Slack is an instant messaging program.

This notebook covers how to load documents from a Zipfile generated from aSlack export.

In order to get thisSlack export, follow these instructions:

🧑 Instructions for ingesting your own dataset​

Export your Slack data. You can do this by going to your Workspace Management page and clicking the Import/Export option ({your_slack_domain}.slack.com/services/export). Then, choose the right date range and clickStart export. Slack will send you an email and a DM when the export is ready.

The download will produce a.zip file in your Downloads folder (or wherever your downloads can be found, depending on your OS configuration).

Copy the path to the.zip file, and assign it asLOCAL_ZIPFILE below.

from langchain_community.document_loadersimport SlackDirectoryLoader

# Optionally set your Slack URL. This will give you proper URLs in the docs sources.
SLACK_WORKSPACE_URL="https://xxx.slack.com"
LOCAL_ZIPFILE=""# Paste the local path to your Slack zip file here.

loader= SlackDirectoryLoader(LOCAL_ZIPFILE, SLACK_WORKSPACE_URL)

docs= loader.load()
docs

Related​

• Document loaderconceptual guide
• Document loaderhow-to guides