# Index from xls
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930 "2015-07-20T17:13:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fabioebner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fabioebner)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930/1 "2015-07-20T17:13:44Z")
It's possible to create one index from an xls.?
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### Author:  [@PatrickKik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PatrickKik)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930/2 "2015-07-21T05:13:34Z")
I don't know of any direct routes, but you could export your XLS to CSV and use any of the available importers/rivers for that.
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2015, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930/3 "2015-07-21T11:15:15Z")
I think the file system river (FSRiver) might use Apache POI to read XLS
files.
Rivers are now deprecated, but creating your own code is easy. If using
Java, the Apache POI library is probably your best bet.
Cheers,
Ivan
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### Author:  [@cwurm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cwurm)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930/4 "2015-09-04T10:04:11Z")
There is an XLS plugin for Logstash in the community that you could use: [https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-input-xls/](https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-input-xls/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-from-xls/25930/5 "2017-07-05T23:52:04Z")