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How do you use Splunk to search within document text of wiki server and SharePoint data sources?

roseneric4
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Is it possible to use Splunk as search engine that uses a wiki server and SharePoint as its data sources? It must search within document text for example the contents of the files in a SharePoint document library.

The idea is to create a dashboard with a nice simple search interface that brings back the "articles" highlighting the key term and filtering down based on certain functional or application name etc.

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sduff_splunk
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Splunk Employee

Splunk does not have a web-crawler component, you would need to fetch all the documents from SharePoint through some means.

Unfortunately, the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Office 365 only fetches the audit logs for SharePoint, not the actual data. There may be some way to use the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services to fetch the data from Azure Storage Tables, but I am not 100% certain if SharePoint data is accessible via that means.

It seems like the 'official' way is to use one of the methods described at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/sharepoint-net-server-csom-jsom-and-rest-... to fetch the data, most likely the REST API. You would need to write a script to do the following:

This page probably describes the details of what you'll need to develop.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/get-to-know-the-sharepoint-rest-service

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