# Supporting stop words in Elastic Open Crawler

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/supporting-stop-words-in-elastic-open-crawler/361532>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** crawler\
**Created:** [June 15, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/supporting-stop-words-in-elastic-open-crawler/361532 "2024-06-15T12:10:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jahedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jahedi/32/135254_2.png) [@jahedi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jahedi)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/supporting-stop-words-in-elastic-open-crawler/361532/1 "2024-06-15T12:10:12Z")

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Hi,  
I am testing the currently released project, [Open Crawl](https://github.com/elastic/crawler), for a few days. I was just wondering if this project supports the stop words? In other word I don't want some words like "the", "and", "a", etc, effects on my search results. does the [Open Crawler](https://github.com/elastic/crawler) have some feature to handle this words for me while creating the index and storing the website content in elasticsearch index?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Jedr\_Blaszyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jedr_blaszyk/32/127637_2.png) [@Jedr\_Blaszyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jedr_Blaszyk)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/supporting-stop-words-in-elastic-open-crawler/361532/2 "2024-06-17T07:12:58Z")

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Hey! Skipping stop words doesn't necessarily need to be done in the crawler logic. You can set up a destination Elasticsearch index with an analyzer to filter out stop words, which should achieve your desired result. You can refer to: [Stop token filter | Elasticsearch Guide [8.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stop-tokenfilter.html) Let me know if it helps!

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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:** [July 15, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/supporting-stop-words-in-elastic-open-crawler/361532/3 "2024-07-15T07:13:52Z")

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