Node.js 8 the Right Way

Implementing an Elasticsearch Query Command

Now that the documents are in the index, we can start querying for them. First we’ll take a look around using the existing get command, and then we’ll implement a specific command just for querying.

The Elasticsearch API endpoint we want to hit is /_search. We can already hit this endpoint using the get command. Let’s try that now.

​$ ​​./esclu​​ ​​get​​ ​​'_search'​​ ​​|​​ ​​jq​​ ​​'.'​​ ​​|​​ ​​head​​ ​​-n​​ ​​20​
{
  "took": 3,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
    "total": 5,
    "successful": 5,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
    "total": 53212,
    "max_score": 1,
 "hits": ...