Configuring SearchBlox

Before using the GitHub Data Source, SearchBlox has to be installed and set up successfully. Then create a Custom Collection.

Configuration details of GitHub Data Source

Accessing Connector UI

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Note:
In Linux, make sure that necessary permissions have been provided to the folder /opt by using the CHMOD command for writing log files and executing jar files.


username	User Name in GitHub
password	Password in GitHub
data-directory	Data Folder where the data needs to be stored. Make sure it has write permission.
api-key	SearchBlox API Key
colname	The name of the custom collection in SearchBlox.
url	SearchBlox URL
githuburl	GitHub URL example: https://api.github.com
public-repos	If public repos are to be indexed give the value as true otherwise false. By default the value would be true , otherwise all repos in public would start to get indexed.
exclude-repo	repos to exclude.
include-users	User repos to include.
include-orgs	Organization repos to include.
exclude-files	Files not to be indexed from GitHub.
exclude-formats	File formats to exclude in GitHub.
exclude-folders	Folders to exclude in GitHub.
max-folder-size	Maximum size of static folder after which it should be sweeped in MB.
servlet url & delete-api-url:	Make sure that the port number is right. If your SearchBlox runs in 8080 port the URLs should be right.

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