# Index files on files system in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-files-on-files-system-in-elasticsearch/152644>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-files-on-files-system-in-elasticsearch/152644 "2018-10-16T11:53:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![M.alsioufi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m.alsioufi/32/52269_2.png) [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-files-on-files-system-in-elasticsearch/152644/1 "2018-10-16T11:53:03Z")

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Hi,

Is there any ready-to-use tool that indexes metadata about files in a folder. Metadata like full path, file name, date of creation...etc. so it works like a mirror of the files system, and it will reflect any change happened to any file, with the ability of indexing the content of the files if needed.

In other words, an Elastic stack based search engine over file system, that index all files in the system or a folder(content or metadata) in an Elasticsearch database.

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**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:** [October 16, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-files-on-files-system-in-elasticsearch/152644/2 "2018-10-16T12:46:25Z")

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Some ideas:

- [http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/12/10/building-a-directory-map-with-elk/](http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/12/10/building-a-directory-map-with-elk/)
- [https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/fscrawler-2.5/](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/fscrawler-2.5/)

HTH

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**Author:** ![M.alsioufi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m.alsioufi/32/52269_2.png) [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-files-on-files-system-in-elasticsearch/152644/3 "2018-10-16T13:18:33Z")

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That sounds something interesting for me!  
Thank you 🙂

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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:** [November 13, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-files-on-files-system-in-elasticsearch/152644/4 "2018-11-13T13:18:35Z")

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