Adding Data

Supported file types

Parquet

.parquet, .pq

Fastest — columnar + compressed

CSV

.csv, .tsv

Auto-detects delimiters + encoding

Excel

.xlsx, .xls

Reads every sheet

Documents

.pdf, .docx, .pptx, .html

Converted to markdown for search

Adding folders

  1. 1. Open the main window → Folders tab.
  2. 2. Click “+ Add Folder”.
  3. 3. Pick the folder. Sery watches it for changes so new files are indexed automatically.

You can add as many folders as you like. Sery indexes metadata only — raw file contents never upload, even when the folder contains large datasets.

Cloud sources

Sery Link can also pull data from cloud storage and shared URLs. Click “+ Add remote source” in the Folders tab to open the picker. Credentials and OAuth tokens live in your OS keychain on the desktop machine — they never reach Sery's servers, the same way local folders work.

S3 / public URLs

  • •s3:// buckets with AWS access keys
  • •Direct https:// links to .csv / .parquet / .json

Google Drive

  • •OAuth — read-only scope, no write access
  • •Pick any folder; subfolders are walked recursively
  • •Google Sheets export to .xlsx (every tab preserved)
  • •Re-walks once an hour to catch new files
Connect source · S3
Source name
analytics-prod
Bucket
my-company-analytics
Region
us-east-1
Access key ID
AKIA••••••XYZkeychain
Secret access key
••••••••••••keychain
pre-flight passed · 4,201 keyskeychain · macOS

Drive types we don't support yet: Google Docs, Forms, Drawings, and Sites. Sery Link tells you up-front how many were skipped when you watch a folder. Docs export support is on the v0.7 roadmap.

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