Ingest your files into Unstructured from Azure Blob Storage.

The requirements are as follows.

The following video shows how to fulfill the minimum set of Azure Storage account requirements:

If you are generating an SAS token as shown in the preceding video, be sure to set the following permissions:

  • Read and List for reading from the container only.
  • Write and List for writing to the container only.
  • Read, Write, and List for both reading from and writing to the container.

Here are some more details about these requirements:

  • An Azure account. To create one, learn how.

  • An Azure Storage account, and a container within that account. Create a storage account. Create a container.

  • The Azure Storage remote URL, using the format az://<container-name>/<path/to/file/or/folder/in/container/as/needed>

    For example, if your container is named my-container, and there is a folder in the container named my-folder, the Azure Storage remote URL would be az://my-container/my-folder/.

  • An SAS token (recommended), access key, or connection string for the Azure Storage account. Create an SAS token (recommended). Get an access key. Get a connection string.

    Create an SAS token (recommended):

    Get an access key or connection string:

To create or change an Azure Blob Storage source connector, see the following examples.

Replace the preceding placeholders as follows:

  • <name> (required) - A unique name for this connector.

  • az://<container-name>/<path/to/file/or/folder> (required) - The Azure Storage remote URL, with the format az://<container-name>/<path/to/file/or/folder/in/container/as/needed>

    For example, if your container is named my-container, and there is a folder in the container named my-folder, the Azure Storage remote URL would be az://my-container/my-folder/.

  • <account-name> (required for SAS token authentication and account key authentication) - The Azure Storage account name.

  • <sas-token> - For SAS token authentication, the SAS token for the Azure Storage account (required).

  • <account-key> - For account key authentication, the key for the Azure Storage account (required).

  • <connection-string> - For connection string authentication, the connection string for the Azure Storage account (required).

  • For recursive (source connector only), set to true to recursively access files from subfolders within the container. The default is false if not otherwise specified.

To change a connector, replace <connector-id> with the source connector’s unique ID. To get this ID, see List source connectors.

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