# Can elasticsearch parse the data for me?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticsearch-parse-the-data-for-me/43694>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 7, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticsearch-parse-the-data-for-me/43694 "2016-03-07T19:15:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ohad\_edelstain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7bcc69/32.png) [@ohad\_edelstain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ohad_edelstain)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticsearch-parse-the-data-for-me/43694/1 "2016-03-07T19:15:39Z")

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I have a large text file,  
currently i am parsing it using regex and then inserting it to the Elasticsearch, so i can only search on the fields that interest me (and get back only the data exist in that fields)

For example the file is an html file, so i have  
field: outgoing\_links  
value type: list

field: insite\_links  
value type: list

field: data  
value type: text

later on i can search only in the outgoing\_links for example for specific terms  
Is there a way to do this in elasticsearch itself? insert a page and doing some kind of preprocess on it?

As you can see, i am noob to elasticsearch 🙂 thanks!

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticsearch-parse-the-data-for-me/43694/2 "2016-03-07T19:30:22Z")

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Elasticsearch isn't capable of this. Have a look at Logstash.

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**Author:** ![ohad\_edelstain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7bcc69/32.png) [@ohad\_edelstain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ohad_edelstain)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticsearch-parse-the-data-for-me/43694/3 "2016-03-09T11:37:38Z")

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I see, thanks for the quick response!

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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 5, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticsearch-parse-the-data-for-me/43694/4 "2017-07-05T23:09:55Z")

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