Google Classroom integration

Google Classroom is a free learning management system developed by Google as part of Google Workspace for Education. It helps educators manage coursework, assignments, and communication.

This page covers how to load data from Google Classroom using the GoogleClassroomLoader. The loader fetches courses, assignments (courseWork), announcements, course materials, student submissions, rubrics, topics, and class rosters from the Classroom API and converts each item into a LangChain Document. When file attachments are present on classroom items, the loader automatically downloads and parses them from Google Drive—supporting PDF, DOCX, CSV, plain text, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and images. Learn more about the package on GitHub.

Overview

Class	Package	Serializable
`GoogleClassroomLoader`	`langchain-google-classroom`	✅

Integration details

Source	Document Lazy Loading	Async Support
`GoogleClassroomLoader`	✅	✅

Prerequisites

To use this loader, you will need:

A Google Cloud project
The Classroom API enabled
The Drive API enabled (for file attachments)
One of the following authentication methods:
- OAuth 2.0 credentials—for personal Google accounts or testing
- Service Account credentials—for Google Workspace domains (production)

Installation

Install the integration package:

pip install -qU langchain-google-classroom

To enable parsing of PDF and DOCX attachments, install with the optional parsers extra:

pip install -qU "langchain-google-classroom[parsers]"

Credentials

Option A: OAuth 2.0 (personal accounts)

In the Google Cloud Console, create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID (Desktop application).
Download the client secrets file and save it as credentials.json in your working directory.
On first run, a browser window will open for user consent. The resulting token is cached to token.json for subsequent runs.

from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader()
# Opens browser for OAuth consent on first run
docs = loader.load()

Option B: Service Account (Google Workspace)

In the Google Cloud Console, create a Service Account.
Enable Domain-Wide Delegation for the service account.
Download the key file and save it as service_account.json.

from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    service_account_file="service_account.json",
)
docs = loader.load()

Instantiation

from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],  # Optional: specific courses. Loads all if omitted.
    load_assignments=True,     # courseWork items (default: True)
    load_announcements=True,   # announcements (default: True)
    load_materials=True,       # courseWorkMaterials (default: True)
    load_attachments=True,     # resolve Drive file attachments (default: True)
)

Constructor parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`course_ids`	`list[str]` or `None`	`None`	Course IDs to load. Loads all accessible courses when `None`.
`load_assignments`	`bool`	`True`	Load courseWork items.
`load_announcements`	`bool`	`True`	Load announcements.
`load_materials`	`bool`	`True`	Load courseWork materials.
`load_attachments`	`bool`	`True`	Download and yield Drive file attachments.
`parse_attachments`	`bool`	`True`	Parse attachment content using built-in parsers (install `langchain-google-classroom[parsers]` for PDF/DOCX support, or set `parse_attachments=False` to skip parsing).
`file_parser_cls`	`type[BaseBlobParser]` or `None`	`None`	Custom parser class to use for attachments (replaces built-in parsers).
`load_submissions`	`bool`	`False`	Load student submissions. Adds the required scope automatically.
`load_topics`	`bool`	`False`	Load course topics. Adds the required scope automatically.
`load_roster`	`bool`	`False`	Load student and teacher roster. Adds the required scope automatically.
`load_images`	`bool`	`False`	Process image attachments (requires a `vision_model`).
`vision_model`	`BaseChatModel` or `None`	`None`	Vision-capable LLM for image understanding in PDFs and images.
`max_file_size`	`int`	`50000000`	Maximum attachment file size in bytes. Files larger than this are skipped.
`service_account_file`	`str` or `None`	`None`	Path to a service-account key JSON file.
`token_file`	`str` or `None`	`None`	Path to a cached OAuth token JSON file.
`client_secrets_file`	`str` or `None`	`None`	Path to an OAuth client-secrets JSON file.

Load documents

Use load() to fetch all documents at once:

from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
)
docs = loader.load()
print(f"Loaded {len(docs)} documents")

Each Document has structured page_content and rich metadata:

doc = docs[0]
print(doc.page_content[:200])
print(doc.metadata)

# Example metadata
{
    "source": "google_classroom",
    "content_type": "assignment",
    "course_id": "123456789",
    "course_name": "Introduction to Computer Science",
    "title": "Week 3: Data Structures",
    "created_time": "2025-03-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "updated_time": "2025-03-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "alternate_link": "https://classroom.google.com/...",
}

Lazy loading

For large courses or memory-constrained environments, use lazy_load() to stream documents one at a time:

from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
)

for doc in loader.lazy_load():
    print(f"[{doc.metadata['content_type']}] {doc.metadata.get('title', '')}")

Async loading

The loader supports async iteration via alazy_load():

import asyncio
from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader


async def main():
    loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
        course_ids=["123456789"],
    )
    docs = []
    async for doc in loader.alazy_load():
        docs.append(doc)
    return docs


docs = asyncio.run(main())

Loading additional data types

Student submissions

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
    load_submissions=True,
)
docs = loader.load()
# Includes documents with content_type="submission"

Topics

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
    load_topics=True,
)
docs = loader.load()
# Includes documents with content_type="topic"

Class roster (students and teachers)

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
    load_roster=True,
)
docs = loader.load()
# Includes documents with content_type="student" and content_type="teacher"

File attachment parsing

When load_attachments=True (the default), the loader resolves Google Drive file attachments on each classroom item and parses them into additional Document objects.

Supported formats

Format	Parser	Notes
PDF	`PDFParser`	Extracts text; optional vision LLM for embedded images
DOCX	`DocxParser`	Extracts text and tables
CSV	`CSVParser`	One document per row with header-aware formatting
Plain text	`TextParser`	UTF-8 decoding
Images (PNG, JPEG, etc.)	`ImageParser`	Requires `vision_model` and `load_images=True`
Google Docs/Sheets/Slides	Exported then parsed	Auto-exported to PDF/CSV/plain text via Drive API

Using a vision LLM for images

To process image attachments and extract visual context from PDF pages, provide a vision-capable model:

from langchain_google_genai import ChatGoogleGenerativeAI
from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
    load_attachments=True,
    load_images=True,
    vision_model=ChatGoogleGenerativeAI(model="gemini-2.0-flash"),
)
docs = loader.load()

Using a custom file parser

You can replace the built-in parsers with any BaseBlobParser subclass:

from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers.pdf import PyMuPDFParser
from langchain_google_classroom import GoogleClassroomLoader

loader = GoogleClassroomLoader(
    course_ids=["123456789"],
    file_parser_cls=PyMuPDFParser,
)
docs = loader.load()

API reference

PyPI: langchain-google-classroom
Source: GitHub

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Overview

Integration details

Prerequisites

Installation

Credentials

Option A: OAuth 2.0 (personal accounts)

Option B: Service Account (Google Workspace)

Instantiation

Constructor parameters

Load documents

Lazy loading

Async loading

Loading additional data types

Student submissions

Topics

Class roster (students and teachers)

File attachment parsing

Supported formats

Using a vision LLM for images

Using a custom file parser

API reference

​Overview

​Integration details

​Prerequisites

​Installation

​Credentials

​Option A: OAuth 2.0 (personal accounts)

​Option B: Service Account (Google Workspace)

​Instantiation

​Constructor parameters

​Load documents

​Lazy loading

​Async loading

​Loading additional data types

​Student submissions

​Topics

​Class roster (students and teachers)

​File attachment parsing

​Supported formats

​Using a vision LLM for images

​Using a custom file parser

​API reference

Overview

Integration details

Prerequisites

Installation

Credentials

Option A: OAuth 2.0 (personal accounts)

Option B: Service Account (Google Workspace)

Instantiation

Constructor parameters

Load documents

Lazy loading

Async loading

Loading additional data types

Student submissions

Topics

Class roster (students and teachers)

File attachment parsing

Supported formats

Using a vision LLM for images

Using a custom file parser

API reference