google/langextract
A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
About the project
A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs, with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
Useful for
- Extract characters, emotions, and relationships from literary text using few-shot examples
- Structure clinical notes or medical reports into a defined schema
- Review extraction results in an interactive HTML with source-text highlighting
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Why it’s trending
- 65 stars so far today, about 112 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 9 per day, so that's 12× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 13× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending Python today: #11, +154 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 38,839
- Today
- 65 · ≈ 112 by evening
- Forks
- 2,716
- Issues and pull requests
- 494
- Watchers
- 171
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v1.7.0 · September 13, 2026
- Created
- July 8, 2025
- Last push
- September 21, 2026
Star trust
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Spotted in
- September 25, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #10, +154 stars
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