# App Search: how to best index a site that doesn't crawl well - Confluence wiki for example

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-how-to-best-index-a-site-that-doesnt-crawl-well-confluence-wiki-for-example/313195>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [August 29, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-how-to-best-index-a-site-that-doesnt-crawl-well-confluence-wiki-for-example/313195 "2022-08-29T19:57:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-how-to-best-index-a-site-that-doesnt-crawl-well-confluence-wiki-for-example/313195/4 "2022-08-29T21:23:01Z")

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Sean, I had forgotten that Serena Chou explained something about the Confluence connector a month ago when I was getting started. So I will see if I can get that working.

But I'm still concerned that you are wondering why we don't use Workplace Search and whether I went the right direction for our case.

> [@Which part of EnterpriseSearch should I use for search bar on Drupal site?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-part-of-enterprisesearch-should-i-use-for-search-bar-on-drupal-site/310332/4):
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> Thank you, that's super helpful. One optional path you could do to make sure you can use our connector alongside the power of App Search would be to use the confluence cloud connector package ([8.3.0 release notes | Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation [8.3] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/release-notes-8.3.0.html)) that we offered in 8.3. That connector outputs to Workplace Search custom source API, but easily could be modified to output to Elasticsearch bulk indexing API if you like. It's open code so you have full flexibility here. Even …

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