Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process.
This page covers how to use the Stack 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.utilities import StackExchangeAPIWrapper
For a more detailed walkthrough of this wrapper, see this 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_tools import load_tools
tools = load_tools(["stackexchange"])
For more information on tools, see this page.