Elastic Search Basic Curl Commands

Vipin Garg

2 years ago

Below are some basic curl commands for interacting with Elasticsearch. These commands cover common operations such as creating indices, adding documents, searching, updating, and deleting data. Replace <your-elasticsearch-url> with your Elasticsearch endpoint (e.g., https://localhost:9200).

1. Check Elasticsearch Status

curl -X GET "<your-elasticsearch-url>"

3. List All Indices

curl -X GET "<your-elasticsearch-url>/_cat/indices?v"

4. Create an Index

curl -X PUT "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>?pretty"

curl -X PUT "https://localhost:9200/my-index?pretty"

5. Delete an Index

curl -X DELETE "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>?pretty"

6. Add a Document

curl -X POST "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>/_doc/<document-id>?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "field1": "value1",
  "field2": "value2"
}'

curl -X POST "https://localhost:9200/my-index/_doc/1?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "age": 30
}'

7. Retrieve a Document by ID

curl -X GET "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>/_doc/<document-id>?pretty"

8. Search for Documents

curl -X GET "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>/_search?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }
}'

curl -X GET "https://localhost:9200/my-index/_search?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "name": "John"
    }
  }
}'

9. Update a Document

curl -X POST "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>/_update/<document-id>?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "doc": {
    "field1": "new-value1"
  }
}'

curl -X POST "https://localhost:9200/my-index/_update/1?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "doc": {
    "age": 31
  }
}'

10. Delete a Document

curl -X DELETE "<your-elasticsearch-url>/<index-name>/_doc/<document-id>?pretty"

11. Bulk Operations

curl -X POST "<your-elasticsearch-url>/_bulk?pretty" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '
{ "index": { "_index": "my-index", "_id": "1" } }
{ "field1": "value1", "field2": "value2" }
{ "delete": { "_index": "my-index", "_id": "2" } }

12. Delete all indics

curl -X DELETE 'https://localhost:9200/_all'

13. List all indics

curl -X https://localhost:9200/_all?pretty=true

14. Get results from a index

curl -X https://localhost:9200/{indexname}/_search?pretty=true

For example: https://localhost:9200/magento_product_1_v3/_search?pretty=true