Extracting a file with Solr & Tika for indexing using Python

gistfile1.py

import json
import os
import urllib2

from poster.encode import multipart_encode
from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers

# Register poster to urllib2
register_openers()

SOLR_URL = 'http://localhost:8080/solr/'
filepath = '/tmp/test.pdf'

datagen, headers = multipart_encode({'extractOnly': 'true',
                                     'wt': 'json',
                                     basename: open(filepath, "rb")})
request = urllib2.Request(SOLR_URL.rstrip('/')
                          + "/update/extract",
                          datagen, headers)
p = urllib2.urlopen(request)

if p.getcode() != 200:
    raise Exception("Error reading file %r with solr" % filepath)

result = json.loads(p.read())
if filepath not in result:
    raise Exception("Solr error parsing file content %r: %r" % (filepath, result))

content = result[filepath]