gistfile1.txt

curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_river/cloudant-indexer/_meta -d '{"type":"couchdb",
     "couchdb":
        {"host":"...",
         "port":5984,
         "user":"...",
         "password":"...",
         "db":"indexer",
         "filter":null},
     "index":
        {"index":"cloudant-indexer",
         "type":"cloudant-indexer",
         "bulk_size":"100",
         "bulk_timeout":"10ms"}}}'