import csv into elasticsearch - csv

Question

I'm doing "elastic search getting started" tutorial. Unfortunatelly this tutorial doesn't cover first step which is importing csv database into elasticsearch.
I googled to find solution but it doesn't work unfortunatelly. Here is what I want to achieve and what I have:
I have a file with data which I want to import (simplified)
id,title
10,Homer's Night Out
12,Krusty Gets Busted
I would like to import it using logstash. After research over the internet I end up with following config:
input {
file {
path => ["simpsons_episodes.csv"]
start_position => "beginning"
}
}
filter {
csv {
columns => [
"id",
"title"
]
}
}
output {
stdout { codec => rubydebug }
elasticsearch {
action => "index"
hosts => ["127.0.0.1:9200"]
index => "simpsons"
document_type => "episode"
workers => 1
}
}
I have a trouble with specifying document type so once data is imported and I navigate to http://localhost:9200/simpsons/episode/10 I expect to see result with episode 10.

Answer 1

Good job, you're almost there, you're only missing the document ID. You need to modify your elasticsearch output like this:
elasticsearch {
action => "index"
hosts => ["127.0.0.1:9200"]
index => "simpsons"
document_type => "episode"
document_id => "%{id}" <---- add this line
workers => 1
}
After this you'll be able to query episode with id 10
GET http://localhost:9200/simpsons/episode/10

Answer 2

I'm the author of moshe/elasticsearch_loader
I wrote ESL for this exact problem.
You can download it with pip:
pip install elasticsearch-loader
And then you will be able to load csv files into elasticsearch by issuing:
elasticsearch_loader --index incidents --type incident csv file1.csv
Additionally, you can use custom id file by adding --id-field=document_id to the command line