Run a scrolling search

GET /_search/scroll/{scroll_id}

IMPORTANT: The scroll API is no longer recommend for deep pagination. If you need to preserve the index state while paging through more than 10,000 hits, use the search_after parameter with a point in time (PIT).

The scroll API gets large sets of results from a single scrolling search request. To get the necessary scroll ID, submit a search API request that includes an argument for the scroll query parameter. The scroll parameter indicates how long Elasticsearch should retain the search context for the request. The search response returns a scroll ID in the _scroll_id response body parameter. You can then use the scroll ID with the scroll API to retrieve the next batch of results for the request. If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, the access to the results of a specific scroll ID is restricted to the user or API key that submitted the search.

You can also use the scroll API to specify a new scroll parameter that extends or shortens the retention period for the search context.

IMPORTANT: Results from a scrolling search reflect the state of the index at the time of the initial search request. Subsequent indexing or document changes only affect later search and scroll requests.

External documentation

Path parameters

Query parameters

  • scroll string

    Period to retain the search context for scrolling.

  • scroll_id string Deprecated

    The scroll ID for scrolled search

  • rest_total_hits_as_int boolean

    If true, the API response’s hit.total property is returned as an integer. If false, the API response’s hit.total property is returned as an object.

application/json

Body

  • scroll string

    A duration. Units can be nanos, micros, ms (milliseconds), s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours) and d (days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.

  • scroll_id string Required

Responses

GET /_search/scroll/{scroll_id} 
curl \
 -X GET http://api.example.com/_search/scroll/{scroll_id} \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"scroll":"string","scroll_id":"string"}'