Answers.Body: <p>Not natively, but you could easily write a <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/introduction" rel="nofollow">plugin</a> with a <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/controllers" rel="nofollow">controller</a> that exposes the <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/classreference/services/AssetIndexingService" rel="nofollow">AssetIndexingService</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
Body: <p>Is it possible to trigger an update of the asset indices from an url endpoint? I guess not, but is it planned to provide some kind of API?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Did you manage to solve this or writing anything for this @larsbilke?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Terry Upton
Tags: <assets><reindex>
Title: Trigger Update Asset Index from url endpoint
ThreadText: # Trigger Update Asset Index from url endpoint
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-26)
  
  Is it possible to trigger an update of the asset indices from an url endpoint? I guess not, but is it planned to provide some kind of API?
  
  **Tags:** assets, reindex
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Did you manage to solve this or writing anything for this @username_0?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-02-26. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  Not natively, but you could easily write a [plugin](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/introduction) with a [controller](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/controllers) that exposes the [AssetIndexingService](http://buildwithcraft.com/classreference/services/AssetIndexingService).
  
  
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