AZURE COGNITIVE SEARCH: Create Indexer through POSTMAN

This post was most recently updated on October 19th, 2022

Indexers use a predefined data source and index to establish an indexing pipeline that extracts and serializes source data, passing it to a search service for data ingestion.

• Method: POST
• URL: https://[name of the search service].search.windows.net/indexers?api-version=[api version]
• Authorization:
  Type – API Key
  Vale- [Value of the Primary Key]
  Add to- Header
• Headers:
  Content-Type- “application/json”
  API-Key – [value of the api key]
• Body:
  {
    “name”: [name of the indexer] (required for POST),
    “description”: null,
   “dataSourceName”: [name of the datasource being used], 
   “targetIndexName”: [index refered to],
  “disabled”: null,
  “skillsetName” : (required for AI enrichment) “Name of an existing skillset”,
  “schedule” : (optional but runs once immediately if unspecified) { … },
  “parameters”: {
    “batchSize”: null,
    “maxFailedItems”: null,
    “maxFailedItemsPerBatch”: null,
    “base64EncodeKeys”: null,
    “configuration”: {}
    },
    “fieldMappings”: [],
   “outputFieldMappings”: [],
    “encryptionKey”: null
  }

• Response: 201 Created