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What are we going to do here?
Elastic Open Crawler is the successor to Elastic’s hosted crawler.
Semantic Text is Elastic’s easy on-ramp data type for getting up and running with semantic search.
Together, they are The New(ish) Kids on the Block.
Follow along to learn how to easily configure and run the Open Crawler to crawl a website (Search Labs’ blogs in this case), automatically chunk and generate sparse vector embeddings with ELSER for that web content (blog text), and run a few sample searches to ensure everything worked out.
Choose your own adventure
- If you want to run through this in a free, on-demand workshop environment - click here.
- If you’d rather watch a video of this walkthrough - follow this link.
- If you're ready to get straight to the practical part, check out it's Getting started doc or read more in the beta announcement blog
- Or read a great article on our Discuss forums - Dec 12th, 2024: [EN] Swing through web content like a superhero
- If you like reading blogs, continue!