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The Aspider Web Crawler Connector can be configured using the Rest API. It requires the following entities to be created:

  • Credential
  • Connection
  • Connector
  • Seed

Bellow are the examples of how to create the Connection and the Seed. For the Connector please check this page.

Create Connection


Field

Optional

Default

Multiple

Notes

Example

typeNo-NoThe value must be "<connector>"."<connector>"
descriptionNo-NoName of the connection object."My<connector>Connection"
throttlePolicyYes-NoId of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object."f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPoliciesYes[ ]YesThe ids of the routing policies that this connection will use.["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
propertiesNo-NoConfiguration object






Example

POST aspire/_api/connections
{
    "type": "<connector>",
    "description": "<connector> Test Connector",
    "properties": {
        
    }
}

Update Connection

Field

Optional

Default

Multiple

Notes

Example

idNo-NoId of the connection to update"89d6632a-a296-426c-adb0-d442adcab4b0",
descriptionYes-NoName of the connection object."MyAspiderConnection"
throttlePolicyYes-NoId of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object."f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPoliciesYes[ ]YesThe ids of the routing policies that this connection will use.["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
propertiesNo-NoConfiguration object






Example

PUT aspire/_api/connections/89d6632a-a296-426c-adb0-d442adcab4b0
{
    "id": "89d6632a-a296-426c-adb0-d442adcab4b0",
    "description": "<connector> Test Connector",
    "properties": {
        
    }
}

Create Connector


For the creation of the Connector object using the Rest API check this page

Update Connector


For the update of the Connector object using the Rest API check this page

Create Seed


Field

Optional

Default

Multiple

Notes

Example

seedNo-No<seed description>
typeNo-NoThe value must be "<connector>"."<connector>"
descriptionNo-NoName of the seed object."My<connector>Seed"
connectorNo-NoThe id of the connector to be used with this seed. The connector type must match the seed type."82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31"
connectionNo-NoThe id of the connection to be used with this seed. The connection type must match the seed type."602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6"
workflowsYes[ ]YesThe ids of the workflows that will be executed for the documents crawled.["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
throttlePolicyYes-NoId of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object."f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPoliciesYes[ ]YesThe ids of the routing policies that this seed will use.["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
tagsYes[ ]YesThe tags of the seed. These can be used to filter the seed["tag1", "tag2"]
propertiesNo-NoConfiguration object






Example

POST aspire/_api/seeds
{
    "type": "<connector>",
    "seed": "directory",
    "connector": "82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31",
    "description": "<connector>_Test_Seed",
    "throttlePolicy": "6b8b5f23-fc77-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b",
    "routingPolicies": ["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"],
    "connection": "602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6",
    "workflows": ["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"],
    "properties": {
        
    }
}

Update Seed


Field

Optional

Default

Multiple

Notes

Example

idNo-NoId of the seed to update."2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778"
seedYes-No<seed description>
descriptionYes-NoName of the seed object."My<connector>Seed"
connectorYes-NoThe id of the connector to be used with this seed. The connector type must match the seed type."82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31"
connectionYes-NoThe id of the connection to be used with this seed. The connection type must match the seed type."602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6"
workflowsYes[ ]YesThe ids of the workflows that will be executed for the documents crawled.["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
workflows.addYes[ ]YesThe ids of the workflows to add.["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
workflows.removeYes[ ]YesThe ids of the workflows to remove.["f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"]
throttlePolicyYes-NoId of the throttle policy that applies to this connection object."f5587cee-9116-4011-b3a9-6b235b333a1b"
routingPoliciesYes[ ]YesThe ids of the routing policies that this seed will use.["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
routingPolicies.addYes[ ]YesThe ids of the routingPolicies to add.["b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"]
routingPolicies.removeYes[ ]YesThe ids of the routingPolicies to remove.["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7"]
tagsYes[ ]YesThe tags of the seed. These can be used to filter the seed["tag1", "tag3"]
tags.addYes[ ]YesThe tags to add["tag4"]
tags.removeYes[ ]YesThe tags to remove["tag2"]
propertiesNo-NoConfiguration object






Example

PUT aspire/_api/seeds/2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778
{
    "id": "2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778",
    "seed": "<seed example>",
    "connector": "82f7f0a4-8d28-47ce-8c9d-e3ca414b0d31",
    "description": "<connector>_Test_Seed",
    "throttlePolicy": "6b8b5f23-fc77-47a1-9b58-106577162e7b",
    "routingPolicies": ["313de87c-3cb9-4fe0-a2cb-17f75ce7d0c7", "b4d2579f-1a0a-4a8b-9fd4-d42780003b36"],
    "connection": "602d3700-28dd-4a6a-8b51-e4a663fe9ee6",
    "workflows": ["b255e950-1dac-46dc-8f86-1238b2fbdf27", "f8c414cb-1f5d-42ef-9cc9-5696c3f0bda4"],
    "tags": ["tag", "tag2"],
    "properties": {
        
    }
}

Create Credential


FieldOptionalDefaultMultipleNotesExample
typeNo-NoThe value must be "<connector>"."<connector>"
descriptionNo-NoName of the credential object."<connector>Credential"
propertiesNo-NoConfiguration object






Example

POST aspire/_api/credentials
{
    "type": "<connector>",
    "description": "<connector>Credential",
    "properties": {
		
    }
}

Update Credential


FieldOptionalDefaultMultipleNotesExample
idNo-NoId of the credential to update."2f287669-d163-4e35-ad17-6bbfe9df3778"
descriptionNo-NoName of the credential object."<connector>Credential"
propertiesNo-NoConfiguration object






Example

PUT aspire/_api/credentials/2a5ca234-e328-4d40-bb2a-2df3e550b065
{
    "id": "2a5ca234-e328-4d40-bb2a-2df3e550b065",
    "description": "<connector>Credential",
    "properties": {
		
    }
}
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