Available Connectors

Please check below the connectors available to Aspire 4.0 and 5.0.


Repository TypeConnectorDescription

Aspire 

4.x

Aspire 

5.x

File System








File SystemExtracts documents from a locally accessible File System path

SMBExtracts documents from remote sharing servers using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

FTPExtracts documents from remote servers using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Extracts documents from S3 buckets in any region on AWS

 Box.com

Extracts documents from Box.com

 HDFS

Extracts documents from the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) via WebHDFS

Extracts documents from Microsoft OneDrive accounts

Extracts documents from Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store cloud

Extracts documents from Microsoft Azure Blob Storage service

Extracts documents from Microsoft Azure File Storage service

Events, Messaging and Streaming

Extract events from Microsoft Azure Events Hub service

Extracts events from Apache Kafka event streaming platform

Extracts records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

RSSExtracts items from RSS feeds

Relational Databases

RDB via TableExtracts content from Relational Database SQL queries, and performs incremental updates based on Update-Table queries.

RDB via SnapshotsExtracts content from Relational Database SQL queries, and performs incremental update by using a content digest Snapshot table

Scans all databases within a server, extracts table information from all databases and extracts rows from all tables.

Content Management Systems

 Documentum

Extracts documents stored in docbases, cabinets, folders, and sub-folders within Documentum

Extracts documents using DQL query language for full and incremental crawls. ACLs extraction is also expressed as DQL statements.

The Dropbox connector can crawl Pages, Folders and Files from a Dropbox repository. It does identity Crawling, can execute snapshot-based Incrementals and respects document hierarchy.

Extracts documents from Microsoft SharePoint 2013 (sites, lists, external lists, folders, documents or list items, attachments)

Extracts documents from Microsoft SharePoint 2016 (sites, lists, external lists, folders, documents or list items, attachments)

Extracts documents from Microsoft SharePoint 2019 (sites, lists, external lists, folders, documents or list items, attachments)

Extracts documents from Microsoft SharePoint Online (sites, lists, external lists, folders, documents or list items, attachments)

Collaboration

Extracts documents from Confluence repositories, including spaces, blogs, pages, attachments, and comments

 IBM Connections

Extracts content from IBM Connections servers including Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Files, Forums, Wikis, Profiles, and Communities

 Atlassian Jira

Extracts content from different Jira issue types: (Bug, CCB, Device Profile, Epic, Improvement, Information, Inquiry, New Feature, Question, etc.)

Extracts content from Salesforce including Accounts, Campaigns, Cases, Contracts, Contacts, Chatters, Documents, Groups, Ideas, Leads, Opportunities, Partners, Pricebooks, Products, Profiles, Solutions, Tasks, User, Knowledge Articles and Attachments.

Extracts content from ServiceNow including Knowledge Articles, Article Categories, Knowledge Bases, Attachments, ACLs, Users, and Catalog Items

Extracts content from an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) server, including all page and asset objects

Extracts content from Veeva Vault using a Vault Query Language (VQL) statement.

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 Kinesis  Fetches data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

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CRM

 RightNow

Extracts content from a RightNow instance including Answers, Attachments, and Incidents

Web Crawler

Extract pages and documents from websites by following links inside HTML pages. Static websites supported. Multiple Authentication mechanisms.

Extract pages and documents from websites by following links inside HTML pages. Dynamic websites supported. Uses the Selenium framework to render the pages in real browser instances. Highly flexible crawling by scripting behaviors on the browser.

Social Networks

 Jive

Extracts content from any Jive Community using REST API v3. Includes documents stored in spaces, groups, projects, blogs, and any sub-folders.

 Twitter

Extracts tweets and metadata from any Twitter account, including Tweet Text, URL Links, Geo Location, Hashtags, User mentions, Media entities, Retweet count

 Yammer

Extracts content from Yammer messages by Group, Thread, and Topic.

NoSQL Database

 HBase

Extracts content stored in the objectData field of the tables in an HBase server.

Extracts documents stored in an Elasticsearch index using a query to filter the documents to extract.

Identity Providers

Group ExpansionThe Group Expansion connector can crawl and expand identities from the Identity Cache. 

LDAP IdentityRetrieves users, groups, and memberships from any LDAP server

Retrieves users, groups, and memberships stored in Confluence repositories.

Retrieves users, groups, and memberships from Azure Active Directory.

Other

 MS Exchange

Extracts content from the Exchange Servers including Mail (and attachments), Calendar and Contact

The REST connector can retrieve data from any JSON-based REST endpoint.