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Connect OpenSearch to your preprocessing pipeline, and use the Unstructured Ingest CLI or the Unstructured Ingest Python library to batch process all your documents and store structured outputs locally on your filesystem.

You will need:

The OpenSearch prerequisites:

The OpenSearch connector dependencies:

CLI, Python
pip install "unstructured-ingest[opensearch]"

You might also need to install additional dependencies, depending on your needs. Learn more.

The following environment variables:

  • OPENSEARCH_HOST - The hostname and port number, defined as <hostname>:<port-number> and represented by --hosts (CLI) or hosts (Python).
  • OPENSEARCH_INDEX_NAME - The name of the search index, represented by --index-name (CLI) or index_name (Python).

If you’re using basic authentication to the instance:

  • OPENSEARCH_USERNAME - The user’s name, represented by --username (CLI) or username (Python).
  • OPENSEARCH_PASSWORD - The user’s password, represented by --password (CLI) or password (Python).

If you’re using certificates for authentication instead:

  • OPENSEARCH_CA_CERTS - The path to the Certificate Authority (CA) bundle, if you use intermediate CAs with your root CA. This is represented by --ca-certs (CLI) or ca_certs (Python).
  • OPENSEARCH_CLIENT_CERT - The path to the combined private key and certificate file, or the path to just the certificate file. This is represented by --client-cert (CLI) or client_cert (Python).
  • OPENSEARCH_CLIENT_KEY - The path to the private key file, if OPENSEARCH_CLIENT_CERT refers to just the certificate file. This is represented by --client-key (CLI) or client_key (Python).

Additional related settings include:

  • --use-ssl (CLI) or use_ssl=True (Python) to use SSL for the connection.
  • --verify-certs (CLI) or verify_certs=True (Python) to verify SSL certificates.
  • --ssl-show-warn (CLI) or ssl_show_warn=True (Python) to show a warning when verifying SSL certificates is disabled.

These environment variables:

  • UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY - Your Unstructured API key value.
  • UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL - Your Unstructured API URL.

Now call the Unstructured CLI or Python SDK. The destination connector can be any of the ones supported. This example uses the local destination connector: