Python SDK for the Unstructured API

This is a Python client for the Unstructured API.

SDK Installation

pip install unstructured-client

Usage

Only the files parameter is required. See the general partition page for all available parameters. 

from unstructured_client import UnstructuredClient
from unstructured_client.models import shared
from unstructured_client.models.errors import SDKError

s = UnstructuredClient(api_key_auth="YOUR_API_KEY")

filename = "sample-docs/layout-parser-paper.pdf"
file = open(filename, "rb")

req = shared.PartitionParameters(
    # Note that this currently only supports a single file
    files=shared.Files(
        content=file.read(),
        file_name=filename,
    ),
    # Other partition params
    strategy="fast",
)

try:
    res = s.general.partition(req)
    print(res.elements[0])
except SDKError as e:
    print(e)

# {
#  'type': 'Title',
#  'element_id': '015301d4f56aa4b20ec10ac889d2343f',
#  'metadata': {'filename': 'layout-parser-paper.pdf', 'filetype': 'application/pdf', 'page_number': 1},
#  'text': 'LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis'
# }

Change the base URL

If you are self hosting the API, or developing locally, you can change the server URL when setting up the client.

# Using a local server
s = unstructured_client.UnstructuredClient(
    server_url="http://localhost:8000",
    api_key_auth=api_key,
)

# Using your own server
s = unstructured_client.UnstructuredClient(
    server_url="https://your-server",
    api_key_auth=api_key,
)

Custom HTTP Client

The Python SDK makes API calls using the (requests)[https://pypi.org/project/requests/] HTTP library. In order to provide a convenient way to configure timeouts, cookies, proxies, custom headers, and other low-level configuration, you can initialize the SDK client with a custom requests.Session object.

For example, you could specify a header for every request that this sdk makes as follows:

import unstructured_client
import requests

http_client = requests.Session()
http_client.headers.update({'x-custom-header': 'someValue'})
s = unstructured_client.UnstructuredClient(client: http_client)

Maturity

This SDK is in beta, and there may be breaking changes between versions without a major version update. Therefore, we recommend pinning usage to a specific package version. This way, you can install the same version each time without breaking changes unless you are intentionally looking for the latest version.

Contributions

While we value open-source contributions to this SDK, this library is generated programmatically. Feel free to open a PR or a Github issue as a proof of concept and we'll do our best to include it in a future release!

SDK Created by Speakeasy