Absolute beginner in elasticsearch

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hallo ! :slight_smile:

I am an absolute beginner in elasticsearch and after some hours of reading and watching tutorial-videos I got the impression, that it needs a lot of knowledge and preparation, before I can make a fast search in certain data.
I understand that I need indices for the data in which I want to make fast searches.
I seems to me that it is a hard work to build these indices.

The data in which I can search with elasticsearch must be reachable over http(s). Is that correct?
The data in which I can search with elasticsearch must be located in a area where the data is which can be published/sent by the http-webserver. Is that correct?

Or is there a way to search in huge data amounts which are located in certain directories on my harddisk?

Can i search in arbitrary structured data (pdf files , xls-files, txt-files , doc-files, html-files, xml-files) or do i need the data in a certain structure like .csv-files

Thank you for helping me:

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Welcome to our community! :smiley:

Can you please edit your post and remote the quote blocks, it makes your topic very difficult to read.

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You can use FSCrawler. There's a tutorial to help you getting started.

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Yes, Elasticsearch exposes things via APIs.

Elasticsearch has a built in webserver.

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Hello!

Thank you for the message and the welcoming! :slight_smile:

Sorry, but the system told me to use something like backticks quotation marks to wrap my post.
(To make it readable, make sure to wrap your code in backticks)

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Thank you.

What have i to do, when I want to search in a directory of my harddisk. How do I prepare the data (which are thousends of different files) of a certain directory?

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Hello,

and Thank you! :slight_smile: