How do I index a file system folder through the API?

It's easy. Just follow this simple python script to index a directory folder through the API : 

import os

import urllib2

 

def get_filepaths(directory):

 

    file_paths = []  # List which will store all of the full filepaths.

 

    # Walk the tree.

    for root, directories, files in os.walk(directory):

        for filename in files:

            # Join the two strings in order to form the full filepath.

            filepath = os.path.join(root, filename)

            file_paths.append(filepath)  # Add it to the list.

 

    return file_paths

 

dirpath = "/Applications/SearchbloxServer/webapps/searchblox" #folder to index

full_file_paths = get_filepaths(dirpath)

 

posturl = "http://localhost:8080/searchblox/api/rest/docadd" # SearchBlox REST endpoint

apikey = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # SearchBlox API Key

collection = "FS" # SearchBlox collection name (Filesystem Collection only)

 

for line in full_file_paths:

    xml = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

        <searchblox apikey=\""""+apikey+"""\">

        <document colname=\""""+collection+"""\" location=\""""+line+"""\">

        </document> </searchblox>"""

 

    req = urllib2.Request(posturl)

    req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/xml')

    res = urllib2.urlopen(req, xml)

 

    response = res.readlines()

    print response