Stack Exchange is a network ofquestion-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site coveringa specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process.

This page covers how to use theStack Exchange API within LangChain.

Installation and Setup​

• Install requirements with

pip install stackapi

Wrappers​

Utility​

There exists a StackExchangeAPIWrapper utility which wraps this API. To import this utility:

from langchain_community.utilitiesimport StackExchangeAPIWrapper

For a more detailed walkthrough of this wrapper, seethis notebook.

Tool​

You can also easily load this wrapper as a Tool (to use with an Agent).You can do this with:

from langchain_community.agent_toolkits.load_toolsimport load_tools
tools= load_tools(["stackexchange"])

For more information on tools, seethis page.