# tAvroInput

Extracts records from any given Avro format files for other components to process the records.

tAvroInput parses Avro format files in a given distributed file system and loads data to a data flow to pass the data to the transformation component that follows.

### In this section

* [tAvroInput properties for Apache Spark Batch](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/avro/tavroinput-properties-for-apache-spark-batch)
* [tAvroInput properties for Apache Spark Streaming (deprecated)](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/avro/tavroinput-properties-for-apache-spark-streaming)
* [tAvroInput properties for Apache Spark Structured Streaming](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/avro/tavroinput-properties-for-apache-spark-structured-streaming)