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Chromium is one of the browsers supported by Playwright, a library used to control browser automation. By running p.chromium.launch(headless=True), we are launching a headless instance of Chromium. Headless mode means that the browser is running without a graphical user interface. In the below example we’ll use the AsyncChromiumLoader to load the page, and then the Html2TextTransformer to strip out the HTML tags and other semantic information. 
pip install -qU playwright beautifulsoup4 html2text
!playwright install
Note: If you are using Jupyter notebooks, you might also need to install and apply nest_asyncio before loading the documents like this: 
!pip install nest-asyncio
import nest_asyncio

nest_asyncio.apply()

from langchain_community.document_loaders import AsyncChromiumLoader

urls = ["https://docs.smith.langchain.com/"]
loader = AsyncChromiumLoader(urls, user_agent="MyAppUserAgent")
docs = loader.load()
docs[0].page_content[0:100]

'<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="docs-wrapper docs-doc-page docs-version-2.0 plugin-d'
Now let’s transform the documents into a more readable format using the transformer: 
from langchain_community.document_transformers import Html2TextTransformer

html2text = Html2TextTransformer()
docs_transformed = html2text.transform_documents(docs)
docs_transformed[0].page_content[0:500]

'Skip to main content\n\nGo to API Docs\n\nSearch`⌘``K`\n\nGo to App\n\n  * Quick start\n  * Tutorials\n\n  * How-to guides\n\n  * Concepts\n\n  * Reference\n\n  * Pricing\n  * Self-hosting\n\n  * LangGraph Cloud\n\n  *   * Quick start\n\nOn this page\n\n# Get started with LangSmith\n\n**LangSmith** is a platform for building production-grade LLM applications. It\nallows you to closely monitor and evaluate your application, so you can ship\nquickly and with confidence. Use of LangChain is not necessary - LangSmith\nworks on it'
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