# \[Beginner\] Collecting Live-Data from Webserver

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918 "2019-04-15T13:33:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeterPain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PeterPain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterPain)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918/1 "2019-04-15T13:33:04Z")

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Hey there, im just getting started with Elasticsearch and want to get data from a Webserver  
The Webserver offeres an interface to get the data in JSON format.

Here are links for the website:  
[http://www.airleader.biz/airleader/](http://www.airleader.biz/airleader/)

The Data in JSON-Format (see link below)  
[http://www.airleader.biz/airleader/interfaces/json.jsp](http://www.airleader.biz/airleader/interfaces/json.jsp)

Whats the best way to import the Data to ElasticSearch ?  
I thought about using a webcrawler and transfer it elasticsearch, but because im just getting started with elasticsearch there might be better solution.

Thx for your help in advance.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918/2 "2019-04-15T20:39:46Z")

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You may want to look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-http.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-http.html) instead of filebeat. It can pull from an API.

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**Author:** ![PeterPain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PeterPain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterPain)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918/3 "2019-04-16T06:30:40Z")

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Okay thanks for the help, i will work through this.

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**Author:** ![PeterPain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PeterPain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterPain)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918/4 "2019-04-23T11:46:38Z")

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Thanks for the help i could retrieve the data from the webservice 🙂

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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:** [May 21, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beginner-collecting-live-data-from-webserver/176918/5 "2019-05-21T11:46:42Z")

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