opensearch-docs-cn/_opensearch/rest-api/cat/cat-repositories.md

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title: cat repositories
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# cat repositories
Introduced 1.0
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The cat repositories operation lists all completed and ongoing index and shard recoveries.

## Example

```
GET _cat/repositories?v
```

## Path and HTTP methods

```
GET _cat/repositories
```

## URL parameters

All cat repositories URL parameters are optional.

In addition to the [common URL parameters]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/rest-api/cat/index#common-url-parameters), you can specify the following parameters:

Parameter | Type | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
local | Boolean | Whether to return information from the local node only instead of from the master node. Default is false.
master_timeout | Time | The amount of time to wait for a connection to the master node. Default is 30 seconds.


## Response

```json
id    type
repo1   fs
repo2   s3
```