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URI Search

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URI Search

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A search request can be executed purely using a URI by providing request parameters. Not all search options are exposed when executing a search using this mode, but it can be handy for quick "curl tests". Here is an example:

GET twitter/tweet/_search?q=user:kimchy

And here is a sample response:

{
    "timed_out": false,
    "took": 62,
    "_shards":{
        "total" : 1,
        "successful" : 1,
        "skipped" : 0,
        "failed" : 0
    },
    "hits":{
        "total" : 1,
        "max_score": 1.3862944,
        "hits" : [
            {
                "_index" : "twitter",
                "_type" : "tweet",
                "_id" : "0",
                "_score": 1.3862944,
                "_source" : {
                    "user" : "kimchy",
                    "date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
                    "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch",
                    "likes": 0
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Parameters

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The parameters allowed in the URI are:

Name	Description
`q`	The query string (maps to the `query_string` query, see Query String Query for more details).
`df`	The default field to use when no field prefix is defined within the query.
`analyzer`	The analyzer name to be used when analyzing the query string.
`analyze_wildcard`	Should wildcard and prefix queries be analyzed or not. Defaults to `false`.
`batched_reduce_size`	The number of shard results that should be reduced at once on the coordinating node. This value should be used as a protection mechanism to reduce the memory overhead per search request if the potential number of shards in the request can be large.
`default_operator`	The default operator to be used, can be `AND` or `OR`. Defaults to `OR`.
`lenient`	If set to true will cause format based failures (like providing text to a numeric field) to be ignored. Defaults to false.
`explain`	For each hit, contain an explanation of how scoring of the hits was computed.
`_source`	Set to `false` to disable retrieval of the `_source` field. You can also retrieve part of the document by using `_source_include` & `_source_exclude` (see the request body documentation for more details)
`stored_fields`	The selective stored fields of the document to return for each hit, comma delimited. Not specifying any value will cause no fields to return.
`sort`	Sorting to perform. Can either be in the form of `fieldName`, or `fieldName:asc`/`fieldName:desc`. The fieldName can either be an actual field within the document, or the special `_score` name to indicate sorting based on scores. There can be several `sort` parameters (order is important).
`track_scores`	When sorting, set to `true` in order to still track scores and return them as part of each hit.
`timeout`	A search timeout, bounding the search request to be executed within the specified time value and bail with the hits accumulated up to that point when expired. Defaults to no timeout.
`terminate_after`	The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard, upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early. If set, the response will have a boolean field `terminated_early` to indicate whether the query execution has actually terminated_early. Defaults to no terminate_after.
`from`	The starting from index of the hits to return. Defaults to `0`.
`size`	The number of hits to return. Defaults to `10`.
`search_type`	The type of the search operation to perform. Can be `dfs_query_then_fetch` or `query_then_fetch`. Defaults to `query_then_fetch`. See Search Type for more details on the different types of search that can be performed.

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