langchain_community.document_loaders.blackboard.BlackboardLoader

class langchain_community.document_loaders.blackboard.BlackboardLoader(blackboard_course_url: str, bbrouter: str, load_all_recursively: bool = True, basic_auth: Optional[Tuple[str, str]] = None, cookies: Optional[dict] = None, continue_on_failure: bool = False)

Load a Blackboard course.

This loader is not compatible with all Blackboard courses. It is only compatible with courses that use the new Blackboard interface. To use this loader, you must have the BbRouter cookie. You can get this cookie by logging into the course and then copying the value of the BbRouter cookie from the browser’s developer tools.

Example

from langchain_community.document_loaders import BlackboardLoader

loader = BlackboardLoader(
    blackboard_course_url="https://blackboard.example.com/webapps/blackboard/execute/announcement?method=search&context=course_entry&course_id=_123456_1",
    bbrouter="expires:12345...",
)
documents = loader.load()

Initialize with blackboard course url.

The BbRouter cookie is required for most blackboard courses.

Parameters

• blackboard_course_url (str) – Blackboard course url.

• bbrouter (str) – BbRouter cookie.

• load_all_recursively (bool) – If True, load all documents recursively.

• basic_auth (Optional[Tuple[str, str]]) – Basic auth credentials.

• cookies (Optional[dict]) – Cookies.

• continue_on_failure (bool) – whether to continue loading the sitemap if an error occurs loading a url, emitting a warning instead of raising an exception. Setting this to True makes the loader more robust, but also may result in missing data. Default: False

Raises

ValueError – If blackboard course url is invalid.

Attributes

web_path

Methods

__init__(blackboard_course_url, bbrouter[, ...])	Initialize with blackboard course url.
alazy_load()	A lazy loader for Documents.
aload()	Load text from the urls in web_path async into Documents.
check_bs4()	Check if BeautifulSoup4 is installed.
download(path)	Download a file from an url.
fetch_all(urls)	Fetch all urls concurrently with rate limiting.
lazy_load()	Lazy load text from the url(s) in web_path.
load()	Load data into Document objects.
load_and_split([text_splitter])	Load Documents and split into chunks.
parse_filename(url)	Parse the filename from an url.
scrape([parser])	Scrape data from webpage and return it in BeautifulSoup format.
scrape_all(urls[, parser])	Fetch all urls, then return soups for all results.

__init__(blackboard_course_url: str, bbrouter: str, load_all_recursively: bool = True, basic_auth: Optional[Tuple[str, str]] = None, cookies: Optional[dict] = None, continue_on_failure: bool = False)

Initialize with blackboard course url.

The BbRouter cookie is required for most blackboard courses.

Parameters

• blackboard_course_url (str) – Blackboard course url.

• bbrouter (str) – BbRouter cookie.

• load_all_recursively (bool) – If True, load all documents recursively.

• basic_auth (Optional[Tuple[str, str]]) – Basic auth credentials.

• cookies (Optional[dict]) – Cookies.

• continue_on_failure (bool) – whether to continue loading the sitemap if an error occurs loading a url, emitting a warning instead of raising an exception. Setting this to True makes the loader more robust, but also may result in missing data. Default: False

Raises

ValueError – If blackboard course url is invalid.

async alazy_load() → AsyncIterator[Document]

A lazy loader for Documents.

Return type

AsyncIterator[Document]

aload() → List[Document]

Load text from the urls in web_path async into Documents.

Return type

List[Document]

check_bs4() → None

Check if BeautifulSoup4 is installed.

Raises

ImportError – If BeautifulSoup4 is not installed.

Return type

None

download(path: str) → None

Download a file from an url.

Parameters

path (str) – Path to the file.

Return type

None

async fetch_all(urls: List[str]) → Any

Fetch all urls concurrently with rate limiting.

Parameters

urls (List[str]) –

Return type

Any

lazy_load() → Iterator[Document]

Lazy load text from the url(s) in web_path.

Return type

Iterator[Document]

load() → List[Document]

Load data into Document objects.

Returns

List of Documents.

Return type

List[Document]

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

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

Do not override this method. It should be considered to be deprecated!

Parameters

text_splitter (Optional[TextSplitter]) – TextSplitter instance to use for splitting documents. Defaults to RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.

Returns

List of Documents.

Return type

List[Document]

parse_filename(url: str) → str

Parse the filename from an url.

Parameters

url (str) – Url to parse the filename from.

Returns

The filename.

Return type

str

scrape(parser: Optional[str] = None) → Any

Scrape data from webpage and return it in BeautifulSoup format.

Parameters

parser (Optional[str]) –

Return type

Any

scrape_all(urls: List[str], parser: Optional[str] = None) → List[Any]

Fetch all urls, then return soups for all results.

Parameters

• urls (List[str]) –

• parser (Optional[str]) –

Return type

List[Any]

Examples using BlackboardLoader

• Blackboard

• blackboard.md