The File system connector will crawl content from file system location.

Features

Some of the features of the File system connector include:

Performs incremental crawling (so that only new/updated documents are indexed)
Metadata extraction
Is search engine independent
Runs from any machine with access to the given folder
Filter the crawled documents by paths (including file names) using regex patterns
Supports Windows/Linux/MacOS file systems
Supports Archive file processing, for more info visit Archive files processing
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Content Retrieved

The File system connector retries several types of documents, listed bellow are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.

Due to API limitations, File File system connector has the following limitations:

The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:

Does not feature document level security
- For that, you need to use the CIFS Connector.
Example future plan

Anything we should add? Please let us know.