Command line tools for getting data in and out of Elasticsearch: esload (load data into es) and esdump (dump data out of es). Connect the two with a pipe and profit.
pip install --upgrade https://github.com/mkocikowski/estools/archive/master.zip
esload --help
esdump --help
Load data from file data1.json (one document per line) into index
index1 with document type doctype1, on localhost:
esload index1 doctype1 < data1.json
Dump data from index index1 document type doctype1 into file:
esdump index1 doctype1 > data1.json
The project uses the MIT license:
Copyright (c) 2013 Mikolaj Kocikowski
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.