How do I use elasticsearch wikipedia river?

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This might be a silly question, but I cannot find any information about this. I found the github but after I use the command nothing happened. So, after I installed the plugin, it worked fine, I used this command to create index. ``` curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_river/my_river/_meta -d ' { "type" : "wikipedia", "wikipedia" : { "url" : "http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2" }, "index" : { "name" : "my_index", "type" : "my_type", "bulk_size" : 100 } } ' ``` I got this back. ``` {"ok":true,"_index":"_river","_type":"my_river","_id":"_meta","_version":3} ``` which also worked fine. But it didn't do anything apart from that. I'm expecting the plugin to download and index the document and make it searchable. It seems like I have to do some other command but I cannot find it anywhere. I'm new to elasticsearch by the way. Please help. Edit: Log ``` [2013-03-26 20:17:14,864][INFO ][gateway ] [Captain Universe] recovered [0] indices into cluster_state […

Accepted Answer

Judging from `"_version":3` you updated the _meta document several times. Unfortunately, some rivers don't pickup changes in meta doc unless you recreate the type.

Try deleting the river (type in the _river index) using

```
curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/_river/my_river
```

command and creating the _meta document again. This will create type my_river again, which will trigger creation of river with new parameters. This problem occurred you initially created the river with wrong parameters and your correct parameter have no effect.

How do I use elasticsearch wikipedia river?

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