Getting data in via rest api

[acherman]

Per this doc. http://dev.splunk.com/view/basic-tutorial/SP-CAAADQT

There are 3 ways to load the data. File or directory, network port, or directly using the API.

There are a huge variety of ways to add data into Splunk. Here, we'll briefly cover adding data in three ways: by telling splunk to index a file or directory; to index a network port; or to pass the data directly via the API.

How can I load this data directly with the API? The example is missing?

[martin_mueller · Accepted solution]

You're probably looking for this: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/RESTAPI/RESTinput#receivers.2Fsimple