# Attachments streaming?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-streaming/4022>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 3, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-streaming/4022 "2011-03-03T15:15:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Benoit\_Chesneau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/benoit_chesneau/32/2822_2.png) [@Benoit\_Chesneau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benoit_Chesneau)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-streaming/4022/1 "2011-03-03T15:15:04Z")

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Is there a way to stream attachments to oelastic search ? Or wjhat  
could be the best way to index big files ?

- benoît

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-streaming/4022/2 "2011-03-05T07:14:05Z")

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No, there isn't a way to stream data. Either pass the file itself, or break it into several documents.  
On Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:

> Is there a way to stream attachments to oelastic search ? Or wjhat  
> could be the best way to index big files ?
> 
> - benoît

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-streaming/4022/3 "2017-07-06T04:10:46Z")

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