Web Connector 26.3
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# IngestAsPlainText

Web Connector creates a document for each web page that you have chosen to ingest. A document is ingested with a HTML file that represents the web page after it has been processed (the connector can clip irrelevant content, remove scripts, convert hyperlinks to absolute URLs, and so on). Your ingestion pipeline can populate the `DRECONTENT` field of each document by extracting text from its associated file.

Alternatively, setting `IngestAsPlainText=TRUE` configures the Web Connector to ingest content as plain text. In this case Web Connector downloads each page you have chosen to ingest, processes it (performing clipping, removing scripts, and so on), and then extracts the text. The text is added to the `DRECONTENT` document field. The connector ingests metadata-only documents (the documents do not have associated HTML files).

Using the connector to extract text is likely to produce better results than File Content Extraction, because the connector processes HTML using the HTML Document Object Model (DOM).

Type: | Boolean
Default: | False
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | TaskName or FetchTasks or Default
Example: | `IngestAsPlainText=TRUE`
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Product: Knowledge Discovery Web Connector 26.3

Topic Title: IngestAsPlainText