# Is it possible to save a full file in Elasticsearch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 27, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135 "2016-10-27T11:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Diaz_Gonzalez)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/1 "2016-10-27T11:40:02Z")
Is it possible to save a full file in Elasticsearch?? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/2 "2016-10-27T11:41:47Z")
Please provide a bit more detail... ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Diaz_Gonzalez)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/3 "2016-10-27T11:44:20Z")
Yes, I have a lot of files from different places but I am not interested in parsing each line of each file. I was interested in save the whole file in a attribute of Elasticsearch and after save different metadatas from this file n another attributes. It would be possible? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Diaz_Gonzalez)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/4 "2016-10-31T07:42:39Z")
Could somebody tell me something about?? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/5 "2016-10-31T08:01:45Z")
A common use case for Elasticsearch is document search, so it is certainly possible to ingest complete files and search the text within. What are you looking to do with your data once it is indexed? ---
**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 31, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/6 "2016-10-31T08:34:29Z")
I'm unsure about the question as well. May be [https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler) is what you are looking for? ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Juan\_Diaz\_Gonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_Diaz_Gonzalez)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/7 "2016-10-31T08:51:24Z")
Yes it is something like this. To index a lot of files from a machine and after to do searches over elasticsearch in the words from all files. I will try to use you code. Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-save-a-full-file-in-elasticsearch/64135/8 "2017-07-05T22:08:23Z")
Closed on July 5, 2017, 10:08pm UTC