LangChain Reference home page

GitHub
Main Docs

Overview
Caches
Callbacks
Documents
Document loaders
Embeddings
Exceptions
Language models
Serialization
Output parsers
Prompts
Rate limiters
Retrievers
Runnables
Utilities
Vector stores

MCP Adapters

Standard Tests

Text Splitters

⌘I

LangChain Assistant

Ask a question to get started

Enter to send•Shift+Enter new line

Menu

Overview Caches Callbacks Documents Document loaders Embeddings Exceptions Language models Serialization Output parsers Prompts Rate limiters Retrievers Runnables Utilities Vector stores

Language

Theme

Pythonlangchain-coredocument_loadersbaseBaseLoaderload_and_split

Method●Since v0.1

load_and_split

Copy

load_and_split(
    self,
    text_splitter: TextSplitter | None = None,
) -> list[Document]

View source on GitHub

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`text_splitter`	`TextSplitter \| None`	Default:`None` `TextSplitter` instance to use for splitting documents. Defaults to `RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter`.

Load Document and split into chunks. Chunks are returned as Document.

Danger

Do not override this method. It should be considered to be deprecated!