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What is a Connector?

Connectors are software that connects components designed to pull data from various data sources (such as a e.g. file system or , SharePoint) to pull data in to into Aspire. Typically, they are built using an API APIs provided by the repository vendor and use this API . These APIs are used to connect and extract data from the sourcetheir corresponding sources.

• The exact data extracted by a connector depends in on the data source, but typically include ; it usually includes titles, authors, modification times, and access control lists.
• Files or /media/attachments are can also be accessed, pulled, and text extracted where appropriateprocessed for text extraction as configured and required.
• Connectors download obtain lists of users and groups stored in the data source to allow for subsequent access control to be applied laterprocessing.

Configuring Connectors

Connectors can be configured to target a subset of a data source and can run in a mode where they ; they can also be set to return all results of the a configured set or just items that have changed since the last time the connector ran.

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