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== API Extension Plugins

API extension plugins add new functionality to Elasticsearch by adding new APIs or features, usually to do with search or mapping.

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=== Community contributed API extension plugins

A number of plugins have been contributed by our community:

* https://github.com/carrot2/elasticsearch-carrot2[carrot2 Plugin]:
  Results clustering with https://github.com/carrot2/carrot2[carrot2] (by Dawid Weiss)

* https://github.com/wikimedia/search-extra[Elasticsearch Trigram Accelerated Regular Expression Filter]:
  (by Wikimedia Foundation/Nik Everett)

* https://github.com/wikimedia/search-highlighter[Elasticsearch Experimental Highlighter]:
  (by Wikimedia Foundation/Nik Everett)

* https://github.com/YannBrrd/elasticsearch-entity-resolution[Entity Resolution Plugin]:
  Uses https://github.com/larsga/Duke[Duke] for duplication detection (by Yann Barraud)
  
* https://github.com/zentity-io/zentity[Entity Resolution Plugin] (https://zentity.io[zentity]):
  Real-time entity resolution with pure Elasticsearch (by Dave Moore)

* https://github.com/ritesh-kapoor/elasticsearch-pql[PQL language Plugin]:
  Allows Elasticsearch to be queried with simple pipeline query syntax.

* https://github.com/codelibs/elasticsearch-taste[Elasticsearch Taste Plugin]:
  Mahout Taste-based Collaborative Filtering implementation (by CodeLibs Project)

* https://github.com/jurgc11/es-change-feed-plugin[WebSocket Change Feed Plugin] (by ForgeRock/Chris Clifton)