langchain/docs/versioned_docs/version-0.2.x/how_to/document_loader_markdown.ipynb

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    "# How to load Markdown\n",
    "\n",
    "[Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.\n",
    "\n",
    "Here we cover how to load `Markdown` documents into LangChain [Document](https://api.python.langchain.com/en/latest/documents/langchain_core.documents.base.Document.html#langchain_core.documents.base.Document) objects that we can use downstream.\n",
    "\n",
    "We will cover:\n",
    "\n",
    "- Basic usage;\n",
    "- Parsing of Markdown into elements such as titles, list items, and text.\n",
    "\n",
    "LangChain implements an [UnstructuredMarkdownLoader](https://api.python.langchain.com/en/latest/document_loaders/langchain_community.document_loaders.markdown.UnstructuredMarkdownLoader.html) object which requires the [Unstructured](https://unstructured-io.github.io/unstructured/) package. First we install it:"
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    "# !pip install \"unstructured[md]\""
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    "Basic usage will ingest a Markdown file to a single document. Here we demonstrate on LangChain's readme:"
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      "🦜️🔗 LangChain\n",
      "\n",
      "⚡ Build context-aware reasoning applications ⚡\n",
      "\n",
      "Looking for the JS/TS library? Check out LangChain.js.\n",
      "\n",
      "To help you ship LangChain apps to production faster, check out LangSmith. \n",
      "LangSmith is a unified developer platform for building,\n"
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    "from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredMarkdownLoader\n",
    "from langchain_core.documents import Document\n",
    "\n",
    "markdown_path = \"../../../../README.md\"\n",
    "loader = UnstructuredMarkdownLoader(markdown_path)\n",
    "\n",
    "data = loader.load()\n",
    "assert len(data) == 1\n",
    "assert isinstance(data[0], Document)\n",
    "readme_content = data[0].page_content\n",
    "print(readme_content[:250])"
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    "## Retain Elements\n",
    "\n",
    "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\"`."
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      "Number of documents: 65\n",
      "\n",
      "page_content='🦜️🔗 LangChain' metadata={'source': '../../../../README.md', 'last_modified': '2024-04-29T13:40:19', 'page_number': 1, 'languages': ['eng'], 'filetype': 'text/markdown', 'file_directory': '../../../..', 'filename': 'README.md', 'category': 'Title'}\n",
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    "loader = UnstructuredMarkdownLoader(markdown_path, mode=\"elements\")\n",
    "\n",
    "data = loader.load()\n",
    "print(f\"Number of documents: {len(data)}\\n\")\n",
    "\n",
    "for document in data[:2]:\n",
    "    print(f\"{document}\\n\")"
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    "Note that in this case we recover three distinct element types:"
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    "print(set(document.metadata[\"category\"] for document in data))"
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