langchain_community.document_loaders.base.BaseLoader

class langchain_community.document_loaders.base.BaseLoader

Interface for Document Loader.

Implementations should implement the lazy-loading method using generators to avoid loading all Documents into memory at once.

The load method will remain as is for backwards compatibility, but its implementation should be just list(self.lazy_load()).

Methods

__init__()
lazy_load()	A lazy loader for Documents.
load()	Load data into Document objects.
load_and_split([text_splitter])	Load Documents and split into chunks.

__init__()

lazy_load() → Iterator[Document]

A lazy loader for Documents.

abstract load() → List[Document]

Load data into Document objects.

load_and_split(text_splitter: Optional[TextSplitter] = None) → List[Document]

Load Documents and split into chunks. Chunks are returned as Documents.

Parameters

text_splitter – TextSplitter instance to use for splitting documents. Defaults to RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.

Returns

List of Documents.

Examples using BaseLoader

• Indexing