Elastic Content Share

FSCrawler Filesystem Crawler for Elasticsearch

A widely used filesystem crawler for indexing PDFs, Office files, and remote filesystem content into Elasticsearch, with Docker support in 3.0.

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Index filesystem content into Elasticsearch with FSCrawler, including local folders, mounted drives, SSH/FTP sources, and binary documents such as PDFs and Office files.

What is included

  • FSCrawler source tree and default settings examples.
  • Documentation index, LLM guide, and crawler configuration examples.
  • Apache 2.0 license file.

Who it helps

Enterprise Search teams can use FSCrawler when they need to make shared filesystem content searchable in Elasticsearch.

Compatibility

The README states FSCrawler 3.0 supports Elasticsearch 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x, and FSCrawler 2.9 supports Elasticsearch 6.x and 7.x. Tagged as 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x compatibility for the current 3.0 line.

Source and license

Source: dadoonet/fscrawler. The upstream repository is licensed under Apache 2.0.

The ZIP attached to this draft contains the reusable upstream files plus the available license or notice files.

Tested versions 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
ECS compliant
Tested versions

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