[[search-search]]
=== Search

Returns search hits that match the query defined in the request.

[source,js]
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GET /twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:twitter]


[[search-search-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /{index}/_search` +

`GET /all/_search`


[[search-search-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Allows you to execute a search query and get back search hits that match the 
query. The query can either be provided using a simple
<<search-uri-request,query string as a parameter>>, or using a
<<search-request-body,request body>>.

[[search-partial-responses]]
===== Partial responses

To ensure fast responses, the search API will respond with partial results if 
one or more shards fail. See <<shard-failures, Shard failures>> for more 
information.

[[search-search-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index]


[[search-search-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=allow-no-indices]
  
`allow_partial_search_results`::
  (Optional, boolean) Indicates if an error should be returned if there is a 
  partial search failure or timeout. Defaults to `true`.

`analyzer`::
  (Optional, string) Defines the analyzer to use for the query string.
  
`analyze_wildcard`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, wildcard and prefix queries will also be 
  analyzed. Defaults to `false`.
  
`batched_reduce_size`::
  (Optional, integer) 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. Defaults to `512`.
  
`ccs_minimize_roundtrips`::
  (Optional, boolean) Indicates whether network round-trips should be minimized 
  as part of cross-cluster search requests execution. Defaults to `true`.
  
`default_operator`::
  (Optional, string) The default operator for query string query (AND or OR). 
  Defaults to `OR`.
  
`df`::
  (Optional, string) Defines the field to use as default where no field prefix 
  is given in the query string.
  
`docvalue_fields`::
  (Optional, string) A comma-separated list of fields to return as the docvalue 
  representation of a field for each hit.
  
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=expand-wildcards]
+
Defaults to `open`.
  
`explain`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, returns detailed information about score 
  computation as part of a hit. Defaults to `false`.
  
`from`::
  (Optional, integer) Defines the starting offset. Defaults to `0`.

`ignore_throttled`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, concrete, expanded or aliased indices will be 
  ignored when throttled. Defaults to `false`.

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index-ignore-unavailable]
  
`lenient`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, format-based query failures (such as 
  providing text to a numeric field) will be ignored. Defaults to `false`.
  
`max_concurrent_shard_requests`::
  (Optional, integer) Defines the number of concurrent shard requests per node 
  this search executes concurrently. This value should be used to limit the 
  impact of the search on the cluster in order to limit the number of concurrent 
  shard requests. Defaults to `5`.
  
`pre_filter_shard_size`::
  (Optional, integer) Defines a threshold that enforces a pre-filter roundtrip 
  to prefilter search shards based on query rewriting if the number of shards 
  the search request expands to exceeds the threshold. This filter roundtrip can 
  limit the number of shards significantly if for instance a shard can not match 
  any documents based on it's rewrite method ie. if date filters are mandatory 
  to match but the shard bounds and the query are disjoint. Defaults to `128`.

`preference`::
  (Optional, string) Specifies the node or shard the operation should be 
  performed on. Random by default.
  
`q`::
  (Optional, string) Query in the Lucene query string syntax.

`request_cache`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, request cache will be used for this request. 
  Defaults to index level settings.
  
`rest_total_hits_as_int`::
  (Optional, boolean) Indicates whether hits.total should be rendered as an 
  integer or an object in the rest search response. Defaults to `false`.

`routing`::
  (Optional, <<time-units, time units>>) Specifies how long a consistent view of 
  the index should be maintained for scrolled search.
  
`search_type`::
  (Optional, string) Defines the type of the search operation. Available 
  options:
  * `query_then_fetch`
  * `dfs_query_then_fetch`

`seq_no_primary_term`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, returns sequence number and primary term of the 
  last modification of each hit.

`size`::
  (Optional, integer) Defines the number of hits to return. Defaults to `10`.
  
`sort`::
  (Optional, string) A comma-separated list of <field>:<direction> pairs.
  
`_source`::
  (Optional, string) True or false to return the `_source` field or not, or a 
  list of fields to return.
  
`_source_excludes`::
  (Optional, string) A list of fields to exclude from the returned `_source` 
  field.
  
`_source_includes`::
  (Optional, string) A list of fields to extract and return from the `_source` 
  field.
  
`stats`::
  (Optional, string) Specific `tag` of the request for logging and statistical 
  purposes.

`stored_fields`::
  (Optional, string) A comma-separated list of stored fields to return as part 
  of a hit.
  
`suggest_field`::
  (Optional, string) Specifies which field to use for suggestions.
  
`suggest_mode`::
  (Optional, string) Specifies suggest mode. Defaults to `missing`. Available 
  options:
  * `always`
  * `missing`
  * `popular`
  
`suggest_size`::
  (Optional, integer) Defines how many suggestions to return in response.
  
`suggest_text`::
  (Optional, string) The source text for which the suggestions should be 
  returned.
  
`terminate_after`::
  (Optional, integer) The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard, 
  upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early.
  
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=timeout]

`track_scores`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, then calculates and returns scores even if they 
  are not used for sorting.
  
`track_total_hits`::
  (Optional, boolean) Indicates if the number of documents that match the query 
  should be tracked.
  
`typed_keys`::
  (Optional, boolean) Specifies whether aggregation and suggester names should 
  be prefixed by their respective types in the response.
  
`version`::
  (Optional, boolean) If `true`, returns document version as part of a hit.


[[search-search-api-request-body]]
==== {api-request-body-title}

`query`::
  (Optional, <<query-dsl,query object>>) Defines the search definition using the 
  <<query-dsl,Query DSL>>.


[[search-search-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

["float",id="search-multi-index"]
===== Multi-Index

All search APIs can be applied across multiple indices with support for
the <<multi-index,multi index syntax>>. For
example, we can search on all documents within the twitter index:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET /twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:twitter]

We can also search all documents with a certain tag across several indices
(for example, when there is one index per user):

[source,js]
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GET /kimchy,elasticsearch/_search?q=tag:wow
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/^/PUT kimchy\nPUT elasticsearch\n/]

Or we can search across all available indices using `_all`:

[source,js]
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GET /_all/_search?q=tag:wow
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:twitter]
