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URI Searchedit
Specifies search criteria as query parameters in the request URI.
GET twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy
Requestedit
GET /<index>/_search?q=<parameter>
Descriptionedit
You can use query parameters to define your search criteria directly in the request URI, rather than in the request body. Request URI searches do not support the full Elasticsearch Query DSL, but are handy for testing.
Path parametersedit
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<index>
- (Optional, string) Comma-separated list or wildcard expression of index names used to limit the request.
Query parametersedit
See the search API’s query parameters.
Examplesedit
GET twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy
The API returns the following response:
{ "timed_out": false, "took": 62, "_shards":{ "total" : 1, "successful" : 1, "skipped" : 0, "failed" : 0 }, "hits":{ "total" : { "value": 1, "relation": "eq" }, "max_score": 1.3862942, "hits" : [ { "_index" : "twitter", "_type" : "_doc", "_id" : "0", "_score": 1.3862942, "_source" : { "user" : "kimchy", "date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch", "likes": 0 } } ] } }