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title: "What methods does Acquia Search powered by SearchStax provide for retrieving data into the index?"
date: "2025-01-30T11:12:22+00:00"
summary: "Discover multiple indexing methods for Acquia Search: Drupal connector, crawlers, and SearchStax API for diverse data formats."
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url: "/acquia-cloud-platform/help/60591-what-methods-does-acquia-search-powered-searchstax-provide-retrieving-data-index"
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Acquia Search powered by SearchStax offers multiple methods for indexing data. It supports connectors such as the [Drupal connector](https://www.drupal.org/project/searchstax) for real-time content indexing, crawlers for scheduled indexing from websites, and [SearchStax Data Ingest API](https://www.searchstax.com/docs/searchstudio/searchstax-studio-ingest-api/) for adding structured data from various formats such as JSON, XML, and CSV.

![A navigation menu with sections including Analytics, Search, Recommendations, and Connectors. The Connectors section, highlighted in yellow, contains two options: Crawler and Drupal Module.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/usji8ejdic/web/search-stx_connectors.png?h=480&v=c971d07d-6d23-4043-948b-366233a30cfc&itok=_HE4QRW5)