Okay!!!!!!!!

README.md

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Now lets setup the SurfSense BackEnd
 |ENV VARIABLE|Description  |
 |--|--|
 | IS_LOCAL_SETUP | 'true' for Ollama mistral-nemo or 'false' from OpenAI gpt-4o-mini|
+| UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY | Your Unstructured IO API Key. Use any value if running a local instance or file upload support isn't needed.|
 | POSTGRES_DATABASE_URL | postgresql+psycopg2://user:pass@host:5432/database|
 | API_SECRET_KEY | Can be any Random String value. Make Sure to remember it for as you need to send it in user registration request to Backend for security purposes.|
 

backend/.env.example

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #true if you wana run local setup with Ollama 
 IS_LOCAL_SETUP = 'false'
 
+#Your Unstructured IO API Key. Use any value if running a local instance or file upload support isn't needed.
+UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY = ""
+
 #POSTGRES DB TO TRACK USERS
 POSTGRES_DATABASE_URL = "postgresql+psycopg2://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/surfsense"
 

backend/server.py

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES = int(os.environ.get("ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES"))
 ALGORITHM = os.environ.get("ALGORITHM")
 API_SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get("API_SECRET_KEY")
 SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get("SECRET_KEY")
+UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY = os.environ.get("UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY")
 
 app = FastAPI()
 
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ async def upload_files(files: list[UploadFile], token: str = Depends(oauth2_sche
             
             loader = UnstructuredLoader(
                     file=file.file, 
-                    api_key="nWDzKHygqnQzbb1pBsxYnMoQ3nQBja",
+                    api_key=UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY,
                     partition_via_api=True,
                     chunking_strategy="basic",
                     max_characters=90000,