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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716 "2017-05-31T10:31:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:**  [@jshraddha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jshraddha)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/1 "2017-05-31T10:31:32Z")
Hi,
Is there any way to ingest html file into elasticsearch? So far I have seen a command to ingest json files.
I have a file which contains html content different html tags etc. Requirement is to store some content as a String and some tags as it is in the elasticsearch.
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**Author:**  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/2 "2017-05-31T10:59:00Z")
You can use [html trip char filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.4/analysis-htmlstrip-charfilter.html).
You can also look at ingest-attachment plugin.
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**Author:**  [@jshraddha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jshraddha)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/3 "2017-05-31T11:33:00Z")
Thanks @dadoonet
I saw the plugin document and installed it but I could not understand how the file should be provided in that API
In document it is shown as
PUT my\_index/my\_type/my\_id?pipeline=attachment
{
"data": "e1xydGYxXGFuc2kNCkxvcmVtIGlwc3VtIGRvbG9yIHNpdCBhbWV0DQpccGFyIH0="
}
Ho can I specify my file? Do I need to specify file path somewhere?
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**Author:**  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/4 "2017-05-31T12:09:25Z")
You need to encode the content of the file in BASE64 and add this to The json document.
You can also look at FSCrawler project if you wish. Might help
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**Author:**  [@jshraddha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jshraddha)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/5 "2017-06-01T08:34:38Z")
Thanks @dadoonet : Encoding with BASE64 worked. It stores the actual text in the index. Is there any way if I want to store it with actual HTML tags. I wanted to store few tags like table tag as it is in the index whereas rest of the data can be stored by eliminating html tags.
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**Author:**  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/6 "2017-06-01T09:00:34Z")
Then you need to send as well the HTML content within another field. Which can be not indexed
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-html-file-into-elasticsearch/87716/7 "2017-06-29T09:00:56Z")
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