This loader extracts the text from a local Markdown file. A single local file is passed in each time you call load_data.

To use this loader, you need to pass in a Path to a local file.

from pathlib import Path
from llama_index import download_loader

MarkdownReader = download_loader("MarkdownReader")

loader = MarkdownReader()
documents = loader.load_data(file=Path('./README.md'))

This loader is designed to be used as a way to load data into LlamaIndex and/or subsequently used as a Tool in a LangChain Agent. See here for examples.