crawler-plugin-tooling.md

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years 2020, 2024	2021-10-01	discovery-data

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Using a Cloud Pak for Data custom crawler plug-in from the Discovery user interface

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After you build and deploy a crawler plug-in, you can configure your {{site.data.keyword.discoveryshort}} collection to use your plug-in to process documents. {: shortdesc}

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This information applies only to installed deployments. {: note}

• You can create and manage a collection as described in Creating and managing collections.

• You can select a successfully deployed crawler plug-in when you create and manage a collection.

  For more information, see Crawler plug-in settings.

• You can also deploy a crawler plug-in package to a testing environment.