# Indexing videos in elasticserach
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-videos-in-elasticserach/182213
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-videos-in-elasticserach/182213 "2019-05-22T11:32:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-videos-in-elasticserach/182213/1 "2019-05-22T11:32:48Z")
is it possible to index video in elasticsearch
thank you
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-videos-in-elasticserach/182213/2 "2019-05-22T11:40:53Z")
There is no but in support for this so you need to find or build an application that generates searchable JSON documents from videos outside Elasticsearch.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-videos-in-elasticserach/182213/3 "2019-05-22T13:57:52Z")
Adding to this that I'd not send or store a 1gb+ video file to elasticsearch over the REST interface. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-videos-in-elasticserach/182213/4 "2019-06-19T13:57:52Z")
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