# FSCrawler question about password protected Word documents **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 16, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590 "2024-05-16T06:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lengoyvaerts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lengoyvaerts/32/6748_2.png) [@lengoyvaerts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lengoyvaerts)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/1 "2024-05-16T06:48:16Z")
I have a question about the fscrawler Is it possible to crawl password protected Word documents? I came upon [this issue](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler/issues/229) on the Github repository, but It doesn't provide much insight outside of a single unit test. I don't seem to find any mention in the documentation either. When trying to crawl a password protected Word document, I'm getting the following exception: ```auto 08:24:49,504 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] Failed to extract [100000] characters of text for [document-with-password.docx] org.apache.tika.exception.EncryptedDocumentException: Unable to process: document is encrypted at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:274) ~[tika-parser-microsoft-module-2.9.1.jar:2.9.1] at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:183) ~[tika-parser-microsoft-module-2.9.1.jar:2.9.1] at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:298) ~[tika-core-2.9.1.jar:2.9.1] at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:298) ~[tika-core-2.9.1.jar:2.9.1] at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:203) ~[tika-core-2.9.1.jar:2.9.1] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.tika.TikaInstance.extractText(TikaInstance.java:197) ~[fscrawler-tika-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.tika.TikaDocParser.generate(TikaDocParser.java:98) ~[fscrawler-tika-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.rest.DocumentApi.uploadToDocumentService(DocumentApi.java:205) ~[fscrawler-rest-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.rest.DocumentApi.addDocument(DocumentApi.java:94) ~[fscrawler-rest-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor54.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:?] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:?] at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) ~[?:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.lambda$static$0(ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.java:52) ~[jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:146) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:189) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider$TypeOutInvoker.doDispatch(JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider.java:219) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:93) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:478) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:400) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:81) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$1.run(ServerRuntime.java:261) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:248) [jersey-common-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:244) [jersey-common-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:292) [jersey-common-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:274) [jersey-common-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:244) [jersey-common-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:265) [jersey-common-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:240) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:697) [jersey-server-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpContainer.service(GrizzlyHttpContainer.java:367) [jersey-container-grizzly2-http-3.1.5.jar:?] at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler$1.run(HttpHandler.java:190) [grizzly-http-server-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1] at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:535) [grizzly-framework-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1] at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:515) [grizzly-framework-4.0.1.jar:4.0.1] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?] 08:24:49,505 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] End document generation ``` I'm using version 2.10-20240325.073416-333 of the fscrawler. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/2 "2024-05-16T07:55:04Z")
I don't think it can. The test was just added to prove that fscrawler does not break with protected documents but index the file metadata with no content extracted. ---
**Author:** ![lengoyvaerts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lengoyvaerts/32/6748_2.png) [@lengoyvaerts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lengoyvaerts)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/3 "2024-05-16T09:02:38Z")
Thanks for your swift reply. Would it make sense to add this feature as a cli option when using the crawler as a REST service? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/4 "2024-05-16T16:08:16Z")
Do you mean that you know the password and want to extract data using that password? ---
**Author:** ![lengoyvaerts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lengoyvaerts/32/6748_2.png) [@lengoyvaerts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lengoyvaerts)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/5 "2024-08-13T11:35:24Z")
Apologies for the lack of response from my side, there were other priorities and I kind of forgot about the thread. Yes, this would be the behavior I'm looking for. Is this possible? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/6 "2024-08-13T12:33:25Z")
Ha. I see. Is that a password per document? Or a global password? In first case, that'd be a global setting. In the second case, that'd be a .password file in the same dir, I guess. I don't know if Tika supports it. I need to check. But could you open a feature request about this? ---
**Author:** ![lengoyvaerts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lengoyvaerts/32/6748_2.png) [@lengoyvaerts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lengoyvaerts)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-question-about-password-protected-word-documents/359590/7 "2024-08-13T12:59:15Z")
It would be a (different) password per document. > But could you open a feature request about this? [Here](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler/issues/1916) it is. Please let me know if more info needs to be added.