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user6754289

Reputation: 437

curl post for elasticsearch in python

I have a curl POST to do for elasticsearch:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/index/name" --data-binary "@file.json"

How can I do this in a python shell? Basically because i need to loop over many json files. I want to be able to do this in a for loop.

import glob
import os
import requests



def index_data(path):
    item = []
    for filename in glob.glob(path):
        item.append(filename[55:81]+'.json')
    return item

def send_post(url, datafiles):
    r = requests.post(url, data=file(datafiles,'rb').read())
    data = r.text
    return data

def main():
    url = 'http://localhost:9200/index/name'
    metpath = r'C:\pathtofiledirectory\*.json'
    jsonfiles = index_data(metpath)
    send_post(url, jsonfiles)   

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

I fixed to do this, but is giving me a TypeError:

TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found

Upvotes: 2

Views: 10805

Answers (2)

Bertrand Martel
Bertrand Martel

Reputation: 45352

You can use requests http client :

import requests

files = ['file.json', 'file1.json', 'file2.json', 'file3.json', 'file4.json']

for item in files:
    req = requests.post('http://localhost:9200/index/name',data=file(item,'rb').read())
    print req.text

From your edit, you would need :

for item in jsonfiles:
    send_post(url, item)

Upvotes: 3

Aulo
Aulo

Reputation: 141

Use the requests library.

import requests
r = requests.post(url, data=data)

It is as simple as that.

Upvotes: 0

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