How to search ES from the command line

[AndyB]

I would like to query ES from the command line, what would I use to search for a single word? I assume it's something like this:

curl http://localhost:9200/index/type/_search?q=test1234

 

[Slavik]

I would like to query ES from the command line, what would I use to search for a single word? I assume it's something like this:

curl http://localhost:9200/index/type/_search?q=test1234

You need to define the search feild.

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/uri-request/

 

[AndyB]

Hi Slavik,

The problem I don't know what the search field options are. Are you talking about message and title or some other field? Could you provide an example of a command line that would search the message text for "test1234".

Thank you.

 

[MattW]

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/index/_search?q=message:test1234'

 

[AndyB]

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/index/_search?q=message:test1234'

Thank you, Matt.

That worked perfect once I replaced the word 'index' with my database name.

 

[AndyB]

I would like to be able to search by user_id and keyword, but this doesn't work.

curl 'http://localhost:9200/database_name/_search?user=1&q=message:andy'

I need to find the correct user=1 part of this command.

 

[MattW]

This works for me

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/z22se/_search?q=user:1&q=message:test'

 

[AndyB]

Unfortunately that returns the same results as without the user switch.

I now see why. Reading Slavik's post #2 I can see that the URI type of command is very limited.

Looks like I have to learn how to do a DSL type of query in order to do more advances queries. More information here for me to read.

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/