File System Crawler for Elasticsearch

Welcome to the FS Crawler for Elasticsearch

This crawler helps to index binary documents such as PDF, Open Office, MS Office.

Main features:

Local file system (or a mounted drive) crawling and index new files, update existing ones and removes old ones.
Remote file system over SSH crawling.
REST interface to let you "upload" your binary documents to elasticsearch.

You need to install a version matching your Elasticsearch version:

Elasticsearch	FS Crawler	Released	Docs
2.x, 5.x, 6.x	2.5-SNAPSHOT		2.5-SNAPSHOT
2.x, 5.x, 6.x	2.4	2017-08-11	2.4
2.x, 5.x, 6.x	2.3	2017-07-10	2.3
1.x, 2.x, 5.x	2.2	2017-02-03	2.2
1.x, 2.x, 5.x	2.1	2016-07-26	2.1
es-2.0	2.0.0	2015-10-30	2.0.0

Build and Quality Status

The guide has been moved to ReadTheDocs.