Do we can upload data into Elasticsearch using JSON file

Question

I am new to Elasticsearch, I would like to know whether we can transfer data in to Elasticsearch using JSON file.

Please help me with the process if its there, I tried doing like below:

curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_bulk --databinary @shakespeare.json"

But I am getting an error "could not connect to host".

Answer 1

Try below curl command.

curl -s -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/<indexName>/<indexType>/_bulk?pretty" --data-binary "@shakespeare.json"