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Oct 11, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Load Documents into LangChain: From Files to APIs

Learn how to use LangChain's Document Loaders to import data from files, web pages, databases, and APIs, understand the Document object structure, compare load() versus lazy_load(), and follow a step‑by‑step Python example that demonstrates loading, inspecting, and optionally processing documents with an LLM.

Document LoaderLLMLangChain
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How to Load Documents into LangChain: From Files to APIs
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Oct 10, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build a Custom Output Parser in LangChain for Non‑Standard LLM Formats

This guide explains why custom output parsers are needed for LangChain when dealing with non‑JSON or XML responses, walks through inheriting BaseOutputParser, implementing parse() and optional format instructions, and provides a complete Python example that converts a simple "Key: Value" string into a dictionary.

CustomParserLLMLangChain
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How to Build a Custom Output Parser in LangChain for Non‑Standard LLM Formats
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Oct 8, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Turn LLM Text into Structured Data with LangChain Output Parsers

This article explains why LLMs output plain text, introduces LangChain output parsers as the bridge to structured data, details their workflow, reviews built‑in parsers, and walks through a complete Python example that builds a prompt‑model‑parser chain to generate a JSON‑based joke.

LLMLangChainOutputParser
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How to Turn LLM Text into Structured Data with LangChain Output Parsers
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Oct 6, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Master Few-Shot Prompting with LangChain’s Example Selectors

The article explains why few-shot prompting benefits from dynamically selecting a small set of relevant examples, introduces LangChain’s ExampleSelector component, compares three selector strategies—LengthBased, SemanticSimilarity, and MaxMarginalRelevance—detailing their algorithms, advantages, drawbacks, and provides step-by-step Python code demonstrations for each.

AIEmbeddingExample selector
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How to Master Few-Shot Prompting with LangChain’s Example Selectors