# How to import non-prettified JSON files?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-non-prettified-json-files/145795>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-non-prettified-json-files/145795 "2018-08-23T19:44:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jake\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@Jake\_Burns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jake_Burns)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-non-prettified-json-files/145795/1 "2018-08-23T19:44:51Z")

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I'm trying to import a directory of .json files into elasticsearch. The files are not prettified and have no newline characters. They are valid JSON according to jsonlint but I cannot import them into elasticsearch.

Here is an example of the data:  
[{"Author":"Adam Watts \u003cadamwatts@hooey.com\u003e","Content-Length":"634","Content-Type":"message/rfc822","Creation-Date":"2018-07-31T15:35:47Z","Message-From":"Adam Watts \u003cadamwatts@hooey.com\u003e","Message:From-Email":"adamwatts@hooey.com","Message:From-Name":"Adam Watts","Message:Raw-Header:MIME-Version":"1.0","Message:Raw-Header:Message-ID":"\u003cCANy\u003d\u003dEdFpmKewnGbz94WQGDQe12uEgToiqPjLdYFtScWGPqEUg@mail.hooey.com\u003e","Message:Raw-Header:Received":"by 2002:a9d:7547:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:35:47 -0700 (PDT)","Multipart-Boundary":"000000000000ffba2e05724d5480","Multipart-Subtype":"alternative","X-Parsed-By":["org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser","org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser"],"X-TIKA:content":"\u003chtml xmlns\u003d"[http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml](http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)"\u003e\n\u003chead\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"X-Parsed-By" content\u003d"org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"X-Parsed-By" content\u003d"org.apache.tika.parser.mail.RFC822Parser" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"creator" content\u003d"Adam Watts \u0026lt;adamwatts@hooey.com\u0026gt;" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"meta:author" content\u003d"Adam Watts \u0026lt;adamwatts@hooey.com\u0026gt;" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"meta:creation-date" content\u003d"2018-07-31T15:35:47Z" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"subject" content\u003d" " /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"dc:creator" content\u003d"Adam Watts \u0026lt;adamwatts@hooey.com\u0026gt;" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"tika\_batch\_fs:relative\_path" content\u003d"20180731-no\_subject-21868.eml" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Creation-Date" content\u003d"2018-07-31T15:35:47Z" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"resourceName" content\u003d"20180731-no\_subject-21868.eml" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"dcterms:created" content\u003d"2018-07-31T15:35:47Z" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Message:From-Email" content\u003d"adamwatts@hooey.com" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Message:Raw-Header:MIME-Version" content\u003d"1.0" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Multipart-Boundary" content\u003d"000000000000ffba2e05724d5480" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Message:Raw-Header:Message-ID" content\u003d"\u0026lt;CANy\u003d\u003dEdFpmKewnGbz94WQGDQe12uEgToiqPjLdYFtScWGPqEUg@mail.hooey.com\u0026gt;" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"dc:title" content\u003d" " /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"tika:file\_ext" content\u003d"eml" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Message:From-Name" content\u003d"Adam Watts" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Author" content\u003d"Adam Watts \u0026lt;adamwatts@hooey.com\u0026gt;" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Multipart-Subtype" content\u003d"alternative" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Message:Raw-Header:Received" content\u003d"by 2002:a9d:7547:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:35:47 -0700 (PDT)" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Content-Length" content\u003d"634" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"X-TIKA:digest:MD5" content\u003d"3999400e0c25c6c14d591d030cd947df" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Message-From" content\u003d"Adam Watts \u0026lt;adamwatts@hooey.com\u0026gt;" /\u003e\n\u003cmeta name\u003d"Content-Type" content\u003d"message/rfc822" /\u003e\n\u003ctitle\u003e \u003c/title\u003e\n\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003cbody\u003einsurance health center. - \n\n\n\u003c/body\u003e\u003c/html\u003e","X-TIKA:digest:MD5":"3999400e0c25c6c14d591d030cd947df","X-TIKA:parse\_time\_millis":"10","creator":"Adam Watts \u003cadamwatts@hooey.com\u003e","dc:creator":"Adam Watts \u003cadamwatts@hooey.com\u003e","dc:title":" ","dcterms:created":"2018-07-31T15:35:47Z","meta:author":"Adam Watts \u003cadamwatts@hooey.com\u003e","meta:creation-date":"2018-07-31T15:35:47Z","resourceName":"20180731-no\_subject-21868.eml","subject":" ","tika:file\_ext":"eml","tika\_batch\_fs:relative\_path":"20180731-no\_subject-21868.eml"}]

- What's the right way to insert this file into elasticsearch?
- What's the right way to import a directory full of these files into elasticsearch?

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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:** [September 20, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-non-prettified-json-files/145795/2 "2018-09-20T19:44:57Z")

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