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feat(community): Adds an HTML loader for URLS #7184

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I recently discovered the same issue that was reported in #2467. The documentation and examples suggest chaining the CheerioWebBaseLoader with MozillaReadabilityTransformer to load and transform HTML documents. However, the CheerioWebBaseLoader uses Cheerio's text method to extract the text from the HTML document, or provided selector. This is great if you want the text, but the MozillaReadabilityTransformer needs to act on HTML.

I have added an HTMLWebBaseLoader that simply uses fetch to get an HTML document and returns the full HTML content.

I've also updated the MozillaReadabilityTransformer example to use the HTMLWebBaseLoader instead of the CheerioWebBaseLoader.

Fixes #2467

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@jacoblee93 jacoblee93 changed the title Adds an HTML loader for URLS feat(community): Adds an HTML loader for URLS Nov 12, 2024
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Thanks for this! Looks great.

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Sorry, noticed one small thing. Can you also run yarn format?

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@jacoblee93 I moved the WebBaseLoader and WebBaseLoaderParams to the HTML loader as they were relevant and it seems that loaders export their own types. I also added the selector property back to WebBaseLoaderParams and deprecated it from there.

I then imported and re-exported the WebBaseLoaderParams from the Cheerio loader with deprecation, so that it doesn't break for anyone that was importing it from here.

Hope that's all ok!

I recently discovered the same issue that was reported in langchain-ai#2467. The documentation and examples suggest chaining the `CheerioWebBaseLoader` with `MozillaReadabilityTransformer` to load and transform HTML documents. However, the `CheerioWebBaseLoader` uses [Cheerio's `text` method to extract the text](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs/blob/05e5813715150cd69d9e384924818562e3b7c1fa/libs/langchain-community/src/document_loaders/web/cheerio.ts#L144C34-L144C40) from the HTML document, or provided selector. This is great if you want the text, but the MozillaReadabilityTransformer needs to act on HTML.

I have added an `HTMLWebBaseLoader` that simply uses `fetch` to get an HTML document and returns the full HTML content.

I've also updated the `MozillaReadabilityTransformer` example to use the `HTMLWebBaseLoader` instead of the `CheerioWebBaseLoader`.
I moved the WebBaseLoader and WebBaseLoaderParams to the HTML loader
as they were relevant and it seems that loaders export their own types.
I also added the `selector` property back to WebBaseLoaderParams and
deprecated it from there. I then imported and re-exported the
WebBaseLoaderParams from the Cheerio loader with deprecation, so that
it doesn't break for anyone that was importing it from here.
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Force pushed to fix the merge conflict.

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@jacoblee93 can we trigger the jobs again to see if this is looking good? Thanks!

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