langchain-tabstack

Give your LangChain agents reliable web access. Schema-enforced extraction, multi-source research, AI transformation, and browser automation, all as native LangChain tools backed by the official Tabstack SDK.

Why Tabstack

LangChain's built-in loaders (WebBaseLoader, PlaywrightURLLoader) are fine for prototypes and brittle in production: unpredictable parsing, Playwright binaries to install and maintain, and behaviour that drifts across LangChain releases.

Tabstack replaces them with a hosted API:

• Schema-enforced output. You define the shape, you get that shape back. No prompt-engineering the JSON out of raw text.
• No browser to run. JS-heavy pages render server-side. No Playwright, no binaries.
• Version-independent. It is an SDK call, not a loader coupled to your LangChain version.
• Sync and async. Every tool supports invoke and native ainvoke.

Install

pip install langchain-tabstack

Requires Python 3.9+. For the agent example below you also need a chat model, for example pip install langchain langchain-openai. Set your API key (get one at console.tabstack.ai):

export TABSTACK_API_KEY="your-key-here"

Quickstart

from langchain.agents import create_agent
from langchain_tabstack import TABSTACK_TOOLS

agent = create_agent(
    "openai:gpt-4o",
    tools=TABSTACK_TOOLS,
    system_prompt=(
        "You are a research assistant with web intelligence tools. "
        "Use extract_structured_data for specific fields from a URL, "
        "extract_page_content for full page text, and research_question for multi-source research."
    ),
)

result = agent.invoke(
    {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What are Vercel's pricing plans?"}]}
)
print(result["messages"][-1].content)

TABSTACK_TOOLS reads TABSTACK_API_KEY from the environment and is ready to drop into any agent.

Using LangChain 0.x? create_agent is the LangChain 1.x replacement for AgentExecutor + create_tool_calling_agent. The tools themselves work with either.

The tools

Tool	What it does
extract_structured_data	Pull specific fields from a URL into a JSON shape you define.
extract_page_content	Fetch a page as clean markdown.
research_question	Synthesised answer with cited sources across multiple pages.
generate_structured_data	Fetch a page, then AI-transform it into derived or reshaped JSON.
automate_browser_task	Run a multi-step, natural-language browser task.

Every tool is exported individually too, so you can use one directly without an agent. Tools return a JSON string (use json.loads); extract_page_content returns markdown text directly.

extract_structured_data

import json
from langchain_tabstack import extract_structured_data_tool

raw = extract_structured_data_tool.invoke(
    {
        "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com",
        # json_schema_json is a JSON-encoded JSON Schema describing the fields you want.
        "json_schema_json": json.dumps(
            {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "stories": {
                        "type": "array",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "properties": {
                                "title": {"type": "string"},
                                "points": {"type": "number", "description": "Story points"},
                            },
                        },
                    }
                },
            }
        ),
    }
)
data = json.loads(raw)
print(data["stories"])

extract_page_content

from langchain_tabstack import extract_page_content_tool

markdown = extract_page_content_tool.invoke({"url": "https://example.com/blog/article"})

research_question

import json
from langchain_tabstack import research_question_tool

result = json.loads(
    research_question_tool.invoke(
        {"query": "What are the latest developments in quantum error correction?"}
    )
)
print(result["answer"])
for source in result["sources"]:  # [{"title": ..., "url": ...}, ...]
    print(source["url"])

generate_structured_data

import json
from langchain_tabstack import generate_structured_data_tool

raw = generate_structured_data_tool.invoke(
    {
        "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com",
        "instructions": "For each story, categorize it and write a one-sentence summary.",
        "json_schema_json": json.dumps(
            {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "summaries": {
                        "type": "array",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "properties": {
                                "title": {"type": "string"},
                                "category": {"type": "string"},
                                "summary": {"type": "string"},
                            },
                        },
                    }
                },
            }
        ),
    }
)

automate_browser_task

import json
from langchain_tabstack import automate_browser_task_tool

result = json.loads(
    automate_browser_task_tool.invoke(
        {
            "task": "Find the top 3 trending repositories and their star counts",
            "url": "https://github.com/trending",
            "guardrails": "browse and extract only, do not submit forms",
        }
    )
)
# {"answer", "success", "iterations", "actions", "duration_ms", "extracted", "pages_visited"}

Optional inputs

Pass these alongside the required inputs for finer control. They are sent only when provided, so omitting them keeps Tabstack's defaults.

• extract_structured_data, extract_page_content, generate_structured_data:
  • effort: "min" | "standard" | "max". Use "max" for JS-heavy pages (full server-side browser rendering, the PlaywrightURLLoader replacement).
  • nocache: True to bypass the cache.
  • country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (for example "US") for geotargeted fetches.
• research_question: mode ("fast" | "balanced"), nocache.
• automate_browser_task: data (context for form filling), country, max_iterations, max_validation_attempts.

# Render a JS-heavy SPA, fresh, from the UK:
extract_page_content_tool.invoke(
    {"url": url, "effort": "max", "nocache": True, "country": "GB"}
)

Async

Every tool supports ainvoke natively, backed by AsyncTabstack, so it runs in your event loop without a thread-pool bounce:

markdown = await extract_page_content_tool.ainvoke({"url": "https://example.com"})

Configuration

For a custom API key or base URL, or to reuse one client, build the tools explicitly:

from langchain_tabstack import create_tabstack_tools

tools = create_tabstack_tools(api_key="...")
# or pass clients you already have:
# create_tabstack_tools(client=..., async_client=...)

Error handling

Tool calls raise TabstackToolError with a normalised message and, for API failures, an HTTP status:

from langchain_tabstack import TabstackToolError, extract_page_content_tool

try:
    extract_page_content_tool.invoke({"url": "https://example.com"})
except TabstackToolError as err:
    print(f"Tabstack failed ({err.status or 'no status'}): {err}")

Good to know

• automate_browser_task runs non-interactively. It does not pause for human-in-the-loop form input, so it never blocks. It returns the final answer plus the data it extracted and the pages it visited.
• The client is created lazily, so importing the package never requires an API key to be set.
• The tool names, descriptions, and inputs match the @tabstack/langchain (LangChain.js) and @tabstack/ai (Vercel AI SDK) packages, so behaviour is consistent across languages and frameworks. Those return native objects with camelCase keys; this package returns JSON strings with snake_case keys, the LangChain-Python convention. The data is the same.

Links

• Tabstack docs
• Tabstack SDK (tabstack)
• Get an API key