Source code for langchain.document_loaders.hn
from typing import Any, List
from langchain.docstore.document import Document
from langchain.document_loaders.web_base import WebBaseLoader
[docs]class HNLoader(WebBaseLoader):
    """Load `Hacker News` data.
    It loads data from either main page results or the comments page."""
[docs]    def load(self) -> List[Document]:
        """Get important HN webpage information.
        HN webpage components are:
            - title
            - content
            - source url,
            - time of post
            - author of the post
            - number of comments
            - rank of the post
        """
        soup_info = self.scrape()
        if "item" in self.web_path:
            return self.load_comments(soup_info)
        else:
            return self.load_results(soup_info)
[docs]    def load_comments(self, soup_info: Any) -> List[Document]:
        """Load comments from a HN post."""
        comments = soup_info.select("tr[class='athing comtr']")
        title = soup_info.select_one("tr[id='pagespace']").get("title")
        return [
            Document(
                page_content=comment.text.strip(),
                metadata={"source": self.web_path, "title": title},
            )
            for comment in comments
        ]
[docs]    def load_results(self, soup: Any) -> List[Document]:
        """Load items from an HN page."""
        items = soup.select("tr[class='athing']")
        documents = []
        for lineItem in items:
            ranking = lineItem.select_one("span[class='rank']").text