[[clear-scroll-api]]
=== Clear scroll API
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<titleabbrev>Clear scroll</titleabbrev>
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Clears the search context and results for a
<<scroll-search-results,scrolling search>>.

////
[source,console]
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GET /_search?scroll=1m
{
  "size": 1,
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }
}
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// TEST[setup:my_index]
////

[source,console]
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DELETE /_search/scroll
{
  "scroll_id" : "DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAAAAAD4WYm9laVYtZndUQlNsdDcwakFMNjU1QQ=="
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[continued]
// TEST[s/DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAAAAAD4WYm9laVYtZndUQlNsdDcwakFMNjU1QQ==/$body._scroll_id/]

[[clear-scroll-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_search/scroll/<scroll_id>`
deprecated:[7.0.0]

`DELETE /_search/scroll`

[[clear-scroll-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<scroll_id>`::
deprecated:[7.0.0]
(Optional, string)
Comma-separated list of scroll IDs to clear. To clear all scroll IDs, use `_all`.
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IMPORTANT: Scroll IDs can be long. We recommend only specifying
scroll IDs using the <<clear-scroll-api-scroll-id-param,`scroll_id` request body
parameter>>.

[[clear-scroll-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

`scroll_id`::
deprecated:[7.0.0]
(Optional, string)
Comma-separated list of scroll IDs to clear. To clear all scroll IDs, use `_all`.
+
IMPORTANT: Scroll IDs can be long. We recommend only specifying
scroll IDs using the <<clear-scroll-api-scroll-id-param,`scroll_id` request body
parameter>>.

[role="child_attributes"]
[[clear-scroll-api-request-body]]
==== {api-request-body-title}

[[clear-scroll-api-scroll-id-param]]
`scroll_id`::
(Required, string or array of strings)
Scroll IDs to clear. To clear all scroll IDs, use `_all`.

[role="child_attributes"]
[[clear-scroll-api-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

`succeeded`::
(boolean)
If `true`, the request succeeded. This does not indicate whether any scrolling
search requests were cleared.

`num_freed`::
(integer)
Number of scrolling search requests cleared.