pulls up for wide open 3Reggie Bullock is left wide open for the 3-pointer early vs. the Clippers.46m0:21\n\n\n\nTOP HEADLINESSources: Lakers get PG Russell in 3-team tradeTrail Blazers shipping Hart to Knicks, sources sayUConn loses two straight for first time


sources sayUConn loses two straight for first time in 30 yearsNFL's Goodell on officiating: Never been betterNFLPA's Smith: Get rid of 'intrusive' NFL combineAlex Morgan: 'Bizarre' for Saudis to sponsor WWCBills' Hamlin makes appearance to receive awardWWE Hall of Famer Lawler recovering from strokeWhich NFL team trades up to No. 1?NBA TRADE DEADLINE3 P.M. ET ON THURSDAYTrade grades: What to make of the three-team deal involving Russell Westbrook and D'Angelo RussellESPN NBA Insider Kevin Pelton is handing out grades for the biggest moves.2hLayne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty ImagesNBA trade tracker: Grades, details for every deal for the 2022-23 seasonWhich players are finding new homes and which teams are making trades during the free-agency frenzy?59mESPN.comNBA trade deadline: Latest buzz and newsNBA SCOREBOARDWEDNESDAY'S GAMESSee AllCLEAR THE RUNWAYJalen Green soars for lefty alley-oop1h0:19Jarrett Allen skies to drop the hammer2h0:16Once


Allen skies to drop the hammer2h0:16Once the undisputed greatest, Joe Montana is still working things out15hWright ThompsonSUPER BOWL LVII6:30 P.M. ET ON SUNDAYBarbershop tales, a fistfight and brotherly love: Untold stories that explain the Kelce brothersJason and Travis Kelce will become the first brothers to face each other in a Super Bowl. Here are untold stories from people who know them best.16hTim McManus, +2 MoreEd Zurga/AP PhotoNFL experts predict Chiefs-Eagles: Our Super Bowl winner picksNFL writers, analysts and reporters take their best guesses on the Super Bowl LVII matchup.17hESPN staffBeware of Philadelphia's Rocky statue curseMadden sim predicts Eagles to win Super BowlTOP 10 TEAMS FALLCOLLEGE HOOPSUConn loses two straight for first time since 1993, falling to Marquette57m1:58Vandy drains 3 at buzzer to knock off Tennessee, fans storm the court1h0:54COLLEGE HOOPS SCORESMEN'S AND WOMEN'S


HOOPS SCORESMEN'S AND WOMEN'S TOP-25 GAMESMen's college hoops scoreboardWomen's college basketball scoresPROJECTING THE BUBBLEMEN'S COLLEGE HOOPSBubble Watch: Current situation? North Carolina has some work to doThe countdown to Selection Sunday on March 12 has begun. We will track which teams are locks and which ones can play their way into or out of the 2023 NCAA men's basketball tournament.6hJohn GasawayAP Photo/Matt Rourke Top HeadlinesSources: Lakers get PG Russell in 3-team tradeTrail Blazers shipping Hart to Knicks, sources sayUConn loses two straight for first time in 30 yearsNFL's Goodell on officiating: Never been betterNFLPA's Smith: Get rid of 'intrusive' NFL combineAlex Morgan: 'Bizarre' for Saudis to sponsor WWCBills' Hamlin makes appearance to receive awardWWE Hall of Famer Lawler recovering from strokeWhich NFL team trades up to No. 1?Favorites FantasyManage FavoritesFantasy HomeCustomize ESPNSign UpLog InICYMI1:54Orlovsky roasts Stephen A. for his top-5 players in the


Stephen A. for his top-5 players in the Super BowlDan Orlovsky lets Stephen A. Smith hear it after he lists his top five players in Super Bowl LVII. Best of ESPN+Michael Hickey/Getty ImagesBubble Watch 2023: Brace yourself for NCAA tournament dramaThe countdown to Selection Sunday on March 12 has begun. We will track which teams are locks and which ones can play their way into or out of the 2023 NCAA men's basketball tournament.Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty ImagesLeBron's journey to the NBA scoring record in shot chartsTake a look at how LeBron James' on-court performance has changed during his march to 38,388 points.Illustration by ESPNRe-drafting first two rounds of 2022 NFL class: All 64 picksWe gave every NFL team a do-over for last year's draft, re-drafting the top 64 picks. Here's who rises and falls with the benefit of hindsight.AP Photo/David DermerWay-too-early 2023 MLB starting rotation rankingsThe Yanks' and Mets' rotations take two of


Yanks' and Mets' rotations take two of the top three spots on our pre-spring training list. Where did they land -- and did another team sneak past one of 'em? Trending NowAP Photo/Jae C. HongStars pay tribute to LeBron James for securing NBA's all-time points recordLeBron James has passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for No. 1 on the all-time NBA scoring list, and other stars paid tribute to him on social media.Getty ImagesFans prepare for Rihanna's 2023 Super Bowl halftime showAs Rihanna prepares to make her highly anticipated return, supporters of all 32 teams are paying homage to the icon -- as only tormented NFL fans can.Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty ImagesWhen is the 2023 Super Bowl? Date, time for Chiefs vs. EaglesWe have you covered with seeding, scores and the full schedule for this season's playoffs -- and how to watch Super Bowl LVII.James Drake/Sports Illustrated via Getty ImagesNFL history: Super Bowl winners and resultsFrom the Packers' 1967 win


winners and resultsFrom the Packers' 1967 win over the Chiefs to the Rams' victory over the Bengals in 2022, we've got results for every Super Bowl.China Wong/NHLI via Getty ImagesBoston Bruins record tracker: Wins, points, milestonesThe B's are on pace for NHL records in wins and points, along with some individual superlatives as well. Follow along here with our updated tracker. Sports BettingPhoto by Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesSuper Bowl LVII betting: Everything you need to know to bet Eagles-ChiefsHere's your one-stop shop for all the information you need to help make your picks on the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. How to Watch on ESPN+(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)How to watch the PGA Tour, Masters, PGA Championship and FedEx Cup playoffs on ESPN, ESPN+Here's everything you need to know about how to watch the PGA Tour, Masters, PGA Championship and FedEx Cup playoffs on ESPN and ESPN+.


and FedEx Cup playoffs on ESPN and ESPN+. \n\nESPN+\n\n\n\n\nUFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski (ESPN+ PPV)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMen's College Hoops: Select Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWomen's College Hoops: Select Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNHL: Select Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerman Cup: Round of 16\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 For 30: Bullies Of Baltimore\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Miller's Two-Round NFL Mock Draft\n\n\nQuick Links\n\n\n\n\nSuper Bowl LVII\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuper Bowl Betting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNBA Trade Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNBA All-Star Game\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFantasy Baseball: Sign Up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow To Watch NHL Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGames For Me\n\n\nESPN Sites\n\n\n\n\nESPN Deportes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndscape\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nespnW\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESPNFC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nX Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSEC Network\n\n\nESPN Apps\n\n\n\n\nESPN\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESPN Fantasy\n\n\nFollow


Fantasy\n\n\nFollow ESPN\n\n\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwitter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSnapchat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe ESPN Daily Podcast\n\n\nTerms of UsePrivacy PolicyYour US State Privacy RightsChildren's Online Privacy PolicyInterest-Based AdsAbout Nielsen MeasurementDo Not Sell or Share My Personal InformationContact UsDisney Ad Sales SiteWork for ESPNCopyright: © ESPN Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'https://www.espn.com/'}, lookup_index=0)]


"""
# Use this piece of code for testing new custom BeautifulSoup parsers
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html_doc = requests.get("{INSERT_NEW_URL_HERE}")
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc.text, 'html.parser')
# Beautiful soup logic to be exported to langchain.document_loaders.webpage.py
# Example: transcript = soup.select_one("td[class='scrtext']").text
# BS4 documentation can be found here: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
""";
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Retain Elements
Word Documents#
This covers how to load Word documents into a document format that we can use downstream.
from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader
loader = UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader("example_data/fake.docx")
data = loader.load()
data
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]
Retain Elements#
Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".
loader = UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader("example_data/fake.docx", mode="elements")
data = loader.load()
data[0]
Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'fake.docx', 'filename': 'fake.docx', 'category': 'Title'}, lookup_index=0)
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Add video info
YouTube loader from Google Cloud
Prerequisites
🧑 Instructions for ingesting your Google Docs data
YouTube#
How to load documents from YouTube transcripts.
from langchain.document_loaders import YoutubeLoader
# !pip install youtube-transcript-api
loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True)
loader.load()
Add video info#
# ! pip install pytube
loader = YoutubeLoader.from_youtube_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYGlZkevEg", add_video_info=True)
loader.load()
YouTube loader from Google Cloud#
Prerequisites#
Create a Google Cloud project or use an existing project
Enable the Youtube Api
Authorize credentials for desktop app
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib youtube-transcript-api
🧑 Instructions for ingesting your Google Docs data#
By default, the GoogleDriveLoader expects the credentials.json file to be ~/.credentials/credentials.json, but this is configurable using the credentials_file keyword argument. Same thing with token.json. Note that token.json will be created automatically the first time you use the loader.
GoogleApiYoutubeLoader can load from a list of Google Docs document ids or a folder id. You can obtain your folder and document id from the URL:
Note depending on your set up, the service_account_path needs to be set up. See here for more details.
from langchain.document_loaders import GoogleApiClient, GoogleApiYoutubeLoader
# Init the GoogleApiClient
from pathlib import Path
google_api_client = GoogleApiClient(credentials_path=Path("your_path_creds.json"))
# Use a Channel


# Use a Channel
youtube_loader_channel = GoogleApiYoutubeLoader(google_api_client=google_api_client, channel_name="Reducible",captions_language="en")
# Use Youtube Ids
youtube_loader_ids = GoogleApiYoutubeLoader(google_api_client=google_api_client, video_ids=["TrdevFK_am4"], add_video_info=True)
# returns a list of Documents
youtube_loader_channel.load()
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CombineDocuments Chains#
CombineDocuments chains are useful for when you need to run a language over multiple documents.
Common use cases for this include question answering, question answering with sources, summarization, and more.
For more information on specific use cases as well as different methods for fetching these documents, please see
this overview.
This documentation now picks up from after you’ve fetched your documents - now what?
How do you pass them to the language model in a format it can understand?
There are a few different methods, or chains, for doing so. LangChain supports four of the more common ones - and
we are actively looking to include more, so if you have any ideas please reach out! Note that there is not
one best method - the decision of which one to use is often very context specific. In order from simplest to
most complex:
Stuffing#
Stuffing is the simplest method, whereby you simply stuff all the related data into the prompt as context
to pass to the language model. This is implemented in LangChain as the StuffDocumentsChain.
Pros: Only makes a single call to the LLM. When generating text, the LLM has access to all the data at once.
Cons: Most LLMs have a context length, and for large documents (or many documents) this will not work as it will result in a prompt larger than the context length.
The main downside of this method is that it only works on smaller pieces of data. Once you are working
with many pieces of data, this approach is no longer feasible. The next two approaches are designed to help deal with that.
Map Reduce#
This method involves running an initial prompt on each chunk of data (for summarization tasks, this


This method involves running an initial prompt on each chunk of data (for summarization tasks, this
could be a summary of that chunk; for question-answering tasks, it could be an answer based solely on that chunk).
Then a different prompt is run to combine all the initial outputs. This is implemented in the LangChain as the MapReduceDocumentsChain.
Pros: Can scale to larger documents (and more documents) than StuffDocumentsChain. The calls to the LLM on individual documents are independent and can therefore be parallelized.
Cons: Requires many more calls to the LLM than StuffDocumentsChain. Loses some information during the final combined call.
Refine#
This method involves running an initial prompt on the first chunk of data, generating some output.
For the remaining documents, that output is passed in, along with the next document,
asking the LLM to refine the output based on the new document.
Pros: Can pull in more relevant context, and may be less lossy than MapReduceDocumentsChain.
Cons: Requires many more calls to the LLM than StuffDocumentsChain. The calls are also NOT independent, meaning they cannot be paralleled like MapReduceDocumentsChain. There is also some potential dependencies on the ordering of the documents.
Map-Rerank#
This method involves running an initial prompt on each chunk of data, that not only tries to complete a
task but also gives a score for how certain it is in its answer. The responses are then
ranked according to this score, and the highest score is returned.
Pros: Similar pros as MapReduceDocumentsChain. Requires fewer calls, compared to MapReduceDocumentsChain.
Cons: Cannot combine information between documents. This means it is most useful when you expect there to be a single simple answer in a single document.
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One Line Index Creation
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Getting Started#
LangChain primary focuses on constructing indexes with the goal of using them as a Retriever. In order to best understand what this means, it’s worth highlighting what the base Retriever interface is. The BaseRetriever class in LangChain is as follows:
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import List
from langchain.schema import Document
class BaseRetriever(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def get_relevant_documents(self, query: str) -> List[Document]:
        """Get texts relevant for a query.
        Args:
            query: string to find relevant tests for
        Returns:
            List of relevant documents
        """
It’s that simple! The get_relevant_documents method can be implemented however you see fit.
Of course, we also help construct what we think useful Retrievers are. The main type of Retriever that we focus on is a Vectorstore retriever. We will focus on that for the rest of this guide.
In order to understand what a vectorstore retriever is, it’s important to understand what a Vectorstore is. So let’s look at that.
By default, LangChain uses Chroma as the vectorstore to index and search embeddings. To walk through this tutorial, we’ll first need to install chromadb.
pip install chromadb
This example showcases question answering over documents.
We have chosen this as the example for getting started because it nicely combines a lot of different elements (Text splitters, embeddings, vectorstores) and then also shows how to use them in a chain.
Question answering over documents consists of four steps:
Create an index
Create a Retriever from that index
Create a question answering chain
Ask questions!


Create a Retriever from that index
Create a question answering chain
Ask questions!
Each of the steps has multiple sub steps and potential configurations. In this notebook we will primarily focus on (1). We will start by showing the one-liner for doing so, but then break down what is actually going on.
First, let’s import some common classes we’ll use no matter what.
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Next in the generic setup, let’s specify the document loader we want to use. You can download the state_of_the_union.txt file here
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader('../state_of_the_union.txt')
One Line Index Creation#
To get started as quickly as possible, we can use the VectorstoreIndexCreator.
from langchain.indexes import VectorstoreIndexCreator
index = VectorstoreIndexCreator().from_loaders([loader])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
Now that the index is created, we can use it to ask questions of the data! Note that under the hood this is actually doing a few steps as well, which we will cover later in this guide.
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
index.query(query)
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
index.query_with_sources(query)


index.query_with_sources(query)
{'question': 'What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson',
 'answer': " The president said that he nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the nation's top legal minds, to continue Justice Breyer's legacy of excellence, and that she has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.\n",
 'sources': '../state_of_the_union.txt'}
What is returned from the VectorstoreIndexCreator is VectorStoreIndexWrapper, which provides these nice query and query_with_sources functionality. If we just wanted to access the vectorstore directly, we can also do that.
index.vectorstore
<langchain.vectorstores.chroma.Chroma at 0x119aa5940>
If we then want to access the VectorstoreRetriever, we can do that with:
index.vectorstore.as_retriever()
VectorStoreRetriever(vectorstore=<langchain.vectorstores.chroma.Chroma object at 0x119aa5940>, search_kwargs={})
Walkthrough#
Okay, so what’s actually going on? How is this index getting created?
A lot of the magic is being hid in this VectorstoreIndexCreator. What is this doing?
There are three main steps going on after the documents are loaded:
Splitting documents into chunks
Creating embeddings for each document
Storing documents and embeddings in a vectorstore
Let’s walk through this in code
documents = loader.load()
Next, we will split the documents into chunks.
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
We will then select which embeddings we want to use.


We will then select which embeddings we want to use.
from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
We now create the vectorstore to use as the index.
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
db = Chroma.from_documents(texts, embeddings)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
So that’s creating the index. Then, we expose this index in a retriever interface.
retriever = db.as_retriever()
Then, as before, we create a chain and use it to answer questions!
qa = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type(llm=OpenAI(), chain_type="stuff", retriever=retriever)
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
qa.run(query)
" The President said that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He said she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from organizations such as the Fraternal Order of Police and former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
VectorstoreIndexCreator is just a wrapper around all this logic. It is configurable in the text splitter it uses, the embeddings it uses, and the vectorstore it uses. For example, you can configure it as below:
index_creator = VectorstoreIndexCreator(
    vectorstore_cls=Chroma,
    embedding=OpenAIEmbeddings(),
    text_splitter=CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
)


)
Hopefully this highlights what is going on under the hood of VectorstoreIndexCreator. While we think it’s important to have a simple way to create indexes, we also think it’s important to understand what’s going on under the hood.
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How To Guides#
Utils#
There are a lot of different utilities that LangChain provides integrations for
These guides go over how to use them.
The utilities here are all utilities that make it easier to work with documents.
Text Splitters: A walkthrough of how to split large documents up into smaller, more manageable pieces of text.
VectorStores: A walkthrough of the vectorstore abstraction that LangChain supports.
Embeddings: A walkthrough of embedding functionalities, and different types of embeddings, that LangChain supports.
HyDE: How to use Hypothetical Document Embeddings, a novel way of constructing embeddings for document retrieval systems.
Vectorstores#
Vectorstores are one of the most important components of building indexes.
In the below guides, we cover different types of vectorstores and how to use them.
Chroma: A walkthrough of how to use the Chroma vectorstore wrapper.
AtlasDB: A walkthrough of how to use the AtlasDB vectorstore and visualizer wrapper.
DeepLake: A walkthrough of how to use the Deep Lake, data lake, wrapper.
FAISS: A walkthrough of how to use the FAISS vectorstore wrapper.
Elastic Search: A walkthrough of how to use the ElasticSearch wrapper.
Milvus: A walkthrough of how to use the Milvus vectorstore wrapper.
Open Search: A walkthrough of how to use the OpenSearch wrapper.
Pinecone: A walkthrough of how to use the Pinecone vectorstore wrapper.
Qdrant: A walkthrough of how to use the Qdrant vectorstore wrapper.
Weaviate: A walkthrough of how to use the Weaviate vectorstore wrapper.
PGVector: A walkthrough of how to use the PGVector (Postgres Vector DB) vectorstore wrapper.


Retrievers#
The retriever interface is a generic interface that makes it easy to combine documents with
language models. This interface exposes a get_relevant_documents method which takes in a query
(a string) and returns a list of documents.
Vectorstore Retriever: A walkthrough of how to use a VectorStore as a Retriever.
ChatGPT Plugin Retriever: A walkthrough of how to use the ChatGPT Plugin Retriever within the LangChain framework.
Chains#
The examples here are all end-to-end chains that use indexes or utils covered above.
Question Answering: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for question answering over specific documents.
Question Answering with Sources: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for question answering (with sources) over specific documents.
Summarization: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for summarization over specific documents.
Vector DB Text Generation: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for text generation over a vector database.
Vector DB Question Answering: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for question answering over a vector database.
Vector DB Question Answering with Sources: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for question answering (with sources) over a vector database.
Graph Question Answering: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain for question answering (with sources) over a graph database.
Chat Vector DB: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain as a chatbot over a vector database.
Analyze Document: A walkthrough of how to use LangChain to analyze long documents.
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Key Concepts#
Text Splitter#
This class is responsible for splitting long pieces of text into smaller components.
It contains different ways for splitting text (on characters, using Spacy, etc)
as well as different ways for measuring length (token based, character based, etc).
Embeddings#
These classes are very similar to the LLM classes in that they are wrappers around models,
but rather than return a string they return an embedding (list of floats). These are particularly useful when
implementing semantic search functionality. They expose separate methods for embedding queries versus embedding documents.
Vectorstores#
These are datastores that store embeddings of documents in vector form.
They expose a method for passing in a string and finding similar documents.
CombineDocuments Chains#
These are a subset of chains designed to work with documents. There are two pieces to consider:
The underlying chain method (eg, how the documents are combined)
Use cases for these types of chains.
For the first, please see this documentation for more detailed information on the types of chains LangChain supports.
For the second, please see the Use Cases section for more information on question answering,
question answering with sources, and summarization.
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Question Answering
Analyze Document#
The AnalyzeDocumentChain is more of an end to chain. This chain takes in a single document, splits it up, and then runs it through a CombineDocumentsChain. This can be used as more of an end-to-end chain.
with open('../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
Summarize#
Let’s take a look at it in action below, using it summarize a long document.
from langchain import OpenAI
from langchain.chains.summarize import load_summarize_chain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
summary_chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
from langchain.chains import AnalyzeDocumentChain
summarize_document_chain = AnalyzeDocumentChain(combine_docs_chain=summary_chain)
summarize_document_chain.run(state_of_the_union)
" In this speech, President Biden addresses the American people and the world, discussing the recent aggression of Russia's Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and the US response. He outlines economic sanctions and other measures taken to hold Putin accountable, and announces the US Department of Justice's task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs. He also announces plans to fight inflation and lower costs for families, invest in American manufacturing, and provide military, economic, and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. He calls for immigration reform, protecting the rights of women, and advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, and pays tribute to military families. He concludes with optimism for the future of America."
Question Answering#
Let’s take a look at this using a question answering chain.
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
qa_chain = load_qa_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")


qa_chain = load_qa_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
qa_document_chain = AnalyzeDocumentChain(combine_docs_chain=qa_chain)
qa_document_chain.run(input_document=state_of_the_union, question="what did the president say about justice breyer?")
' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.'
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Return Source Documents
ConversationalRetrievalChain with search_distance
ConversationalRetrievalChain with map_reduce
ConversationalRetrievalChain with Question Answering with sources
ConversationalRetrievalChain with streaming to stdout
get_chat_history Function
Chat Index#
This notebook goes over how to set up a chain to chat with an index. The only difference between this chain and the RetrievalQAChain is that this allows for passing in of a chat history which can be used to allow for follow up questions.
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.chains import ConversationalRetrievalChain
Load in documents. You can replace this with a loader for whatever type of data you want
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader('../../state_of_the_union.txt')
documents = loader.load()
If you had multiple loaders that you wanted to combine, you do something like:
# loaders = [....]
# docs = []
# for loader in loaders:
#     docs.extend(loader.load())
We now split the documents, create embeddings for them, and put them in a vectorstore. This allows us to do semantic search over them.
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
documents = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
vectorstore = Chroma.from_documents(documents, embeddings)
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
We now initialize the ConversationalRetrievalChain


We now initialize the ConversationalRetrievalChain
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore)
Here’s an example of asking a question with no chat history
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result["answer"]
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
Here’s an example of asking a question with some chat history
chat_history = [(query, result["answer"])]
query = "Did he mention who she suceeded"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']
' Justice Stephen Breyer'
Return Source Documents#
You can also easily return source documents from the ConversationalRetrievalChain. This is useful for when you want to inspect what documents were returned.
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore, return_source_documents=True)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['source_documents'][0]


result['source_documents'][0]
Document(page_content='Tonight. I call on the Senate to: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And while you’re at it, pass the Disclose Act so Americans can know who is funding our elections. \n\nTonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. \n\nOne of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Court. \n\nAnd I did that 4 days ago, when I nominated Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation’s top legal minds, who will continue Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': '../../state_of_the_union.txt'}, lookup_index=0)
ConversationalRetrievalChain with search_distance#
If you are using a vector store that supports filtering by search distance, you can add a threshold value parameter.
vectordbkwargs = {"search_distance": 0.9}
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore, return_source_documents=True)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history, "vectordbkwargs": vectordbkwargs})
ConversationalRetrievalChain with map_reduce#
We can also use different types of combine document chains with the ConversationalRetrievalChain chain.
from langchain.chains import LLMChain
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain


from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
from langchain.chains.chat_index.prompts import CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
question_generator = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT)
doc_chain = load_qa_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain = ConversationalRetrievalChain(
    retriever=vectorstore.as_retriever(),
    question_generator=question_generator,
    combine_docs_chain=doc_chain,
)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = chain({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, from a family of public school educators and police officers, a consensus builder, and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
ConversationalRetrievalChain with Question Answering with sources#
You can also use this chain with the question answering with sources chain.
from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
question_generator = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT)
doc_chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain = ConversationalRetrievalChain(
    retriever=vectorstore.as_retriever(),
    question_generator=question_generator,
    combine_docs_chain=doc_chain,
)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"


chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = chain({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, from a family of public school educators and police officers, a consensus builder, and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. \nSOURCES: ../../state_of_the_union.txt"
ConversationalRetrievalChain with streaming to stdout#
Output from the chain will be streamed to stdout token by token in this example.
from langchain.chains.llm import LLMChain
from langchain.callbacks.base import CallbackManager
from langchain.callbacks.streaming_stdout import StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler
from langchain.chains.chat_index.prompts import CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT, QA_PROMPT
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
# Construct a ChatVectorDBChain with a streaming llm for combine docs
# and a separate, non-streaming llm for question generation
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
streaming_llm = OpenAI(streaming=True, callback_manager=CallbackManager([StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler()]), verbose=True, temperature=0)
question_generator = LLMChain(llm=llm, prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT)
doc_chain = load_qa_chain(streaming_llm, chain_type="stuff", prompt=QA_PROMPT)
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain(
    retriever=vectorstore.as_retriever(), combine_docs_chain=doc_chain, question_generator=question_generator)
chat_history = []


chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
 The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.
chat_history = [(query, result["answer"])]
query = "Did he mention who she suceeded"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
 Justice Stephen Breyer
get_chat_history Function#
You can also specify a get_chat_history function, which can be used to format the chat_history string.
def get_chat_history(inputs) -> str:
    res = []
    for human, ai in inputs:
        res.append(f"Human:{human}\nAI:{ai}")
    return "\n".join(res)
qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore, get_chat_history=get_chat_history)
chat_history = []
query = "What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson"
result = qa({"question": query, "chat_history": chat_history})
result['answer']
" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans."
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Create the graph
Querying the graph
Save the graph
Graph QA#
This notebook goes over how to do question answering over a graph data structure.
Create the graph#
In this section, we construct an example graph. At the moment, this works best for small pieces of text.
from langchain.indexes import GraphIndexCreator
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
index_creator = GraphIndexCreator(llm=OpenAI(temperature=0))
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
    all_text = f.read()
We will use just a small snippet, because extracting the knowledge triplets is a bit intensive at the moment.
text = "\n".join(all_text.split("\n\n")[105:108])
text
'It won’t look like much, but if you stop and look closely, you’ll see a “Field of dreams,” the ground on which America’s future will be built. \nThis is where Intel, the American company that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build its $20 billion semiconductor “mega site”. \nUp to eight state-of-the-art factories in one place. 10,000 new good-paying jobs. '
graph = index_creator.from_text(text)
We can inspect the created graph.
graph.get_triples()
[('Intel', '$20 billion semiconductor "mega site"', 'is going to build'),
 ('Intel', 'state-of-the-art factories', 'is building'),
 ('Intel', '10,000 new good-paying jobs', 'is creating'),
 ('Intel', 'Silicon Valley', 'is helping build'),
 ('Field of dreams',
  "America's future will be built",
  'is the ground on which')]
Querying the graph#


'is the ground on which')]
Querying the graph#
We can now use the graph QA chain to ask question of the graph
from langchain.chains import GraphQAChain
chain = GraphQAChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), graph=graph, verbose=True)
chain.run("what is Intel going to build?")
> Entering new GraphQAChain chain...
Entities Extracted:
 Intel
Full Context:
Intel is going to build $20 billion semiconductor "mega site"
Intel is building state-of-the-art factories
Intel is creating 10,000 new good-paying jobs
Intel is helping build Silicon Valley
> Finished chain.
' Intel is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor "mega site" with state-of-the-art factories, creating 10,000 new good-paying jobs and helping to build Silicon Valley.'
Save the graph#
We can also save and load the graph.
graph.write_to_gml("graph.gml")
from langchain.indexes.graph import NetworkxEntityGraph
loaded_graph = NetworkxEntityGraph.from_gml("graph.gml")
loaded_graph.get_triples()
[('Intel', '$20 billion semiconductor "mega site"', 'is going to build'),
 ('Intel', 'state-of-the-art factories', 'is building'),
 ('Intel', '10,000 new good-paying jobs', 'is creating'),
 ('Intel', 'Silicon Valley', 'is helping build'),
 ('Field of dreams',
  "America's future will be built",
  'is the ground on which')]
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Question Answering with Sources
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
The map-rerank Chain
Question Answering with Sources#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for question answering with sources over a list of documents. It covers four different chain types: stuff, map_reduce, refine,map-rerank. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we do similarity search over a vector database, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.embeddings.cohere import CohereEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores.elastic_vector_search import ElasticVectorSearch
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
with open('../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings, metadatas=[{"source": str(i)} for i in range(len(texts))])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)
from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain


from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer with references ("SOURCES").
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
ALWAYS return a "SOURCES" part in your answer.
Respond in Italian.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
FINAL ANSWER IN ITALIAN:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"])


PROMPT = PromptTemplate(template=template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"])
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': '\nNon so cosa abbia detto il presidente riguardo a Justice Breyer.\nSOURCES: 30, 31, 33'}
The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_map_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [' "Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."',
  ' None',
  ' None',
  ' None'],


' None',
  ' None',
  ' None'],
 'output_text': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service.\nSOURCES: 30-pl'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
question_prompt_template = """Use the following portion of a long document to see if any of the text is relevant to answer the question.
Return any relevant text in Italian.
{context}
Question: {question}
Relevant text, if any, in Italian:"""
QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
combine_prompt_template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer with references ("SOURCES").
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
ALWAYS return a "SOURCES" part in your answer.
Respond in Italian.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
FINAL ANSWER IN ITALIAN:"""
COMBINE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=combine_prompt_template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=QUESTION_PROMPT, combine_prompt=COMBINE_PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\nStasera vorrei onorare qualcuno che ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese: il giustizia Stephen Breyer - un veterano dell'esercito, uno studioso costituzionale e un giustizia in uscita della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Giustizia Breyer, grazie per il tuo servizio.",
  ' Non pertinente.',
  ' Non rilevante.',
  " Non c'è testo pertinente."],
 'output_text': ' Non conosco la risposta. SOURCES: 30, 31, 33, 20.'}
Batch Size
When using the map_reduce chain, one thing to keep in mind is the batch size you are using during the map step. If this is too high, it could cause rate limiting errors. You can control this by setting the batch size on the LLM used. Note that this only applies for LLMs with this parameter. Below is an example of doing so:
llm = OpenAI(batch_size=5, temperature=0)
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': "\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked him for his service and praised his career as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He noted Justice Breyer's reputation as a consensus builder and the broad range of support he has received from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also highlighted the importance of securing the border and fixing the immigration system in order to advance liberty and justice, and mentioned the new technology, joint patrols, dedicated immigration judges, and commitments to support partners in South and Central America that have been put in place. He also expressed his commitment to the LGBTQ+ community, noting the need for the bipartisan Equality Act and the importance of protecting transgender Americans from state laws targeting them. He also highlighted his commitment to bipartisanship, noting the 80 bipartisan bills he signed into law last year, and his plans to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act. Additionally, he announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud and his plan to lower the deficit by more than one trillion dollars in a"}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_intermediate_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. \n\nSource: 31',


'\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. \n\nSource: 31, 33',


'\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. Additionally, he mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud. \n\nSource: 20, 31, 33'],


'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and that he was a retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also thanked Justice Breyer for his service, noting his background as a top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and a family of public school educators and police officers. He praised Justice Breyer for being a consensus builder and for receiving a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. He also noted that in order to advance liberty and justice, it was necessary to secure the border and fix the immigration system, and that the government was taking steps to do both. He also mentioned the need to pass the bipartisan Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans, and to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that he had written three decades ago. Additionally, he mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud. \n\nSource: 20, 31, 33'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
refine_template = (
    "The original question is as follows: {question}\n"
    "We have provided an existing answer, including sources: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing answer"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{context_str}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original answer to better "
    "answer the question (in Italian)"


"answer the question (in Italian)"
    "If you do update it, please update the sources as well. "
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original answer."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],
    template=refine_template,
)
question_template = (
    "Context information is below. \n"
    "---------------------\n"
    "{context_str}"
    "\n---------------------\n"
    "Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
    "answer the question in Italian: {question}\n"
)
question_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["context_str", "question"], template=question_template
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_intermediate_steps=True, question_prompt=question_prompt, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per",


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per"],


'output_text': "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese, ha onorato la sua carriera e ha contribuito a costruire un consenso. Ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Inoltre, ha sottolineato l'importanza di avanzare la libertà e la giustizia attraverso la sicurezza delle frontiere e la risoluzione del sistema di immigrazione. Ha anche menzionato le nuove tecnologie come scanner all'avanguardia per rilevare meglio il traffico di droga, le pattuglie congiunte con Messico e Guatemala per catturare più trafficanti di esseri umani, l'istituzione di giudici di immigrazione dedicati per far sì che le famiglie che fuggono da per"}
The map-rerank Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map-rerank Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", metadata_keys=['source'], return_intermediate_steps=True)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
result = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
result["output_text"]
' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.'
result["intermediate_steps"]
[{'answer': ' The President thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serve the country.',
  'score': '100'},


'score': '100'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' This document does not answer the question', 'score': '0'}]
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
from langchain.output_parsers import RegexParser
output_parser = RegexParser(
    regex=r"(.*?)\nScore: (.*)",
    output_keys=["answer", "score"],
)
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
In addition to giving an answer, also return a score of how fully it answered the user's question. This should be in the following format:
Question: [question here]
Helpful Answer In Italian: [answer here]
Score: [score between 0 and 100]
Begin!
Context:
---------
{context}
---------
Question: {question}
Helpful Answer In Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template,
    input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)
chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", metadata_keys=['source'], return_intermediate_steps=True, prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
result = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
result
{'source': 30,


result
{'source': 30,
 'intermediate_steps': [{'answer': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla Giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'}],
 'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.'}
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Question Answering
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
The map-rerank Chain
Question Answering#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for question answering over a list of documents. It covers four different types of chains: stuff, map_reduce, refine, map_rerank. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we do similarity search over a vector database, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
from langchain.indexes.vectorstore import VectorstoreIndexCreator
index_creator = VectorstoreIndexCreator()
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
loader = TextLoader('../../state_of_the_union.txt')
docsearch = index_creator.from_loaders([loader])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)
from langchain.chains.question_answering import load_qa_chain
from langchain.llms import OpenAI
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain.run(input_documents=docs, question=query)


chain.run(input_documents=docs, question=query)
' The president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his service to the country and that he was a Constitutional scholar, Army veteran, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court.'
If you want more control and understanding over what is happening, please see the information below.
The stuff Chain#
This sections shows results of using the stuff Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president said that he was honoring Justice Breyer for his service to the country and that he was a Constitutional scholar, Army veteran, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
{context}
Question: {question}
Answer in Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", prompt=PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera come giudice della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti.'}


The map_reduce Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map_reduce Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': ' The president said, "Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for map_reduce chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_map_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_map_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [' "Tonight, I’d like to honor someone who has dedicated his life to serve this country: Justice Stephen Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."',
  ' None',
  ' None',
  ' None'],
 'output_text': ' The president said, "Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
question_prompt_template = """Use the following portion of a long document to see if any of the text is relevant to answer the question.
Return any relevant text translated into italian.
{context}
Question: {question}
Relevant text, if any, in Italian:"""
QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)


template=question_prompt_template, input_variables=["context", "question"]
)
combine_prompt_template = """Given the following extracted parts of a long document and a question, create a final answer italian.
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Don't try to make up an answer.
QUESTION: {question}
=========
{summaries}
=========
Answer in Italian:"""
COMBINE_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=combine_prompt_template, input_variables=["summaries", "question"]
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", return_map_steps=True, question_prompt=QUESTION_PROMPT, combine_prompt=COMBINE_PROMPT)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ["\nStasera vorrei onorare qualcuno che ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese: il giustizia Stephen Breyer - un veterano dell'esercito, uno studioso costituzionale e un giustizia in uscita della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Giustizia Breyer, grazie per il tuo servizio.",
  '\nNessun testo pertinente.',
  "\nCome ho detto l'anno scorso, soprattutto ai nostri giovani americani transgender, avrò sempre il tuo sostegno come tuo Presidente, in modo che tu possa essere te stesso e raggiungere il tuo potenziale donato da Dio.",


'\nNella mia amministrazione, i guardiani sono stati accolti di nuovo. Stiamo andando dietro ai criminali che hanno rubato miliardi di dollari di aiuti di emergenza destinati alle piccole imprese e a milioni di americani. E stasera, annuncio che il Dipartimento di Giustizia nominerà un procuratore capo per la frode pandemica.'],
 'output_text': ' Non conosco la risposta alla tua domanda su cosa abbia detto il Presidente riguardo al Giustizia Breyer.'}
Batch Size
When using the map_reduce chain, one thing to keep in mind is the batch size you are using during the map step. If this is too high, it could cause rate limiting errors. You can control this by setting the batch size on the LLM used. Note that this only applies for LLMs with this parameter. Below is an example of doing so:
llm = OpenAI(batch_size=5, temperature=0)
The refine Chain#
This sections shows results of using the refine Chain to do question answering.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine")
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)


chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans and his support for the bipartisan Equality Act. He also mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole pandemic relief funds. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.'}
Intermediate Steps
We can also return the intermediate steps for refine chains, should we want to inspect them. This is done with the return_refine_steps variable.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_refine_steps=True)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country and his legacy of excellence.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice.',
  '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans and his support for the bipartisan Equality Act.',


'\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans and his support for the bipartisan Equality Act. He also mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole pandemic relief funds. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.'],
 'output_text': '\n\nThe president said that he wanted to honor Justice Breyer for his dedication to serving the country, his legacy of excellence, and his commitment to advancing liberty and justice, as well as for his commitment to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans and his support for the bipartisan Equality Act. He also mentioned his plan to lower costs to give families a fair shot, lower the deficit, and go after criminals who stole pandemic relief funds. He also announced that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.'}
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
refine_prompt_template = (
    "The original question is as follows: {question}\n"
    "We have provided an existing answer: {existing_answer}\n"
    "We have the opportunity to refine the existing answer"
    "(only if needed) with some more context below.\n"
    "------------\n"
    "{context_str}\n"
    "------------\n"
    "Given the new context, refine the original answer to better "
    "answer the question. "
    "If the context isn't useful, return the original answer. Reply in Italian."
)
refine_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],


input_variables=["question", "existing_answer", "context_str"],
    template=refine_prompt_template,
)
initial_qa_template = (
    "Context information is below. \n"
    "---------------------\n"
    "{context_str}"
    "\n---------------------\n"
    "Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
    "answer the question: {question}\nYour answer should be in Italian.\n"
)
initial_qa_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["context_str", "question"], template=initial_qa_template
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="refine", return_refine_steps=True,
                     question_prompt=initial_qa_prompt, refine_prompt=refine_prompt)
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': ['\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera. Ha anche detto che la sua nomina di Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continuerà il suo eccezionale lascito.',


"\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera. Ha anche detto che la sua nomina di Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continuerà il suo eccezionale lascito. Ha sottolineato che la sua esperienza come avvocato di alto livello in pratica privata, come ex difensore federale pubblico e come membro di una famiglia di educatori e agenti di polizia, la rende una costruttrice di consenso. Ha anche sottolineato che, dalla sua nomina, ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani.",


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera. Ha anche detto che la sua nomina di Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continuerà il suo eccezionale lascito. Ha sottolineato che la sua esperienza come avvocato di alto livello in pratica privata, come ex difensore federale pubblico e come membro di una famiglia di educatori e agenti di polizia, la rende una costruttrice di consenso. Ha anche sottolineato che, dalla sua nomina, ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Ha inoltre sottolineato che la nomina di Justice Breyer è un passo importante verso l'uguaglianza per tutti gli americani, in partic",


"\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera. Ha anche detto che la sua nomina di Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continuerà il suo eccezionale lascito. Ha sottolineato che la sua esperienza come avvocato di alto livello in pratica privata, come ex difensore federale pubblico e come membro di una famiglia di educatori e agenti di polizia, la rende una costruttrice di consenso. Ha anche sottolineato che, dalla sua nomina, ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Ha inoltre sottolineato che la nomina di Justice Breyer è un passo importante verso l'uguaglianza per tutti gli americani, in partic"],


'output_text': "\n\nIl presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita al servizio di questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera. Ha anche detto che la sua nomina di Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continuerà il suo eccezionale lascito. Ha sottolineato che la sua esperienza come avvocato di alto livello in pratica privata, come ex difensore federale pubblico e come membro di una famiglia di educatori e agenti di polizia, la rende una costruttrice di consenso. Ha anche sottolineato che, dalla sua nomina, ha ricevuto un ampio sostegno, dall'Ordine Fraterno della Polizia a ex giudici nominati da democratici e repubblicani. Ha inoltre sottolineato che la nomina di Justice Breyer è un passo importante verso l'uguaglianza per tutti gli americani, in partic"}
The map-rerank Chain#
This sections shows results of using the map-rerank Chain to do question answering with sources.
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", return_intermediate_steps=True)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
results = chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
results["output_text"]
' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serving the country. '
results["intermediate_steps"]
[{'answer': ' The president thanked Justice Breyer for his service and honored him for dedicating his life to serving the country. ',
  'score': '100'},


'score': '100'},
 {'answer': " The president said that Justice Breyer is a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that since she's been nominated, she's received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans, and that she is a consensus builder.",
  'score': '100'},
 {'answer': ' The president did not mention Justice Breyer in this context.',
  'score': '0'},
 {'answer': ' The president did not mention Justice Breyer in the given context. ',
  'score': '0'}]
Custom Prompts
You can also use your own prompts with this chain. In this example, we will respond in Italian.
from langchain.output_parsers import RegexParser
output_parser = RegexParser(
    regex=r"(.*?)\nScore: (.*)",
    output_keys=["answer", "score"],
)
prompt_template = """Use the following pieces of context to answer the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
In addition to giving an answer, also return a score of how fully it answered the user's question. This should be in the following format:
Question: [question here]
Helpful Answer In Italian: [answer here]
Score: [score between 0 and 100]
Begin!
Context:
---------
{context}
---------
Question: {question}
Helpful Answer In Italian:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    template=prompt_template,
    input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)


input_variables=["context", "question"],
    output_parser=output_parser,
)
chain = load_qa_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_rerank", return_intermediate_steps=True, prompt=PROMPT)
query = "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"
chain({"input_documents": docs, "question": query}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'intermediate_steps': [{'answer': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla Giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'},
  {'answer': ' Non so.', 'score': '0'},
  {'answer': ' Il presidente non ha detto nulla sulla giustizia Breyer.',
   'score': '100'}],
 'output_text': ' Il presidente ha detto che Justice Breyer ha dedicato la sua vita a servire questo paese e ha onorato la sua carriera.'}
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Prepare Data
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By Harrison Chase

      © Copyright 2023, Harrison Chase.

  Last updated on Mar 24, 2023.


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Summarization
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Prepare Data
Quickstart
The stuff Chain
The map_reduce Chain
The refine Chain
Summarization#
This notebook walks through how to use LangChain for summarization over a list of documents. It covers three different chain types: stuff, map_reduce, and refine. For a more in depth explanation of what these chain types are, see here.
Prepare Data#
First we prepare the data. For this example we create multiple documents from one long one, but these documents could be fetched in any manner (the point of this notebook to highlight what to do AFTER you fetch the documents).
from langchain import OpenAI, PromptTemplate, LLMChain
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.chains.mapreduce import MapReduceChain
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter()
with open('../../state_of_the_union.txt') as f:
    state_of_the_union = f.read()
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
docs = [Document(page_content=t) for t in texts[:3]]
from langchain.chains.summarize import load_summarize_chain
Quickstart#
If you just want to get started as quickly as possible, this is the recommended way to do it:
chain = load_summarize_chain(llm, chain_type="map_reduce")
chain.run(docs)