Slack
This notebook shows how to use the Slack chat loader. This class helps map exported slack conversations to LangChain chat messages.
The process has three steps:
- Export the desired conversation thread by following the instructions here.
- Create the
SlackChatLoader
with the file path pointed to the json file or directory of JSON files - Call
loader.load()
(orloader.lazy_load()
) to perform the conversion. Optionally usemerge_chat_runs
to combine message from the same sender in sequence, and/ormap_ai_messages
to convert messages from the specified sender to the "AIMessage" class.
1. Create message dump
Currently (2023/08/23) this loader best supports a zip directory of files in the format generated by exporting your a direct message conversation from Slack. Follow up-to-date instructions from slack on how to do so.
We have an example in the LangChain repo.
import requests
permalink = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/langchain-ai/langchain/342087bdfa3ac31d622385d0f2d09cf5e06c8db3/libs/langchain/tests/integration_tests/examples/slack_export.zip"
response = requests.get(permalink)
with open("slack_dump.zip", "wb") as f:
f.write(response.content)
2. Create the Chat Loader
Provide the loader with the file path to the zip directory. You can optionally specify the user id that maps to an ai message as well an configure whether to merge message runs.
from langchain_community.chat_loaders.slack import SlackChatLoader
API Reference:
loader = SlackChatLoader(
path="slack_dump.zip",
)
3. Load messages
The load()
(or lazy_load
) methods return a list of "ChatSessions" that currently just contain a list of messages per loaded conversation.
from typing import List
from langchain_community.chat_loaders.utils import (
map_ai_messages,
merge_chat_runs,
)
from langchain_core.chat_sessions import ChatSession
raw_messages = loader.lazy_load()
# Merge consecutive messages from the same sender into a single message
merged_messages = merge_chat_runs(raw_messages)
# Convert messages from "U0500003428" to AI messages
messages: List[ChatSession] = list(
map_ai_messages(merged_messages, sender="U0500003428")
)
API Reference:
Next Steps
You can then use these messages how you see fit, such as fine-tuning a model, few-shot example selection, or directly make predictions for the next message.
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
llm = ChatOpenAI()
for chunk in llm.stream(messages[1]["messages"]):
print(chunk.content, end="", flush=True)
API Reference:
Hi,
I hope you're doing well. I wanted to reach out and ask if you'd be available to meet up for coffee sometime next week. I'd love to catch up and hear about what's been going on in your life. Let me know if you're interested and we can find a time that works for both of us.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Best, [Your Name]