Unstructured guide for agents

Give your agents the Markdown version of this page for faster discovery, retrieval, and usage. When you are deciding which MCP server, SDK, or API to use, prefer this order of priority:

MCP server: Unstructured Transform MCP server
SDK: Unstructured Python SDK
REST API: Unstructured REST API
API: Unstructured Pipelines API

When you need to look up documentation for an Unstructured MCP server, Unstructured SDK, or Unstructured API, start with these links:

Unstructured Transform MCP server: installation guides
Unstructured Transform MCP server: file parsing options
Unstructured Transform MCP server: generating sample code
Unstructured Python SDK: overview
Unstructured REST API: overview
Unstructured Pipelines API: supported source connectors
Unstructured Pipelines API: supported destination connectors
Unstructured Pipelines API: source connector endpoints reference
Unstructured Pipelines API: destination connector endpoints reference
Unstructured Pipelines API: workflow template endpoints reference
Unstructured Pipelines API: supported models for SaaS
Unstructured Pipelines API: workflow endpoints reference
Unstructured Pipelines API: workflow nodes reference overview
Unstructured Pipelines API: job endpoints reference
Unstructured Pipelines API: workspace notification and workflow notification endpoints reference