[[indices-get-index]]
== Get Index

The get index API allows to retrieve information about one or more indexes.

[source,js]
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GET /twitter
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:twitter]

The above example gets the information for an index called `twitter`. Specifying an index,
alias or wildcard expression is required.

The get index API can also be applied to more than one index, or on
all indices by using `_all` or `*` as index.

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=== Skipping types

Types are scheduled to be fully removed in Elasticsearch 8.0 and will not appear
in requests or responses anymore. You can opt in for this future behaviour by
setting `include_type_name=false` in the request, which will return mappings
directly under `mappings` without keying by the type name.

Here is an example:

[source,js]
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PUT test?include_type_name=false
{
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "foo": {
        "type": "keyword"
      }
    }
  }
}

GET test?include_type_name=false
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// CONSOLE

which returns

[source,js]
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{
    "test": {
        "aliases": {},
        "mappings": {
            "properties": {
                "foo": {
                    "type": "keyword"
                }
            }
        },
        "settings": {
            "index": {
                "creation_date": "1547028674905",
                "number_of_shards": "1",
                "number_of_replicas": "1",
                "uuid": "u1YpkPqLSqGIn3kNAvY8cA",
                "version": {
                    "created": ...
                },
                "provided_name": "test"
            }
        }
    }
}
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/1547028674905/$body.test.settings.index.creation_date/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/u1YpkPqLSqGIn3kNAvY8cA/$body.test.settings.index.uuid/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"created": \.\.\./"created": $body.test.settings.index.version.created/]