# How to bulk load in elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-bulk-load-in-elasticsearch/26516>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 29, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-bulk-load-in-elasticsearch/26516 "2015-07-29T19:19:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sharatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sharatt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sharatt)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-bulk-load-in-elasticsearch/26516/1 "2015-07-29T19:19:20Z")

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I am a newbie to ELK stack. I am exploring ways to load a bunch of json documents. I have downloaded a small number of json documents using wget.

I have created an index call apis  
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/apis?pretty

Now how do i bulk load all json documents into this index? Would below work?  
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/apis/internal?pretty --data-binary \*.json

Is there any other option(s)?

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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:** [July 29, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-bulk-load-in-elasticsearch/26516/2 "2015-07-29T21:41:59Z")

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You could use Logstash!

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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, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-bulk-load-in-elasticsearch/26516/3 "2017-07-05T23:58:14Z")

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