BoxLoader and BoxBlobLoader integration

The langchain-box package provides two methods to index your files from Box: BoxLoader and BoxBlobLoader. BoxLoader allows you to ingest text representations of files that have a text representation in Box. The BoxBlobLoader allows you download the blob for any document or image file for processing with the blob parser of your choice. This notebook details getting started with both of these.

Overview

The BoxLoader class helps you get your unstructured content from Box in LangChain’s Document format. You can do this with either a List[str] containing Box file IDs, or with a str containing a Box folder ID. The BoxBlobLoader class helps you get your unstructured content from Box in LangChain’s Blob format. You can do this with a List[str] containing Box file IDs, a str containing a Box folder ID, a search query, or a BoxMetadataQuery. If getting files from a folder with folder ID, you can also set a Bool to tell the loader to get all sub-folders in that folder.

A Box instance can contain Petabytes of files, and folders can contain millions of files. Be intentional when choosing what folders you choose to index. And we recommend never getting all files from folder 0 recursively. Folder ID 0 is your root folder.

The BoxLoader will skip files without a text representation, while the BoxBlobLoader will return blobs for all document and image files.

Integration details

Class	Package	Local	Serializable	JS support
`BoxLoader`	`langchain_box`	✅	❌	❌
`BoxBlobLoader`	`langchain_box`	✅	❌	❌

Loader features

Source	Document Lazy Loading	Async Support
`BoxLoader`	✅	❌
`BoxBlobLoader`	✅	❌

Setup

In order to use the Box package, you will need a few things:

A Box account — If you are not a current Box customer or want to test outside of your production Box instance, you can use a free developer account.
A Box app — This is configured in the developer console, and for Box AI, must have the Manage AI scope enabled. Here you will also select your authentication method
The app must be enabled by the administrator. For free developer accounts, this is whomever signed up for the account.

Credentials

For these examples, we will use token authentication. This can be used with any authentication method. Just get the token with whatever methodology. If you want to learn more about how to use other authentication types with langchain-box, visit the Box provider document.

import getpass
import os

box_developer_token = getpass.getpass("Enter your Box Developer Token: ")

Enter your Box Developer Token:  ········

To enable automated tracing of your model calls, set your LangSmith API key:

os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your LangSmith API key: ")
os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"

Installation

Install langchain_box.

pip install -qU langchain_box

Initialization

Load files

If you wish to load files, you must provide the List of file ids at instantiation time. This requires 1 piece of information:

box_file_ids (List[str])- A list of Box file IDs.

BoxLoader

from langchain_box.document_loaders import BoxLoader

box_file_ids = ["1514555423624", "1514553902288"]

loader = BoxLoader(
    box_developer_token=box_developer_token,
    box_file_ids=box_file_ids,
    character_limit=10000,  # Optional. Defaults to no limit
)

BoxBlobLoader

from langchain_box.blob_loaders import BoxBlobLoader

box_file_ids = ["1514555423624", "1514553902288"]

loader = BoxBlobLoader(
    box_developer_token=box_developer_token, box_file_ids=box_file_ids
)

Load from folder

If you wish to load files from a folder, you must provide a str with the Box folder ID at instantiation time. This requires 1 piece of information:

box_folder_id (str)- A string containing a Box folder ID.

BoxLoader

from langchain_box.document_loaders import BoxLoader

box_folder_id = "260932470532"

loader = BoxLoader(
    box_folder_id=box_folder_id,
    recursive=False,  # Optional. return entire tree, defaults to False
    character_limit=10000,  # Optional. Defaults to no limit
)

BoxBlobLoader

from langchain_box.blob_loaders import BoxBlobLoader

box_folder_id = "260932470532"

loader = BoxBlobLoader(
    box_folder_id=box_folder_id,
    recursive=False,  # Optional. return entire tree, defaults to False
)

Search for files with BoxBlobLoader

If you need to search for files, the BoxBlobLoader offers two methods. First you can perform a full text search with optional search options to narrow down that search. This requires 1 piece of information:

query (str)- A string containing the search query to perform.

You can also provide a BoxSearchOptions object to narrow down that search

box_search_options (BoxSearchOptions)

BoxBlobLoader search

from langchain_box.blob_loaders import BoxBlobLoader
from langchain_box.utilities import BoxSearchOptions, DocumentFiles, SearchTypeFilter

box_folder_id = "260932470532"

box_search_options = BoxSearchOptions(
    ancestor_folder_ids=[box_folder_id],
    search_type_filter=[SearchTypeFilter.FILE_CONTENT],
    created_date_range=["2023-01-01T00:00:00-07:00", "2024-08-01T00:00:00-07:00,"],
    file_extensions=[DocumentFiles.DOCX, DocumentFiles.PDF],
    k=200,
    size_range=[1, 1000000],
    updated_data_range=None,
)

loader = BoxBlobLoader(
    box_developer_token=box_developer_token,
    query="Victor",
    box_search_options=box_search_options,
)

You can also search for content based on Box Metadata. If your Box instance uses Metadata, you can search for any documents that have a specific Metadata Template attached that meet a certain criteria, like returning any invoices with a total greater than or equal to $500 that were created last quarter. This requires 1 piece of information:

query (str)- A string containing the search query to perform.

You can also provide a BoxSearchOptions object to narrow down that search

box_search_options (BoxSearchOptions)

BoxBlobLoader metadata query

from langchain_box.blob_loaders import BoxBlobLoader
from langchain_box.utilities import BoxMetadataQuery

query = BoxMetadataQuery(
    template_key="enterprise_1234.myTemplate",
    query="total >= :value",
    query_params={"value": 100},
    ancestor_folder_id="260932470532",
)

loader = BoxBlobLoader(box_metadata_query=query)

Load

BoxLoader

docs = loader.load()
docs[0]

Document(metadata={'source': 'https://dl.boxcloud.com/api/2.0/internal_files/1514555423624/versions/1663171610024/representations/extracted_text/content/', 'title': 'Invoice-A5555_txt'}, page_content='Vendor: AstroTech Solutions\nInvoice Number: A5555\n\nLine Items:\n    - Gravitational Wave Detector Kit: $800\n    - Exoplanet Terrarium: $120\nTotal: $920')

print(docs[0].metadata)

{'source': 'https://dl.boxcloud.com/api/2.0/internal_files/1514555423624/versions/1663171610024/representations/extracted_text/content/', 'title': 'Invoice-A5555_txt'}

BoxBlobLoader

for blob in loader.yield_blobs():
    print(f"Blob({blob})")

Blob(id='1514555423624' metadata={'source': 'https://app.box.com/0/260935730128/260931903795/Invoice-A5555.txt', 'name': 'Invoice-A5555.txt', 'file_size': 150} data="b'Vendor: AstroTech Solutions\\nInvoice Number: A5555\\n\\nLine Items:\\n    - Gravitational Wave Detector Kit: $800\\n    - Exoplanet Terrarium: $120\\nTotal: $920'" mimetype='text/plain' path='https://app.box.com/0/260935730128/260931903795/Invoice-A5555.txt')
Blob(id='1514553902288' metadata={'source': 'https://app.box.com/0/260935730128/260931903795/Invoice-B1234.txt', 'name': 'Invoice-B1234.txt', 'file_size': 168} data="b'Vendor: Galactic Gizmos Inc.\\nInvoice Number: B1234\\nPurchase Order Number: 001\\nLine Items:\\n    - Quantum Flux Capacitor: $500\\n    - Anti-Gravity Pen Set: $75\\nTotal: $575'" mimetype='text/plain' path='https://app.box.com/0/260935730128/260931903795/Invoice-B1234.txt')

Lazy load

BoxLoader only

page = []
for doc in loader.lazy_load():
    page.append(doc)
    if len(page) >= 10:
        # do some paged operation, e.g.
        # index.upsert(page)

        page = []

Extra fields

All Box connectors offer the ability to select additional fields from the Box FileFull object to return as custom LangChain metadata. Each object accepts an optional List[str] called extra_fields containing the json key from the return object, like extra_fields=["shared_link"]. The connector will add this field to the list of fields the integration needs to function and then add the results to the metadata returned in the Document or Blob, like "metadata" : { "source" : "source, "shared_link" : "shared_link" }. If the field is unavailable for that file, it will be returned as an empty string, like "shared_link" : "".

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Initialization

Load files

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BoxBlobLoader

Load from folder

BoxLoader

BoxBlobLoader

Search for files with BoxBlobLoader

BoxBlobLoader search

BoxBlobLoader metadata query

Load

BoxLoader

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BoxLoader only

Extra fields

Help

​Overview

​Integration details

​Loader features

​Setup

​Credentials

​Installation

​Initialization

​Load files

​BoxLoader

​BoxBlobLoader

​Load from folder

​BoxLoader

​BoxBlobLoader

​Search for files with BoxBlobLoader

​BoxBlobLoader search

​BoxBlobLoader metadata query

​Load

​BoxLoader

​BoxBlobLoader

​Lazy load

​BoxLoader only

​Extra fields

​Help

Overview

Integration details

Loader features

Setup

Credentials

Installation

Initialization

Load files

BoxLoader

BoxBlobLoader

Load from folder

BoxLoader

BoxBlobLoader

Search for files with BoxBlobLoader

BoxBlobLoader search

BoxBlobLoader metadata query

Load

BoxLoader

BoxBlobLoader

Lazy load

BoxLoader only

Extra fields

Help