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title: "Can I use Nutch to index my non-Drupal data for search?"
date: "2025-05-28T06:52:59+00:00"
summary: "Learn why Nutch can't index external data for Acquia Search and discover alternative methods to include non-Drupal content in your search index."
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type: "article"
url: "/acquia-cloud-platform/help/69431-can-i-use-nutch-index-my-non-drupal-data-search"
id: "9638971c-c36f-4783-8ec1-f8ec2ce47d7a"
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Acquia Search does not support using [Nutch](http://nutch.apache.org/) to index external data. For data security, the Acquia Search architecture requires authentication, which Nutch does not natively support.

Acquia recommends exporting your non-Drupal content into a Drupal website using contributed modules such as [Feeds](https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds) or [Migrate](https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate) to transform your data into Drupal entities, which Acquia Search may then index.