# Elasticsearch-py usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 13, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-py-usage/16365 "2014-03-13T20:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kent\_Tenney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kent_tenney/32/1739_2.png) [@Kent\_Tenney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kent_Tenney)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-py-usage/16365/1 "2014-03-13T20:57:55Z")
From the fsriver doc: curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/\_river/mydocs/\_meta' -d '{ "type": "fs", "fs": { "url": "/tmp", "update\_rate": 900000, "includes": "_.doc,_.pdf", "excludes": "resume" } }' How does this translate to the Python API? Thanks, Kent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAAa\_k2f9zW7VLR5%3DjkqipQwzZanU%2BQxCDWSVJ0FD1L\_6RP6g7w%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAAa_k2f9zW7VLR5%3DjkqipQwzZanU%2BQxCDWSVJ0FD1L_6RP6g7w%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Honza\_Kral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/honza_kral/32/876_2.png) [@Honza\_Kral](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Honza_Kral)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-py-usage/16365/2 "2014-03-13T21:18:11Z")
Hello Kent, you can always access the raw transport and send any request you wish for the unsupported APIs: from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch es = Elasticsearch() data, status = es.transport.perform\_request('PUT', '/\_river/....', body={'type': 'fs',}) Hope this helps, Honza Kral On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Kent Tenney [ktenney@gmail.com](mailto:ktenney@gmail.com) wrote: > From the fsriver doc: > > curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/\_river/mydocs/\_meta' -d '{ > "type": "fs", > "fs": { > "url": "/tmp", > "update\_rate": 900000, > "includes": "_.doc,_.pdf", > "excludes": "resume" > } > }' > > How does this translate to the Python API? > > Thanks, > Kent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAAa\_k2f9zW7VLR5%3DjkqipQwzZanU%2BQxCDWSVJ0FD1L\_6RP6g7w%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAAa_k2f9zW7VLR5%3DjkqipQwzZanU%2BQxCDWSVJ0FD1L_6RP6g7w%40mail.gmail.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CABfdDiod%2B59QVa9dtOT8TBSAtuHh8Zm\_ongDu-2vs%3DeZD-UcFw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CABfdDiod%2B59QVa9dtOT8TBSAtuHh8Zm_ongDu-2vs%3DeZD-UcFw%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Josh\_Harrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@Josh\_Harrison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Josh_Harrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-py-usage/16365/3 "2014-03-13T21:20:31Z")
It doesn't look like the elasticsearch-py API covers the river use case. When I've run into things like this I've always just run a manual CURL request, or if I need to do it from within a script I just do a basic command with requests, ala requests.put("[http://localhost:9200/\_river/mydocs/\_meta](http://localhost:9200/_river/mydocs/_meta)" data='{"type": "fs", "fs": { "url": "/tmp", "update\_rate": 900000, "includes": "_.doc,_.pdf", "excludes": "resume" }}') Not the most elegant approach, but it works! On Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:57:55 PM UTC-7, Kent Tenney wrote: > From the fsriver doc: > > curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/\_river/mydocs/\_meta' -d '{ > "type": "fs", > "fs": { > "url": "/tmp", > "update\_rate": 900000, > "includes": "_.doc,_.pdf", > "excludes": "resume" > } > }' > > How does this translate to the Python API? > > Thanks, > Kent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c9d25008-fe3d-43dc-a57f-e8e510f8a3ce%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c9d25008-fe3d-43dc-a57f-e8e510f8a3ce%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 1:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-py-usage/16365/4 "2017-07-06T01:43:17Z")