Elasticsearch Documentation

Release 6.3.0

Honza Král

Jul 16, 2018

 Contents

1 Compatibility 3

2 Installation 5

3 Example Usage 7

4 Features 9
4.1 Persistent Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2 Automatic Retries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3 Sniffing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4 Thread safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.5 SSL and Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5 Environment considerations 13
5.1 Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2 Running on AWS with IAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6 Customization 15
6.1 Custom serializers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

7 Contents 17
7.1 API Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.2 X-Pack APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
7.3 Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
7.4 Connection Layer API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
7.5 Transport classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.6 Helpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
7.7 Changelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

8 License 93

9 Indices and tables 95

Python Module Index 97

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Official low-level client for Elasticsearch. Its goal is to provide common ground for all Elasticsearch-related code in
Python; because of this it tries to be opinion-free and very extendable.
For a more high level client library with more limited scope, have a look at elasticsearch-dsl - it is a more pythonic
library sitting on top of elasticsearch-py.

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Compatibility

The library is compatible with all Elasticsearch versions since 0.90.x but you have to use a matching major
version:
For Elasticsearch 6.0 and later, use the major version 6 (6.x.y) of the library.
For Elasticsearch 5.0 and later, use the major version 5 (5.x.y) of the library.
For Elasticsearch 2.0 and later, use the major version 2 (2.x.y) of the library, and so on.
The recommended way to set your requirements in your setup.py or requirements.txt is:

# Elasticsearch 6.x
elasticsearch>=6.0.0,<7.0.0

# Elasticsearch 5.x
elasticsearch>=5.0.0,<6.0.0

# Elasticsearch 2.x
elasticsearch>=2.0.0,<3.0.0

If you have a need to have multiple versions installed at the same time older versions are also released as
elasticsearch2 and elasticsearch5.

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Installation

Install the elasticsearch package with pip:

pip install elasticsearch

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Example Usage

from datetime import datetime

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch()

doc = {
'author': 'kimchy',
'text': 'Elasticsearch: cool. bonsai cool.',
'timestamp': datetime.now(),
}
res = es.index(index="test-index", doc_type='tweet', id=1, body=doc)
print(res['result'])

res = es.get(index="test-index", doc_type='tweet', id=1)

print(res['_source'])

es.indices.refresh(index="test-index")

res = es.search(index="test-index", body={"query": {"match_all": {}}})

print("Got %d Hits:" % res['hits']['total'])
for hit in res['hits']['hits']:
print("%(timestamp)s %(author)s: %(text)s" % hit["_source"])

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Features

This client was designed as very thin wrapper around Elasticsearch’s REST API to allow for maximum flexibility. This
means that there are no opinions in this client; it also means that some of the APIs are a little cumbersome to use from
Python. We have created some Helpers to help with this issue as well as a more high level library (elasticsearch-dsl)
on top of this one to provide a more convenient way of working with Elasticsearch.

4.1 Persistent Connections

elasticsearch-py uses persistent connections inside of individual connection pools (one per each configured or
sniffed node). Out of the box you can choose between two http protocol implementations. See Transport classes for
more information.
The transport layer will create an instance of the selected connection class per node and keep track of the health of
individual nodes - if a node becomes unresponsive (throwing exceptions while connecting to it) it’s put on a timeout
by the ConnectionPool class and only returned to the circulation after the timeout is over (or when no live nodes
are left). By default nodes are randomized before being passed into the pool and round-robin strategy is used for load
balancing.
You can customize this behavior by passing parameters to the Connection Layer API (all keyword arguments to the
Elasticsearch class will be passed through). If what you want to accomplish is not supported you should be
able to create a subclass of the relevant component and pass it in as a parameter to be used instead of the default
implementation.

4.2 Automatic Retries

If a connection to a node fails due to connection issues (raises ConnectionError) it is considered in faulty state.
It will be placed on hold for dead_timeout seconds and the request will be retried on another node. If a connection
fails multiple times in a row the timeout will get progressively larger to avoid hitting a node that’s, by all indication,
down. If no live connection is available, the connection that has the smallest timeout will be used.

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By default retries are not triggered by a timeout (ConnectionTimeout), set retry_on_timeout to True to
also retry on timeouts.

4.3 Sniffing

The client can be configured to inspect the cluster state to get a list of nodes upon startup, periodically and/or on
failure. See Transport parameters for details.
Some example configurations:
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

# by default we don't sniff, ever

es = Elasticsearch()

# you can specify to sniff on startup to inspect the cluster and load
# balance across all nodes
es = Elasticsearch(["seed1", "seed2"], sniff_on_start=True)

# you can also sniff periodically and/or after failure:

es = Elasticsearch(["seed1", "seed2"],
sniff_on_start=True,
sniff_on_connection_fail=True,
sniffer_timeout=60)

4.4 Thread safety

The client is thread safe and can be used in a multi threaded environment. Best practice is to create a single global
instance of the client and use it throughout your application. If your application is long-running consider turning on
Sniffing to make sure the client is up to date on the cluster location.
By default we allow urllib3 to open up to 10 connections to each node, if your application calls for more paral-
lelism, use the maxsize parameter to raise the limit:
# allow up to 25 connections to each node
es = Elasticsearch(["host1", "host2"], maxsize=25)

Note: Since we use persistent connections throughout the client it means that the client doesn’t tolerate fork very
well. If your application calls for multiple processes make sure you create a fresh client after call to fork. Note that
Python’s multiprocessing module uses fork to create new processes on POSIX systems.

4.5 SSL and Authentication

You can configure the client to use SSL for connecting to your elasticsearch cluster, including certificate verification
and http auth:
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

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es = Elasticsearch(['https://user:secret@localhost:443'])

# ... or specify common parameters as kwargs

es = Elasticsearch(
['localhost', 'otherhost'],
http_auth=('user', 'secret'),
scheme="https",
port=443,
)

# SSL client authentication using client_cert and client_key

from ssl import create_default_context

context = create_default_context(cafile="path/to/cert.pem")
es = Elasticsearch(
['localhost', 'otherhost'],
http_auth=('user', 'secret'),
scheme="https",
port=443,
ssl_context=context,
)

Warning: elasticsearch-py doesn’t ship with default set of root certificates. To have working SSL cer-
tificate validation you need to either specify your own as cafile or capath or cadata or install certifi which
will be picked up automatically.

See class Urllib3HttpConnection for detailed description of the options.

4.6 Logging

elasticsearch-py uses the standard logging library from python to define two loggers: elasticsearch and
elasticsearch.trace. elasticsearch is used by the client to log standard activity, depending on the log
level. elasticsearch.trace can be used to log requests to the server in the form of curl commands using
pretty-printed json that can then be executed from command line. Because it is designed to be shared (for example to
demonstrate an issue) it also just uses localhost:9200 as the address instead of the actual address of the host. If
the trace logger has not been configured already it is set to propagate=False so it needs to be activated separately.

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Environment considerations

When using the client there are several limitations of your environment that could come into play.
When using an http load balancer you cannot use the Sniffing functionality - the cluster would supply the client with
IP addresses to directly connect to the cluster, circumventing the load balancer. Depending on your configuration this
might be something you don’t want or break completely.
In some environments (notably on Google App Engine) your http requests might be restricted so that GET requests
won’t accept body. In that case use the send_get_body_as parameter of Transport to send all bodies via post:

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

es = Elasticsearch(send_get_body_as='POST')

5.1 Compression

When using capacity constrained networks (low throughput), it may be handy to enable compression. This is especially
useful when doing bulk loads or inserting large documents. This will configure compression on the request.

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

es = Elasticsearch(hosts, http_compress = True)

5.2 Running on AWS with IAM

If you want to use this client with IAM based authentication on AWS you can use the requests-aws4auth package:

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, RequestsHttpConnection

from requests_aws4auth import AWS4Auth

host = 'YOURHOST.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com'
awsauth = AWS4Auth(YOUR_ACCESS_KEY, YOUR_SECRET_KEY, REGION, 'es')
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es = Elasticsearch(
hosts=[{'host': host, 'port': 443}],
http_auth=awsauth,
use_ssl=True,
verify_certs=True,
connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection
)
print(es.info())

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Customization

6.1 Custom serializers

By default, JSONSerializer is used to encode all outgoing requests. However, you can implement your own custom
serializer:

from elasticsearch.serializer import JSONSerializer

class SetEncoder(JSONSerializer):
def default(self, obj):
if isinstance(obj, set):
return list(obj)
if isinstance(obj, Something):
return 'CustomSomethingRepresentation'
return JSONSerializer.default(self, obj)

es = Elasticsearch(serializer=SetEncoder())

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7.1 API Documentation

All the API calls map the raw REST api as closely as possible, including the distinction between required and optional
arguments to the calls. This means that the code makes distinction between positional and keyword arguments; we,
however, recommend that people use keyword arguments for all calls for consistency and safety.

Note: for compatibility with the Python ecosystem we use from_ instead of from and doc_type instead of type
as parameter names.

7.1.1 Global options

Some parameters are added by the client itself and can be used in all API calls.

Ignore

An API call is considered successful (and will return a response) if elasticsearch returns a 2XX response. Otherwise
an instance of TransportError (or a more specific subclass) will be raised. You can see other exception and error
states in Exceptions. If you do not wish an exception to be raised you can always pass in an ignore parameter with
either a single status code that should be ignored or a list of them:

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

es = Elasticsearch()

# ignore 400 cause by IndexAlreadyExistsException when creating an index

es.indices.create(index='test-index', ignore=400)

# ignore 404 and 400

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Timeout

Global timeout can be set when constructing the client (see Connection’s timeout parameter) or on a per-request
basis using request_timeout (float value in seconds) as part of any API call, this value will get passed to the
perform_request method of the connection class:

# only wait for 1 second, regardless of the client's default

es.cluster.health(wait_for_status='yellow', request_timeout=1)

Note: Some API calls also accept a timeout parameter that is passed to Elasticsearch server. This timeout is
internal and doesn’t guarantee that the request will end in the specified time.

Response Filtering

The filter_path parameter is used to reduce the response returned by elasticsearch. For example, to only return
_id and _type, do:

es.search(index='test-index', filter_path=['hits.hits._id', 'hits.hits._type'])

It also supports the * wildcard character to match any field or part of a field’s name:

es.search(index='test-index', filter_path=['hits.hits._*'])

7.1.2 Elasticsearch

class elasticsearch.Elasticsearch(hosts=None, transport_class=<class ’elastic-

search.transport.Transport’>, **kwargs)
Elasticsearch low-level client. Provides a straightforward mapping from Python to ES REST endpoints.
The instance has attributes cat, cluster, indices, ingest, nodes, snapshot and tasks that
provide access to instances of CatClient, ClusterClient, IndicesClient, IngestClient,
NodesClient, SnapshotClient and TasksClient respectively. This is the preferred (and only sup-
ported) way to get access to those classes and their methods.
You can specify your own connection class which should be used by providing the connection_class
parameter:

# create connection to localhost using the ThriftConnection

es = Elasticsearch(connection_class=ThriftConnection)

If you want to turn on Sniffing you have several options (described in Transport):

# create connection that will automatically inspect the cluster to get

# the list of active nodes. Start with nodes running on 'esnode1' and
# 'esnode2'
es = Elasticsearch(
['esnode1', 'esnode2'],
# sniff before doing anything
sniff_on_start=True,
# refresh nodes after a node fails to respond
sniff_on_connection_fail=True,
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sniffer_timeout=60
)

Different hosts can have different parameters, use a dictionary per node to specify those:

# connect to localhost directly and another node using SSL on port 443
# and an url_prefix. Note that ``port`` needs to be an int.
es = Elasticsearch([
{'host': 'localhost'},
{'host': 'othernode', 'port': 443, 'url_prefix': 'es', 'use_ssl': True},
])

If using SSL, there are several parameters that control how we deal with certificates (see
Urllib3HttpConnection for detailed description of the options):

es = Elasticsearch(
['localhost:443', 'other_host:443'],
# turn on SSL
use_ssl=True,
# make sure we verify SSL certificates
verify_certs=True,
# provide a path to CA certs on disk
ca_certs='/path/to/CA_certs'
)

SSL client authentication is supported (see Urllib3HttpConnection for detailed description of the op-
tions):

es = Elasticsearch(
['localhost:443', 'other_host:443'],
# turn on SSL
use_ssl=True,
# make sure we verify SSL certificates
verify_certs=True,
# provide a path to CA certs on disk
ca_certs='/path/to/CA_certs',
# PEM formatted SSL client certificate
client_cert='/path/to/clientcert.pem',
# PEM formatted SSL client key
client_key='/path/to/clientkey.pem'
)

Alternatively you can use RFC-1738 formatted URLs, as long as they are not in conflict with other options:

es = Elasticsearch(
[
'http://user:secret@localhost:9200/',
'https://user:secret@other_host:443/production'
],
verify_certs=True
)

By default, JSONSerializer is used to encode all outgoing requests. However, you can implement your own
custom serializer:

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from elasticsearch.serializer import JSONSerializer

class SetEncoder(JSONSerializer):
def default(self, obj):
if isinstance(obj, set):
return list(obj)
if isinstance(obj, Something):
return 'CustomSomethingRepresentation'
return JSONSerializer.default(self, obj)

es = Elasticsearch(serializer=SetEncoder())

Parameters
• hosts – list of nodes we should connect to. Node should be a dictionary ({“host”: “lo-
calhost”, “port”: 9200}), the entire dictionary will be passed to the Connection class as
kwargs, or a string in the format of host[:port] which will be translated to a dictionary
automatically. If no value is given the Urllib3HttpConnection class defaults will be
used.
• transport_class – Transport subclass to use.
• kwargs – any additional arguments will be passed on to the Transport class and, sub-
sequently, to the Connection instances.

bulk(**kwargs)
Perform many index/delete operations in a single API call.
See the bulk() helper function for a more friendly API. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/docs-bulk.html
Parameters
• body – The operation definition and data (action-data pairs), separated by newlines
• index – Default index for items which don’t provide one
• doc_type – Default document type for items which don’t provide one
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or default list of fields to return,
can be overridden on each sub- request
• _source_exclude – Default list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field,
can be overridden on each sub-request
• _source_include – Default list of fields to extract and return from the _source field,
can be overridden on each sub-request
• fields – Default comma-separated list of fields to return in the response for updates,
can be overridden on each sub-request
• pipeline – The pipeline id to preprocess incoming documents with
• refresh – If true then refresh the effected shards to make this operation visible to search,
if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false (the
default) then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
• routing – Specific routing value
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout

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• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active

before proceeding with the bulk operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary shard only.
Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than or equal to
the total number of copies for the shard (number of replicas + 1)
clear_scroll(**kwargs)
Clear the scroll request created by specifying the scroll parameter to search. http://www.elastic.co/guide/
en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-scroll.html
Parameters
• scroll_id – A comma-separated list of scroll IDs to clear
• body – A comma-separated list of scroll IDs to clear if none was specified via the scroll_id
parameter
count(**kwargs)
Execute a query and get the number of matches for that query. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/search-count.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of indices to restrict the results
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of types to restrict the results
• body – A query to restrict the results specified with the Query DSL (optional)
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• analyze_wildcard – Specify whether wildcard and prefix queries should be analyzed
(default: false)
• analyzer – The analyzer to use for the query string
• default_operator – The default operator for query string query (AND or OR), de-
fault ‘OR’, valid choices are: ‘AND’, ‘OR’
• df – The field to use as default where no field prefix is given in the query string
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• lenient – Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a
numeric field) should be ignored
• min_score – Include only documents with a specific _score value in the result
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• q – Query in the Lucene query string syntax
• routing – Specific routing value
create(**kwargs)
Adds a typed JSON document in a specific index, making it searchable. Behind the scenes this
method calls index(. . . , op_type=’create’) http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
docs-index_.html
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• index – The name of the index

• doc_type – The type of the document
• id – Document ID
• body – The document
• parent – ID of the parent document
• pipeline – The pipeline id to preprocess incoming documents with
• refresh – If true then refresh the affected shards to make this operation visible to search,
if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false (the
default) then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
• routing – Specific routing value
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• timestamp – Explicit timestamp for the document
• ttl – Expiration time for the document
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the index operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary shard
only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than or
equal to the total number of copies for the shard (number of replicas + 1)
delete(**kwargs)
Delete a typed JSON document from a specific index based on its id. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document
• id – The document ID
• parent – ID of parent document
• refresh – If true then refresh the effected shards to make this operation visible to search,
if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false (the
default) then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
• routing – Specific routing value
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the delete operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary shard
only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than or
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delete_by_query(**kwargs)
Delete all documents matching a query. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
docs-delete-by-query.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to search; use _all or empty string to
perform the operation on all indices
• body – The search definition using the Query DSL
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to search; leave empty to per-
form the operation on all types
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• analyze_wildcard – Specify whether wildcard and prefix queries should be analyzed
(default: false)
• analyzer – The analyzer to use for the query string
• conflicts – What to do when the delete-by-query hits version conflicts?, default
‘abort’, valid choices are: ‘abort’, ‘proceed’
• default_operator – The default operator for query string query (AND or OR), de-
fault ‘OR’, valid choices are: ‘AND’, ‘OR’
• df – The field to use as default where no field prefix is given in the query string
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• from_ – Starting offset (default: 0)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• lenient – Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a
numeric field) should be ignored
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• q – Query in the Lucene query string syntax
• refresh – Should the effected indexes be refreshed?
• request_cache – Specify if request cache should be used for this request or not, de-
faults to index level setting
• requests_per_second – The throttle for this request in sub-requests per second. -1
means no throttle., default 0
• routing – A comma-separated list of specific routing values
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for
scrolled search
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• search_timeout – Explicit timeout for each search request. Defaults to no timeout.

• search_type – Search operation type, valid choices are: ‘query_then_fetch’,
‘dfs_query_then_fetch’
• size – Number of hits to return (default: 10)
• slices – The number of slices this task should be divided into. Defaults to 1 meaning
the task isn’t sliced into subtasks., default 1
• sort – A comma-separated list of <field>:<direction> pairs
• stats – Specific ‘tag’ of the request for logging and statistical purposes
• terminate_after – The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard,
upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early.
• timeout – Time each individual bulk request should wait for shards that are unavailable.,
default ‘1m’
• version – Specify whether to return document version as part of a hit
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the delete by query operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary
shard only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than
or equal to the total number of copies for the shard (number of replicas + 1)
• wait_for_completion – Should the request should block until the delete-by-query
is complete., default True
delete_script(**kwargs)
Remove a stored script from elasticsearch. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/
modules-scripting.html
Parameters id – Script ID
exists(**kwargs)
Returns a boolean indicating whether or not given document exists in Elasticsearch. http://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-get.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document (use _all to fetch the first document matching the
ID across all types)
• id – The document ID
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• parent – The ID of the parent document
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• realtime – Specify whether to perform the operation in realtime or search mode
• refresh – Refresh the shard containing the document before performing the operation
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• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control

• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
exists_source(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/docs-get.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document; use _all to fetch the first document matching the
ID across all types
• id – The document ID
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• parent – The ID of the parent document
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• realtime – Specify whether to perform the operation in realtime or search mode
• refresh – Refresh the shard containing the document before performing the operation
• routing – Specific routing value
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
explain(**kwargs)
The explain api computes a score explanation for a query and a specific document. This can give useful
feedback whether a document matches or didn’t match a specific query. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document
• id – The document ID
• body – The query definition using the Query DSL
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• analyze_wildcard – Specify whether wildcards and prefix queries in the query string
query should be analyzed (default: false)
• analyzer – The analyzer for the query string query
• default_operator – The default operator for query string query (AND or OR), de-
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• df – The default field for query string query (default: _all)

• lenient – Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a
numeric field) should be ignored
• parent – The ID of the parent document
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• q – Query in the Lucene query string syntax
• routing – Specific routing value
• stored_fields – A comma-separated list of stored fields to return in the response
field_caps(**kwargs)
The field capabilities API allows to retrieve the capabilities of fields among multiple indices. http://www.
elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-field-caps.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• body – Field json objects containing an array of field names
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• fields – A comma-separated list of field names
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
get(**kwargs)
Get a typed JSON document from the index based on its id. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/docs-get.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document (use _all to fetch the first document matching the
ID across all types)
• id – The document ID
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• parent – The ID of the parent document
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• realtime – Specify whether to perform the operation in realtime or search mode
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• stored_fields – A comma-separated list of stored fields to return in the response

• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
get_script(**kwargs)
Retrieve a script from the API. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/
modules-scripting.html
Parameters id – Script ID
get_source(**kwargs)
Get the source of a document by it’s index, type and id. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/docs-get.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document; use _all to fetch the first document matching the
ID across all types
• id – The document ID
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• parent – The ID of the parent document
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• realtime – Specify whether to perform the operation in realtime or search mode
• refresh – Refresh the shard containing the document before performing the operation
• routing – Specific routing value
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
index(**kwargs)
Adds or updates a typed JSON document in a specific index, making it searchable. http://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-index_.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document
• body – The document
• id – Document ID
• op_type – Explicit operation type, default ‘index’, valid choices are: ‘index’, ‘create’
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• refresh – If true then refresh the affected shards to make this operation visible to search,
if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false (the
default) then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
• routing – Specific routing value
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• timestamp – Explicit timestamp for the document
• ttl – Expiration time for the document
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the index operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary shard
only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than or
equal to the total number of copies for the shard (number of replicas + 1)
info(**kwargs)
Get the basic info from the current cluster. http://www.elastic.co/guide/
mget(**kwargs)
Get multiple documents based on an index, type (optional) and ids. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-multi-get.html
Parameters
• body – Document identifiers; can be either docs (containing full document information)
or ids (when index and type is provided in the URL.
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• realtime – Specify whether to perform the operation in realtime or search mode
• refresh – Refresh the shard containing the document before performing the operation
• routing – Specific routing value
• stored_fields – A comma-separated list of stored fields to return in the response
msearch(**kwargs)
Execute several search requests within the same API. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/search-multi-search.html
Parameters
• body – The request definitions (metadata-search request definition pairs), separated by
newlines
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to use as default
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• max_concurrent_searches – Controls the maximum number of concurrent

searches the multi search api will execute
• pre_filter_shard_size – A threshold that enforces a pre-filter roundtrip to pre-
filter search shards based on query rewriting if the number of shards the search request
expands to exceeds the threshold. This filter roundtrip can limit the number of shards sig-
nificantly if for instance a shard can not match any documents based on it’s rewrite method
ie. if date filters are mandatory to match but the shard bounds and the query are disjoint.,
default 128
• search_type – Search operation type, valid choices are: ‘query_then_fetch’,
‘query_and_fetch’, ‘dfs_query_then_fetch’, ‘dfs_query_and_fetch’
• typed_keys – Specify whether aggregation and suggester names should be prefixed by
their respective types in the response
msearch_template(**kwargs)
The /_search/template endpoint allows to use the mustache language to pre render search requests, before
they are executed and fill existing templates with template parameters. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html
Parameters
• body – The request definitions (metadata-search request definition pairs), separated by
newlines
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to use as default
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to use as default
• max_concurrent_searches – Controls the maximum number of concurrent
searches the multi search api will execute
• search_type – Search operation type, valid choices are: ‘query_then_fetch’,
‘query_and_fetch’, ‘dfs_query_then_fetch’, ‘dfs_query_and_fetch’
• typed_keys – Specify whether aggregation and suggester names should be prefixed by
their respective types in the response
mtermvectors(**kwargs)
Multi termvectors API allows to get multiple termvectors based on an index, type and id. http://www.
elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-multi-termvectors.html
Parameters
• index – The index in which the document resides.
• doc_type – The type of the document.
• body – Define ids, documents, parameters or a list of parameters per document here. You
must at least provide a list of document ids. See documentation.
• field_statistics – Specifies if document count, sum of document frequencies and
sum of total term frequencies should be returned. Applies to all returned documents unless
otherwise specified in body “params” or “docs”., default True
• fields – A comma-separated list of fields to return. Applies to all returned documents
unless otherwise specified in body “params” or “docs”.
• ids – A comma-separated list of documents ids. You must define ids as parameter or set
“ids” or “docs” in the request body
• offsets – Specifies if term offsets should be returned. Applies to all returned documents
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• parent – Parent id of documents. Applies to all returned documents unless otherwise

specified in body “params” or “docs”.
• payloads – Specifies if term payloads should be returned. Applies to all returned docu-
ments unless otherwise specified in body “params” or “docs”., default True
• positions – Specifies if term positions should be returned. Applies to all returned
documents unless otherwise specified in body “params” or “docs”., default True
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random) .Applies to all returned documents unless otherwise specified in body “params”
or “docs”.
• realtime – Specifies if requests are real-time as opposed to near- real-time (default:
true).
• routing – Specific routing value. Applies to all returned documents unless otherwise
specified in body “params” or “docs”.
• term_statistics – Specifies if total term frequency and document frequency should
be returned. Applies to all returned documents unless otherwise specified in body
“params” or “docs”., default False
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
ping(**kwargs)
Returns True if the cluster is up, False otherwise. http://www.elastic.co/guide/
put_script(**kwargs)
Create a script in given language with specified ID. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/modules-scripting.html
Parameters
• id – Script ID
• body – The document
reindex(**kwargs)
Reindex all documents from one index to another. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/docs-reindex.html
Parameters
• body – The search definition using the Query DSL and the prototype for the index request.
• refresh – Should the effected indexes be refreshed?
• requests_per_second – The throttle to set on this request in sub- requests per sec-
ond. -1 means no throttle., default 0
• slices – The number of slices this task should be divided into. Defaults to 1 meaning
the task isn’t sliced into subtasks., default 1
• timeout – Time each individual bulk request should wait for shards that are unavailable.,
default ‘1m’
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the reindex operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary shard
only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than or
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• wait_for_completion – Should the request should block until the reindex is com-
plete., default True
reindex_rethrottle(**kwargs)
Change the value of requests_per_second of a running reindex task. https://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html
Parameters
• task_id – The task id to rethrottle
• requests_per_second – The throttle to set on this request in floating sub-requests
per second. -1 means set no throttle.
render_search_template(**kwargs)
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html
Parameters
• id – The id of the stored search template
• body – The search definition template and its params
scroll(**kwargs)
Scroll a search request created by specifying the scroll parameter. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-scroll.html
Parameters
• scroll_id – The scroll ID
• body – The scroll ID if not passed by URL or query parameter.
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for
scrolled search
search(**kwargs)
Execute a search query and get back search hits that match the query. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/search-search.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to search; use _all or empty string to
perform the operation on all indices
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to search; leave empty to per-
form the operation on all types
• body – The search definition using the Query DSL
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• allow_partial_search_results – Set to false to return an overall failure if the
request would produce partial results. Defaults to True, which will allow partial results in
the case of timeouts or partial failures
• analyze_wildcard – Specify whether wildcard and prefix queries should be analyzed
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• analyzer – The analyzer to use for the query string

• batched_reduce_size – The number of shard results that should be reduced at once
on the coordinating node. This value should be used as a protection mechanism to reduce
the memory overhead per search request if the potential number of shards in the request
can be large., default 512
• default_operator – The default operator for query string query (AND or OR), de-
fault ‘OR’, valid choices are: ‘AND’, ‘OR’
• df – The field to use as default where no field prefix is given in the query string
• docvalue_fields – A comma-separated list of fields to return as the docvalue repre-
sentation of a field for each hit
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• explain – Specify whether to return detailed information about score computation as
part of a hit
• from_ – Starting offset (default: 0)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• lenient – Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a
numeric field) should be ignored
• max_concurrent_shard_requests – The number of concurrent shard requests
this search executes concurrently. This value should be used to limit the impact of the
search on the cluster in order to limit the number of concurrent shard requests, default
‘The default grows with the number of nodes in the cluster but is at most 256.’
• pre_filter_shard_size – A threshold that enforces a pre-filter roundtrip to pre-
filter search shards based on query rewriting if the number of shards the search request
expands to exceeds the threshold. This filter roundtrip can limit the number of shards sig-
nificantly if for instance a shard can not match any documents based on it’s rewrite method
ie. if date filters are mandatory to match but the shard bounds and the query are disjoint.,
default 128
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• q – Query in the Lucene query string syntax
• request_cache – Specify if request cache should be used for this request or not, de-
faults to index level setting
• routing – A comma-separated list of specific routing values
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for
scrolled search
• search_type – Search operation type, valid choices are: ‘query_then_fetch’,
‘dfs_query_then_fetch’
• size – Number of hits to return (default: 10)
• sort – A comma-separated list of <field>:<direction> pairs
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• suggest_field – Specify which field to use for suggestions

• suggest_mode – Specify suggest mode, default ‘missing’, valid choices are: ‘missing’,
‘popular’, ‘always’
• suggest_size – How many suggestions to return in response
• suggest_text – The source text for which the suggestions should be returned
• terminate_after – The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard,
upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early.
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• track_scores – Whether to calculate and return scores even if they are not used for
sorting
• track_total_hits – Indicate if the number of documents that match the query should
be tracked
• typed_keys – Specify whether aggregation and suggester names should be prefixed by
their respective types in the response
• version – Specify whether to return document version as part of a hit
search_shards(**kwargs)
The search shards api returns the indices and shards that a search request would be executed against.
This can give useful feedback for working out issues or planning optimizations with routing and shard
preferences. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-shards.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to search; use _all or empty string to
perform the operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• routing – Specific routing value
search_template(**kwargs)
A query that accepts a query template and a map of key/value pairs to fill in template parameters. http:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to search; use _all or empty string to
perform the operation on all indices
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to search; leave empty to per-
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• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into

no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• explain – Specify whether to return detailed information about score computation as
part of a hit
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• profile – Specify whether to profile the query execution
• routing – A comma-separated list of specific routing values
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for
scrolled search
• search_type – Search operation type, valid choices are: ‘query_then_fetch’,
‘query_and_fetch’, ‘dfs_query_then_fetch’, ‘dfs_query_and_fetch’
• typed_keys – Specify whether aggregation and suggester names should be prefixed by
their respective types in the response
termvectors(**kwargs)
Returns information and statistics on terms in the fields of a particular document. The document could
be stored in the index or artificially provided by the user (Added in 1.4). Note that for documents stored
in the index, this is a near realtime API as the term vectors are not available until the next refresh. http:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-termvectors.html
Parameters
• index – The index in which the document resides.
• doc_type – The type of the document.
• id – The id of the document, when not specified a doc param should be supplied.
• body – Define parameters and or supply a document to get termvectors for. See docu-
mentation.
• field_statistics – Specifies if document count, sum of document frequencies and
sum of total term frequencies should be returned., default True
• fields – A comma-separated list of fields to return.
• offsets – Specifies if term offsets should be returned., default True
• parent – Parent id of documents.
• payloads – Specifies if term payloads should be returned., default True
• positions – Specifies if term positions should be returned., default True
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random).
• realtime – Specifies if request is real-time as opposed to near- real-time (default: true).
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• term_statistics – Specifies if total term frequency and document frequency should

be returned., default False
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘external’, ‘exter-
nal_gte’, ‘force’
update(**kwargs)
Update a document based on a script or partial data provided. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/docs-update.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• doc_type – The type of the document
• id – Document ID
• body – The request definition using either script or partial doc
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• fields – A comma-separated list of fields to return in the response
• lang – The script language (default: painless)
• parent – ID of the parent document. Is is only used for routing and when for the upsert
request
• refresh – If true then refresh the effected shards to make this operation visible to search,
if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false (the
default) then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
• retry_on_conflict – Specify how many times should the operation be retried when
a conflict occurs (default: 0)
• routing – Specific routing value
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• timestamp – Explicit timestamp for the document
• ttl – Expiration time for the document
• version – Explicit version number for concurrency control
• version_type – Specific version type, valid choices are: ‘internal’, ‘force’
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the update operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary shard
only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than or
equal to the total number of copies for the shard (number of replicas + 1)
update_by_query(**kwargs)
Perform an update on all documents matching a query. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/docs-update-by-query.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to search; use _all or empty string to
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• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to search; leave empty to per-

form the operation on all types
• body – The search definition using the Query DSL
• _source – True or false to return the _source field or not, or a list of fields to return
• _source_exclude – A list of fields to exclude from the returned _source field
• _source_include – A list of fields to extract and return from the _source field
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• analyze_wildcard – Specify whether wildcard and prefix queries should be analyzed
(default: false)
• analyzer – The analyzer to use for the query string
• conflicts – What to do when the update by query hits version conflicts?, default
‘abort’, valid choices are: ‘abort’, ‘proceed’
• default_operator – The default operator for query string query (AND or OR), de-
fault ‘OR’, valid choices are: ‘AND’, ‘OR’
• df – The field to use as default where no field prefix is given in the query string
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• from_ – Starting offset (default: 0)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• lenient – Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a
numeric field) should be ignored
• pipeline – Ingest pipeline to set on index requests made by this action. (default: none)
• preference – Specify the node or shard the operation should be performed on (default:
random)
• q – Query in the Lucene query string syntax
• refresh – Should the effected indexes be refreshed?
• request_cache – Specify if request cache should be used for this request or not, de-
faults to index level setting
• requests_per_second – The throttle to set on this request in sub- requests per sec-
ond. -1 means no throttle., default 0
• routing – A comma-separated list of specific routing values
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for
scrolled search
• scroll_size – Size on the scroll request powering the update_by_query
• search_timeout – Explicit timeout for each search request. Defaults to no timeout.
• search_type – Search operation type, valid choices are: ‘query_then_fetch’,
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• slices – The number of slices this task should be divided into. Defaults to 1 meaning
the task isn’t sliced into subtasks., default 1
• sort – A comma-separated list of <field>:<direction> pairs
• stats – Specific ‘tag’ of the request for logging and statistical purposes
• terminate_after – The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard,
upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early.
• timeout – Time each individual bulk request should wait for shards that are unavailable.,
default ‘1m’
• version – Specify whether to return document version as part of a hit
• version_type – Should the document increment the version number (internal) on hit
or not (reindex)
• wait_for_active_shards – Sets the number of shard copies that must be active
before proceeding with the update by query operation. Defaults to 1, meaning the primary
shard only. Set to all for all shard copies, otherwise set to any non-negative value less than
or equal to the total number of copies for the shard (number of replicas + 1)
• wait_for_completion – Should the request should block until the update by query
operation is complete., default True

7.1.3 Indices

class elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient(client)

analyze(**kwargs)
Perform the analysis process on a text and return the tokens breakdown of the text. http://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-analyze.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index to scope the operation
• body – Define analyzer/tokenizer parameters and the text on which the analysis should
be performed
• format – Format of the output, default ‘detailed’, valid choices are: ‘detailed’, ‘text’
• prefer_local – With true, specify that a local shard should be used if available, with
false, use a random shard (default: true)
clear_cache(**kwargs)
Clear either all caches or specific cached associated with one ore more indices. http://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-clearcache.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index name to limit the operation
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
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• fields – A comma-separated list of fields to clear when using the field_data parameter
(default: all)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• query – Clear query caches
• recycler – Clear the recycler cache
• request – Clear request cache
• request_cache – Clear request cache
close(**kwargs)
Close an index to remove it’s overhead from the cluster. Closed index is blocked for read/write operations.
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-open-close.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
create(**kwargs)
Create an index in Elasticsearch. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
indices-create-index.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• body – The configuration for the index (settings and mappings)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• wait_for_active_shards – Set the number of active shards to wait for before the
operation returns.
delete(**kwargs)
Delete an index in Elasticsearch http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
indices-delete-index.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of indices to delete; use _all or * string to delete all
indices
• allow_no_indices – Ignore if a wildcard expression resolves to no concrete indices
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• expand_wildcards – Whether wildcard expressions should get expanded to open or

closed indices (default: open), default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’,
‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Ignore unavailable indexes (default: false)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
delete_alias(**kwargs)
Delete specific alias. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names (supports wildcards); use _all for all
indices
• name – A comma-separated list of aliases to delete (supports wildcards); use _all to delete
all aliases for the specified indices.
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit timeout for the operation
delete_template(**kwargs)
Delete an index template by its name. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
indices-templates.html
Parameters
• name – The name of the template
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
exists(**kwargs)
Return a boolean indicating whether given index exists. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/indices-exists.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names
• allow_no_indices – Ignore if a wildcard expression resolves to no concrete indices
(default: false)
• expand_wildcards – Whether wildcard expressions should get expanded to open or
closed indices (default: open), default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’,
‘all’
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• ignore_unavailable – Ignore unavailable indexes (default: false)
• include_defaults – Whether to return all default setting for each of the indices.,
default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
exists_alias(**kwargs)
Return a boolean indicating whether given alias exists. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
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Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to filter aliases
• name – A comma-separated list of alias names to return
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘all’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
exists_template(**kwargs)
Return a boolean indicating whether given template exists. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/indices-templates.html
Parameters
• name – The comma separated names of the index templates
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
exists_type(**kwargs)
Check if a type/types exists in an index/indices. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/indices-types-exists.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all to check the types across all
indices
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to check
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
flush(**kwargs)
Explicitly flush one or more indices. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
indices-flush.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string for all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
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• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that

are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• force – Whether a flush should be forced even if it is not necessarily needed ie. if no
changes will be committed to the index. This is useful if transaction log IDs should be
incremented even if no uncommitted changes are present. (This setting can be considered
as internal)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• wait_if_ongoing – If set to true the flush operation will block until the flush can be
executed if another flush operation is already executing. The default is true. If set to false
the flush will be skipped iff if another flush operation is already running.
flush_synced(**kwargs)
Perform a normal flush, then add a generated unique marker (sync_id) to all shards. http://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-synced-flush.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string for all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
forcemerge(**kwargs)
The force merge API allows to force merging of one or more indices through an API. The merge relates
to the number of segments a Lucene index holds within each shard. The force merge operation allows to
reduce the number of segments by merging them.
This call will block until the merge is complete. If the http connection is lost, the request will continue
in the background, and any new requests will block until the previous force merge is complete. http:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-forcemerge.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• flush – Specify whether the index should be flushed after performing the operation
(default: true)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• max_num_segments – The number of segments the index should be merged into (de-
fault: dynamic)
• only_expunge_deletes – Specify whether the operation should only expunge
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• operation_threading – TODO: ?
get(**kwargs)
The get index API allows to retrieve information about one or more indexes. http://www.elastic.co/guide/
en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-get-index.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names
• allow_no_indices – Ignore if a wildcard expression resolves to no concrete indices
(default: false)
• expand_wildcards – Whether wildcard expressions should get expanded to open or
closed indices (default: open), default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’,
‘all’
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• ignore_unavailable – Ignore unavailable indexes (default: false)
• include_defaults – Whether to return all default setting for each of the indices.,
default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
get_alias(**kwargs)
Retrieve a specified alias. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.
html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to filter aliases
• name – A comma-separated list of alias names to return
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘all’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
get_field_mapping(**kwargs)
Retrieve mapping definition of a specific field. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/indices-get-field-mapping.html
Parameters
• fields – A comma-separated list of fields
• index – A comma-separated list of index names
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
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• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when

unavailable (missing or closed)
• include_defaults – Whether the default mapping values should be returned as well
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
get_mapping(**kwargs)
Retrieve mapping definition of index or index/type. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/indices-get-mapping.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
get_settings(**kwargs)
Retrieve settings for one or more (or all) indices. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/indices-get-settings.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• name – The name of the settings that should be included
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default [‘open’, ‘closed’], valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’,
‘none’, ‘all’
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• include_defaults – Whether to return all default setting for each of the indices.,
default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
get_template(**kwargs)
Retrieve an index template by its name. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
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• name – The name of the template

• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
get_upgrade(**kwargs)
Monitor how much of one or more index is upgraded. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/indices-upgrade.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
open(**kwargs)
Open a closed index to make it available for search. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/indices-open-close.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘closed’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
put_alias(**kwargs)
Create an alias for a specific index/indices. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
indices-aliases.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names the alias should point to (supports wild-
cards); use _all to perform the operation on all indices.
• name – The name of the alias to be created or updated
• body – The settings for the alias, such as routing or filter
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put_mapping(**kwargs)
Register specific mapping definition for a specific type. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/indices-put-mapping.html
Parameters
• doc_type – The name of the document type
• body – The mapping definition
• index – A comma-separated list of index names the mapping should be added to (sup-
ports wildcards); use _all or omit to add the mapping on all indices.
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
put_settings(**kwargs)
Change specific index level settings in real time. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/indices-update-settings.html
Parameters
• body – The index settings to be updated
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• preserve_existing – Whether to update existing settings. If set to true existing
settings on an index remain unchanged, the default is false
put_template(**kwargs)
Create an index template that will automatically be applied to new indices created. http://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html
Parameters
• name – The name of the template
• body – The template definition
• create – Whether the index template should only be added if new or can also replace an
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• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)

• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• order – The order for this template when merging multiple matching ones (higher num-
bers are merged later, overriding the lower numbers)
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
recovery(**kwargs)
The indices recovery API provides insight into on-going shard recoveries. Recovery status may be re-
ported for specific indices, or cluster-wide. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
indices-recovery.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• active_only – Display only those recoveries that are currently on- going, default False
• detailed – Whether to display detailed information about shard recovery, default False
refresh(**kwargs)
Explicitly refresh one or more index, making all operations performed since the last refresh available for
search. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-refresh.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
rollover(**kwargs)
The rollover index API rolls an alias over to a new index when the existing index is considered to be too
large or too old.
The API accepts a single alias name and a list of conditions. The alias must point to a single index only. If
the index satisfies the specified conditions then a new index is created and the alias is switched to point to
the new alias. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-rollover-index.html
Parameters
• alias – The name of the alias to rollover
• new_index – The name of the rollover index
• body – The conditions that needs to be met for executing rollover
• dry_run – If set to true the rollover action will only be validated but not actually per-
formed even if a condition matches. The default is false
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• wait_for_active_shards – Set the number of active shards to wait for on the newly
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segments(**kwargs)
Provide low level segments information that a Lucene index (shard level) is built with. http://www.elastic.
co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-segments.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• operation_threading – TODO: ?
• verbose – Includes detailed memory usage by Lucene., default False
shard_stores(**kwargs)
Provides store information for shard copies of indices. Store information reports on which nodes shard
copies exist, the shard copy version, indicating how recent they are, and any exceptions encountered
while opening the shard index or from earlier engine failure. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/indices-shards-stores.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• operation_threading – TODO: ?
• status – A comma-separated list of statuses used to filter on shards to get store infor-
mation for, valid choices are: ‘green’, ‘yellow’, ‘red’, ‘all’
shrink(**kwargs)
The shrink index API allows you to shrink an existing index into a new index with fewer primary shards.
The number of primary shards in the target index must be a factor of the shards in the source index. For
example an index with 8 primary shards can be shrunk into 4, 2 or 1 primary shards or an index with 15
primary shards can be shrunk into 5, 3 or 1. If the number of shards in the index is a prime number it can
only be shrunk into a single primary shard. Before shrinking, a (primary or replica) copy of every shard
in the index must be present on the same node. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/indices-shrink-index.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the source index to shrink
• target – The name of the target index to shrink into
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• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master

• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• wait_for_active_shards – Set the number of active shards to wait for on the
shrunken index before the operation returns.
stats(**kwargs)
Retrieve statistics on different operations happening on an index. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-stats.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• metric – Limit the information returned the specific metrics.
• completion_fields – A comma-separated list of fields for fielddata and suggest in-
dex metric (supports wildcards)
• fielddata_fields – A comma-separated list of fields for fielddata index metric (sup-
ports wildcards)
• fields – A comma-separated list of fields for fielddata and completion index metric
(supports wildcards)
• groups – A comma-separated list of search groups for search index metric
• include_segment_file_sizes – Whether to report the aggregated disk usage of
each one of the Lucene index files (only applies if segment stats are requested), default
False
• level – Return stats aggregated at cluster, index or shard level, default ‘indices’, valid
choices are: ‘cluster’, ‘indices’, ‘shards’
• types – A comma-separated list of document types for the indexing index metric
update_aliases(**kwargs)
Update specified aliases. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.
html
Parameters
• body – The definition of actions to perform
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
• timeout – Request timeout
upgrade(**kwargs)
Upgrade one or more indices to the latest format through an API. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-upgrade.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
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• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when

unavailable (missing or closed)
• only_ancient_segments – If true, only ancient (an older Lucene major release)
segments will be upgraded
• wait_for_completion – Specify whether the request should block until the all seg-
ments are upgraded (default: false)
validate_query(**kwargs)
Validate a potentially expensive query without executing it. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/search-validate.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to restrict the operation; use _all or
empty string to perform the operation on all indices
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to restrict the operation; leave
empty to perform the operation on all types
• body – The query definition specified with the Query DSL
• all_shards – Execute validation on all shards instead of one random shard per index
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• analyze_wildcard – Specify whether wildcard and prefix queries should be analyzed
(default: false)
• analyzer – The analyzer to use for the query string
• default_operator – The default operator for query string query (AND or OR), de-
fault ‘OR’, valid choices are: ‘AND’, ‘OR’
• df – The field to use as default where no field prefix is given in the query string
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• explain – Return detailed information about the error
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• lenient – Specify whether format-based query failures (such as providing text to a
numeric field) should be ignored
• operation_threading – TODO: ?
• q – Query in the Lucene query string syntax
• rewrite – Provide a more detailed explanation showing the actual Lucene query that
will be executed.

7.1.4 Ingest

class elasticsearch.client.IngestClient(client)

delete_pipeline(**kwargs)
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Parameters
• id – Pipeline ID
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
get_pipeline(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/ingest.html
Parameters
• id – Comma separated list of pipeline ids. Wildcards supported
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
put_pipeline(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/ingest.html
Parameters
• id – Pipeline ID
• body – The ingest definition
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
simulate(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/ingest.html
Parameters
• body – The simulate definition
• id – Pipeline ID
• verbose – Verbose mode. Display data output for each processor in executed pipeline,
default False

7.1.5 Cluster

class elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient(client)

allocation_explain(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-allocation-explain.html
Parameters
• body – The index, shard, and primary flag to explain. Empty means ‘explain the first
unassigned shard’
• include_disk_info – Return information about disk usage and shard sizes (default:
false)
• include_yes_decisions – Return ‘YES’ decisions in explanation (default: false)
get_settings(**kwargs)
Get cluster settings. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
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• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)

• include_defaults – Whether to return all default clusters setting., default False
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
health(**kwargs)
Get a very simple status on the health of the cluster. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/cluster-health.html
Parameters
• index – Limit the information returned to a specific index
• level – Specify the level of detail for returned information, default ‘cluster’, valid
choices are: ‘cluster’, ‘indices’, ‘shards’
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• wait_for_active_shards – Wait until the specified number of shards is active
• wait_for_events – Wait until all currently queued events with the given priority are
processed, valid choices are: ‘immediate’, ‘urgent’, ‘high’, ‘normal’, ‘low’, ‘languid’
• wait_for_no_relocating_shards – Whether to wait until there are no relocating
shards in the cluster
• wait_for_nodes – Wait until the specified number of nodes is available
• wait_for_status – Wait until cluster is in a specific state, default None, valid choices
are: ‘green’, ‘yellow’, ‘red’
pending_tasks(**kwargs)
The pending cluster tasks API returns a list of any cluster-level changes (e.g. create index, update mapping,
allocate or fail shard) which have not yet been executed. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/cluster-pending.html
Parameters
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
put_settings(**kwargs)
Update cluster wide specific settings. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
cluster-update-settings.html
Parameters
• body – The settings to be updated. Can be either transient or persistent (survives cluster
restart).
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
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reroute(**kwargs)
Explicitly execute a cluster reroute allocation command including specific commands. http://www.elastic.
co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-reroute.html
Parameters
• body – The definition of commands to perform (move, cancel, allocate)
• dry_run – Simulate the operation only and return the resulting state
• explain – Return an explanation of why the commands can or cannot be executed
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• metric – Limit the information returned to the specified metrics. Defaults to all but
metadata, valid choices are: ‘_all’, ‘blocks’, ‘metadata’, ‘nodes’, ‘routing_table’, ‘mas-
ter_node’, ‘version’
• retry_failed – Retries allocation of shards that are blocked due to too many subse-
quent allocation failures
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
state(**kwargs)
Get a comprehensive state information of the whole cluster. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
reference/current/cluster-state.html
Parameters
• metric – Limit the information returned to the specified metrics
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
unavailable (missing or closed)
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Specify timeout for connection to master
stats(**kwargs)
The Cluster Stats API allows to retrieve statistics from a cluster wide perspective. The API returns basic
index metrics and information about the current nodes that form the cluster. http://www.elastic.co/guide/
en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-stats.html
Parameters
• node_id – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned informa-
tion; use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to
get information from all nodes
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7.1.6 Nodes

class elasticsearch.client.NodesClient(client)

hot_threads(**kwargs)
An API allowing to get the current hot threads on each node in the cluster. https://www.elastic.co/guide/
en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-hot-threads.html
Parameters
• node_id – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned informa-
tion; use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to
get information from all nodes
• type – The type to sample (default: cpu), valid choices are: ‘cpu’, ‘wait’, ‘block’
• ignore_idle_threads – Don’t show threads that are in known-idle places, such as
waiting on a socket select or pulling from an empty task queue (default: true)
• interval – The interval for the second sampling of threads
• snapshots – Number of samples of thread stacktrace (default: 10)
• threads – Specify the number of threads to provide information for (default: 3)
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
info(**kwargs)
The cluster nodes info API allows to retrieve one or more (or all) of the cluster nodes information. https:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-info.html
Parameters
• node_id – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned informa-
tion; use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to
get information from all nodes
• metric – A comma-separated list of metrics you wish returned. Leave empty to return
all.
• flat_settings – Return settings in flat format (default: false)
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
stats(**kwargs)
The cluster nodes stats API allows to retrieve one or more (or all) of the cluster nodes statistics. https:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-stats.html
Parameters
• node_id – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned informa-
tion; use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to
get information from all nodes
• metric – Limit the information returned to the specified metrics
• index_metric – Limit the information returned for indices metric to the specific index
metrics. Isn’t used if indices (or all) metric isn’t specified.
• completion_fields – A comma-separated list of fields for fielddata and suggest in-
dex metric (supports wildcards)
• fielddata_fields – A comma-separated list of fields for fielddata index metric (sup-
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• fields – A comma-separated list of fields for fielddata and completion index metric
(supports wildcards)
• groups – A comma-separated list of search groups for search index metric
• include_segment_file_sizes – Whether to report the aggregated disk usage of
each one of the Lucene index files (only applies if segment stats are requested), default
False
• level – Return indices stats aggregated at index, node or shard level, default ‘node’,
valid choices are: ‘indices’, ‘node’, ‘shards’
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• types – A comma-separated list of document types for the indexing index metric
usage(**kwargs)
The cluster nodes usage API allows to retrieve information on the usage of features for each node. http:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/cluster-nodes-usage.html
Parameters
• node_id – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned informa-
tion; use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to
get information from all nodes
• metric – Limit the information returned to the specified metrics
• human – Whether to return time and byte values in human-readable format., default False
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout

7.1.7 Cat

class elasticsearch.client.CatClient(client)

aliases(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-alias.html
Parameters
• name – A comma-separated list of alias names to return
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
allocation(**kwargs)
Allocation provides a snapshot of how shards have located around the cluster and the state of disk usage.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-allocation.html
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• node_id – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned informa-
tion
• bytes – The unit in which to display byte values, valid choices are: ‘b’, ‘k’, ‘kb’, ‘m’,
‘mb’, ‘g’, ‘gb’, ‘t’, ‘tb’, ‘p’, ‘pb’
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
count(**kwargs)
Count provides quick access to the document count of the entire cluster, or individual indices. https:
//www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-count.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to limit the returned information
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
fielddata(**kwargs)
Shows information about currently loaded fielddata on a per-node basis. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-fielddata.html
Parameters
• fields – A comma-separated list of fields to return the fielddata size
• bytes – The unit in which to display byte values, valid choices are: ‘b’, ‘k’, ‘kb’, ‘m’,
‘mb’, ‘g’, ‘gb’, ‘t’, ‘tb’, ‘p’, ‘pb’
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
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• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False

health(**kwargs)
health is a terse, one-line representation of the same information from health() API https://www.elastic.
co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-health.html
Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• ts – Set to false to disable timestamping, default True
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
help(**kwargs)
A simple help for the cat api. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat.html
Parameters
• help – Return help information, default False
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
indices(**kwargs)
The indices command provides a cross-section of each index. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/
elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-indices.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to limit the returned information
• bytes – The unit in which to display byte values, valid choices are: ‘b’, ‘k’, ‘m’, ‘g’
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• health – A health status (“green”, “yellow”, or “red” to filter only indices matching the
specified health status, default None, valid choices are: ‘green’, ‘yellow’, ‘red’
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• pri – Set to true to return stats only for primary shards, default False
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
master(**kwargs)
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Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
nodeattrs(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-nodeattrs.html
Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
nodes(**kwargs)
The nodes command shows the cluster topology. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/cat-nodes.html
Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• full_id – Return the full node ID instead of the shortened version (default: false)
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
pending_tasks(**kwargs)
pending_tasks provides the same information as the pending_tasks() API in a convenient tabular
format. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-pending-tasks.html
Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
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• help – Return help information, default False

• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
plugins(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-plugins.html
Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
recovery(**kwargs)
recovery is a view of shard replication. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
cat-recovery.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to limit the returned information
• bytes – The unit in which to display byte values, valid choices are: ‘b’, ‘k’, ‘kb’, ‘m’,
‘mb’, ‘g’, ‘gb’, ‘t’, ‘tb’, ‘p’, ‘pb’
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
repositories(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-repositories.html
Parameters
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node, default
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• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
segments(**kwargs)
The segments command is the detailed view of Lucene segments per index. https://www.elastic.co/guide/
en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-segments.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to limit the returned information
• bytes – The unit in which to display byte values, valid choices are: ‘b’, ‘k’, ‘kb’, ‘m’,
‘mb’, ‘g’, ‘gb’, ‘t’, ‘tb’, ‘p’, ‘pb’
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
shards(**kwargs)
The shards command is the detailed view of what nodes contain which shards. https://www.elastic.co/
guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-shards.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to limit the returned information
• bytes – The unit in which to display byte values, valid choices are: ‘b’, ‘k’, ‘kb’, ‘m’,
‘mb’, ‘g’, ‘gb’, ‘t’, ‘tb’, ‘p’, ‘pb’
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
snapshots(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – Name of repository from which to fetch the snapshot information
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• ignore_unavailable – Set to true to ignore unavailable snapshots, default False
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
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• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False

tasks(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tasks.html
Parameters
• actions – A comma-separated list of actions that should be returned. Leave empty to
return all.
• detailed – Return detailed task information (default: false)
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• nodes – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned information;
use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to get
information from all nodes
• parent_task_id – Return tasks with specified parent task id. Set to -1 to return all.
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
templates(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-templates.html
Parameters
• name – A pattern that returned template names must match
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False
thread_pool(**kwargs)
Get information about thread pools. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
cat-thread-pool.html
Parameters
• thread_pool_patterns – A comma-separated list of regular-expressions to filter the
thread pools in the output
• format – a short version of the Accept header, e.g. json, yaml
• h – Comma-separated list of column names to display
• help – Return help information, default False
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• s – Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases to sort by
• size – The multiplier in which to display values, valid choices are: ‘’, ‘k’, ‘m’, ‘g’, ‘t’,
‘p’
• v – Verbose mode. Display column headers, default False

7.1.8 Snapshot

class elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient(client)

create(**kwargs)
Create a snapshot in repository http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• snapshot – A snapshot name
• body – The snapshot definition
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• wait_for_completion – Should this request wait until the operation has completed
before returning, default False
create_repository(**kwargs)
Registers a shared file system repository. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• body – The repository definition
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
• verify – Whether to verify the repository after creation
delete(**kwargs)
Deletes a snapshot from a repository. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• snapshot – A snapshot name
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
delete_repository(**kwargs)
Removes a shared file system repository. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
modules-snapshots.html
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• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node

• timeout – Explicit operation timeout
get(**kwargs)
Retrieve information about a snapshot. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• snapshot – A comma-separated list of snapshot names
• ignore_unavailable – Whether to ignore unavailable snapshots, defaults to false
which means a NotFoundError snapshot_missing_exception is thrown
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• verbose – Whether to show verbose snapshot info or only show the basic info found in
the repository index blob
get_repository(**kwargs)
Return information about registered repositories. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/
current/modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A comma-separated list of repository names
• local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (default:
false)
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
restore(**kwargs)
Restore a snapshot. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.
html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• snapshot – A snapshot name
• body – Details of what to restore
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• wait_for_completion – Should this request wait until the operation has completed
before returning, default False
status(**kwargs)
Return information about all currently running snapshots. By specifying a repository name, it’s possible to
limit the results to a particular repository. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• snapshot – A comma-separated list of snapshot names
• ignore_unavailable – Whether to ignore unavailable snapshots, defaults to false
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verify_repository(**kwargs)
Returns a list of nodes where repository was successfully verified or an error message if verification process
failed. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html
Parameters
• repository – A repository name
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
• timeout – Explicit operation timeout

7.1.9 Tasks

class elasticsearch.client.TasksClient(client)

cancel(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tasks.html
Parameters
• task_id – Cancel the task with specified task id (node_id:task_number)
• actions – A comma-separated list of actions that should be cancelled. Leave empty to
cancel all.
• nodes – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned information;
use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to get
information from all nodes
• parent_task_id – Cancel tasks with specified parent task id (node_id:task_number).
Set to -1 to cancel all.
get(**kwargs)
Retrieve information for a particular task. http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
tasks.html
Parameters
• task_id – Return the task with specified id (node_id:task_number)
• wait_for_completion – Wait for the matching tasks to complete (default: false)
list(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tasks.html
Parameters
• actions – A comma-separated list of actions that should be returned. Leave empty to
return all.
• detailed – Return detailed task information (default: false)
• group_by – Group tasks by nodes or parent/child relationships, default ‘nodes’, valid
choices are: ‘nodes’, ‘parents’
• nodes – A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned information;
use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, leave empty to get
information from all nodes
• parent_task_id – Return tasks with specified parent task id (node_id:task_number).
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• wait_for_completion – Wait for the matching tasks to complete (default: false)

7.2 X-Pack APIs

X-Pack is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities into
one easy-to-install package. While the X-Pack components are designed to work together seamlessly, you can easily
enable or disable the features you want to use.

7.2.1 Info

X-Pack info provides general info about the installed X-Pack.

class elasticsearch.client.xpack.XPackClient(*args, **kwargs)

info(**kwargs)
Retrieve information about xpack, including build number/timestamp and license status https://www.
elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/info-api.html
Parameters
• categories – Comma-separated list of info categories. Can be any of: build, license,
features
• human – Presents additional info for humans (feature descriptions and X-Pack tagline)
usage(**kwargs)
Retrieve information about xpack features usage
Parameters master_timeout – Specify timeout for watch write operation

7.2.2 Graph Explore

X-Pack Graph Explore enables you to extract and summarize information about the documents and terms in your
Elasticsearch index.
class elasticsearch.client.xpack.graph.GraphClient(client)

explore(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/graph-explore-api.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names to search; use _all or empty string to
perform the operation on all indices
• doc_type – A comma-separated list of document types to search; leave empty to per-
form the operation on all types
• body – Graph Query DSL
• routing – Specific routing value
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7.2.3 Licensing API

Licensing API can be used to manage your licences.

class elasticsearch.client.xpack.license.LicenseClient(client)

delete(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-management.html
get(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-management.html
Parameters local – Return local information, do not retrieve the state from master node (de-
fault: false)
post(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/license-management.html
Parameters
• body – licenses to be installed
• acknowledge – whether the user has acknowledged acknowledge messages (default:
false)

7.2.4 Machine Learning APIs

Machine Learning can be useful for discovering new patterns about your data. For a more detailed explanation about
X-Pack’s machine learning please refer to the official documentation.
class elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient(client)

close_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-close-job.html
Parameters
• job_id – The name of the job to close
• force – True if the job should be forcefully closed
• timeout – Controls the time to wait until a job has closed. Default to 30 minutes
delete_datafeed(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-delete-datafeed.html
Parameters
• datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeed to delete
• force – True if the datafeed should be forcefully deleted
delete_expired_data(**kwargs)
delete_filter(**kwargs)
Parameters filter_id – The ID of the filter to delete
delete_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-delete-job.html
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• job_id – The ID of the job to delete

• force – True if the job should be forcefully deleted
delete_model_snapshot(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-delete-snapshot.html
Parameters
• job_id – The ID of the job to fetch
• snapshot_id – The ID of the snapshot to delete
flush_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-flush-job.html
Parameters
• job_id – The name of the job to flush
• body – Flush parameters
• advance_time – Advances time to the given value generating results and updating the
model for the advanced interval
• calc_interim – Calculates interim results for the most recent bucket or all buckets
within the latency period
• end – When used in conjunction with calc_interim, specifies the range of buckets on
which to calculate interim results
• skip_time – Skips time to the given value without generating results or updating the
model for the skipped interval
• start – When used in conjunction with calc_interim, specifies the range of buckets on
which to calculate interim results
forecast_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-forecast.html
Parameters
• job_id – The name of the job to close
• duration – A period of time that indicates how far into the future to forecast
• expires_in – The period of time that forecast results are retained.
get_buckets(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-bucket.html
Parameters
• job_id – ID of the job to get bucket results from
• timestamp – The timestamp of the desired single bucket result
• body – Bucket selection details if not provided in URI
• anomaly_score – Filter for the most anomalous buckets
• desc – Set the sort direction
• end – End time filter for buckets
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• from – skips a number of buckets

• size – specifies a max number of buckets to get
• sort – Sort buckets by a particular field
• start – Start time filter for buckets
get_categories(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-category.html
Parameters
• job_id – The name of the job
• category_id – The identifier of the category definition of interest
• body – Category selection details if not provided in URI
• from – skips a number of categories
• size – specifies a max number of categories to get
get_datafeed_stats(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-datafeed-stats.html
Parameters datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeeds stats to fetch
get_datafeeds(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-datafeed.html
Parameters datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeeds to fetch
get_filters(**kwargs)
Parameters
• filter_id – The ID of the filter to fetch
• from – skips a number of filters
• size – specifies a max number of filters to get
get_influencers(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-influencer.html
Parameters
• job_id – None
• body – Influencer selection criteria
• desc – whether the results should be sorted in decending order
• end – end timestamp for the requested influencers
• exclude_interim – Exclude interim results
• from – skips a number of influencers
• influencer_score – influencer score threshold for the requested influencers
• size – specifies a max number of influencers to get
• sort – sort field for the requested influencers
• start – start timestamp for the requested influencers
get_job_stats(**kwargs)
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Parameters job_id – The ID of the jobs stats to fetch

get_jobs(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-job.html
Parameters job_id – The ID of the jobs to fetch
get_model_snapshots(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-snapshot.html
Parameters
• job_id – The ID of the job to fetch
• snapshot_id – The ID of the snapshot to fetch
• body – Model snapshot selection criteria
• desc – True if the results should be sorted in descending order
• end – The filter ‘end’ query parameter
• from – Skips a number of documents
• size – The default number of documents returned in queries as a string.
• sort – Name of the field to sort on
• start – The filter ‘start’ query parameter
get_records(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-record.html
Parameters
• job_id – None
• body – Record selection criteria
• desc – Set the sort direction
• end – End time filter for records
• exclude_interim – Exclude interim results
• from – skips a number of records
• record_score –
• size – specifies a max number of records to get
• sort – Sort records by a particular field
• start – Start time filter for records
open_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-open-job.html
Parameters job_id – The ID of the job to open
post_data(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-post-data.html
Parameters
• job_id – The name of the job receiving the data
• body – The data to process
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preview_datafeed(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-preview-datafeed.html
Parameters datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeed to preview
put_datafeed(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-put-datafeed.html
Parameters
• datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeed to create
• body – The datafeed config
put_filter(**kwargs)
Parameters
• filter_id – The ID of the filter to create
• body – The filter details
put_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-put-job.html
Parameters
• job_id – The ID of the job to create
• body – The job
revert_model_snapshot(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-revert-snapshot.html
Parameters
• job_id – The ID of the job to fetch
• snapshot_id – The ID of the snapshot to revert to
• body – Reversion options
• delete_intervening_results – Should we reset the results back to the time of
the snapshot?
start_datafeed(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-start-datafeed.html
Parameters
• datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeed to start
• body – The start datafeed parameters
• end – The end time when the datafeed should stop. When not set, the datafeed continues
in real time
• start – The start time from where the datafeed should begin
• timeout – Controls the time to wait until a datafeed has started. Default to 20 seconds
stop_datafeed(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-stop-datafeed.html
Parameters
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• force – True if the datafeed should be forcefully stopped.

• timeout – Controls the time to wait until a datafeed has stopped. Default to 20 seconds
update_datafeed(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-datafeed.html
Parameters
• datafeed_id – The ID of the datafeed to update
• body – The datafeed update settings
update_job(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-job.html
Parameters
• job_id – The ID of the job to create
• body – The job update settings
update_model_snapshot(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-snapshot.html
Parameters
• job_id – The ID of the job to fetch
• snapshot_id – The ID of the snapshot to update
• body – The model snapshot properties to update
validate(**kwargs)
Parameters body – The job config
validate_detector(**kwargs)
Parameters body – The detector

7.2.5 Security APIs

Security API can be used to help secure your Elasticsearch cluster. Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory.
class elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient(client)

authenticate(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-authenticate.html
change_password(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-change-password.html
Parameters
• body – the new password for the user
• username – The username of the user to change the password for
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
clear_cached_realms(**kwargs)
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Parameters
• realms – Comma-separated list of realms to clear
• usernames – Comma-separated list of usernames to clear from the cache
clear_cached_roles(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-roles.html#
security-api-clear-role-cache
Parameters name – Role name
delete_role(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-roles.html#
security-api-delete-role
Parameters
• name – Role name
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
delete_role_mapping(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-role-mapping.html#
security-api-delete-role-mapping
Parameters
• name – Role-mapping name
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
delete_user(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-users.html#
security-api-delete-user
Parameters
• username – username
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
disable_user(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-users.html#
security-api-disable-user
Parameters
• username – The username of the user to disable
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
enable_user(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-users.html#
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• username – The username of the user to enable

• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
get_role(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-roles.html#
security-api-get-role
Parameters name – Role name
get_role_mapping(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-role-mapping.html#
security-api-get-role-mapping
Parameters name – Role-Mapping name
get_token(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-tokens.html#
security-api-get-token
Parameters body – The token request to get
get_user(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-users.html#
security-api-get-user
Parameters username – A comma-separated list of usernames
invalidate_token(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-tokens.html#
security-api-invalidate-token
Parameters body – The token to invalidate
put_role(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-roles.html#
security-api-put-role
Parameters
• name – Role name
• body – The role to add
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’
put_role_mapping(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-role-mapping.html#
security-api-put-role-mapping
Parameters
• name – Role-mapping name
• body – The role to add
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
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put_user(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-users.html#
security-api-put-user
Parameters
• username – The username of the User
• body – The user to add
• refresh – If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search,
if false then do nothing with refreshes., valid choices are: ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘wait_for’

7.2.6 Watcher APIs

Watcher API can be used to notify you when certain pre-defined thresholds have happened.
class elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient(client)

ack_watch(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-ack-watch.html
Parameters
• watch_id – Watch ID
• action_id – A comma-separated list of the action ids to be acked
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
activate_watch(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-activate-watch.html
Parameters
• watch_id – Watch ID
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
deactivate_watch(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-deactivate-watch.html
Parameters
• watch_id – Watch ID
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
delete_watch(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-delete-watch.html
Parameters
• id – Watch ID
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
execute_watch(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-execute-watch.html
Parameters
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• body – Execution control

• debug – indicates whether the watch should execute in debug mode
get_watch(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-get-watch.html
Parameters id – Watch ID
put_watch(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-put-watch.html
Parameters
• id – Watch ID
• body – The watch
• active – Specify whether the watch is in/active by default
• master_timeout – Explicit operation timeout for connection to master node
restart(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-restart.html
start(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-start.html
stats(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-stats.html
Parameters
• metric – Controls what additional stat metrics should be include in the response
• emit_stacktraces – Emits stack traces of currently running watches
stop(**kwargs)
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/watcher-api-stop.html

7.2.7 Migration APIs

Migration API helps simplify upgrading X-Pack indices from one version to another.
class elasticsearch.client.xpack.migration.MigrationClient(client)

get_assistance(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/migration-api-assistance.html
Parameters
• index – A comma-separated list of index names; use _all or empty string to perform the
operation on all indices
• allow_no_indices – Whether to ignore if a wildcard indices expression resolves into
no concrete indices. (This includes _all string or when no indices have been specified)
• expand_wildcards – Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that
are open, closed or both., default ‘open’, valid choices are: ‘open’, ‘closed’, ‘none’, ‘all’
• ignore_unavailable – Whether specified concrete indices should be ignored when
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upgrade(**kwargs)
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/migration-api-upgrade.html
Parameters
• index – The name of the index
• wait_for_completion – Should the request block until the upgrade operation is
completed, default True

7.3 Exceptions

class elasticsearch.ImproperlyConfigured
Exception raised when the config passed to the client is inconsistent or invalid.
class elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException
Base class for all exceptions raised by this package’s operations (doesn’t apply to
ImproperlyConfigured).
class elasticsearch.SerializationError(ElasticsearchException)
Data passed in failed to serialize properly in the Serializer being used.
class elasticsearch.TransportError(ElasticsearchException)
Exception raised when ES returns a non-OK (>=400) HTTP status code. Or when an actual connection error
happens; in that case the status_code will be set to 'N/A'.
error
A string error message.
info
Dict of returned error info from ES, where available, underlying exception when not.
status_code
The HTTP status code of the response that precipitated the error or 'N/A' if not applicable.
class elasticsearch.ConnectionError(TransportError)
Error raised when there was an exception while talking to ES. Original exception from the underlying
Connection implementation is available as .info.
class elasticsearch.ConnectionTimeout(ConnectionError)
A network timeout. Doesn’t cause a node retry by default.
class elasticsearch.SSLError(ConnectionError)
Error raised when encountering SSL errors.
class elasticsearch.NotFoundError(TransportError)
Exception representing a 404 status code.
class elasticsearch.ConflictError(TransportError)
Exception representing a 409 status code.
class elasticsearch.RequestError(TransportError)
Exception representing a 400 status code.

7.4 Connection Layer API

All of the classes responsible for handling the connection to the Elasticsearch cluster. The default subclasses used can
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on to Transport, ConnectionPool and Connection.

For example if you wanted to use your own implementation of the ConnectionSelector class you can just pass
in the selector_class parameter.

Note: ConnectionPool and related options (like selector_class) will only be used if more than one con-
nection is defined. Either directly or via the Sniffing mechanism.

7.4.1 Transport

class elasticsearch.Transport(hosts, connection_class=Urllib3HttpConnection,

connection_pool_class=ConnectionPool,
host_info_callback=construct_hosts_list, sniff_on_start=False,
sniffer_timeout=None, sniff_on_connection_fail=False, serial-
izer=JSONSerializer(), max_retries=3, ** kwargs)
Encapsulation of transport-related to logic. Handles instantiation of the individual connections as well as creat-
ing a connection pool to hold them.
Main interface is the perform_request method.
Parameters
• hosts – list of dictionaries, each containing keyword arguments to create a connec-
tion_class instance
• connection_class – subclass of Connection to use
• connection_pool_class – subclass of ConnectionPool to use
• host_info_callback – callback responsible for taking the node information from
/_cluser/nodes, along with already extracted information, and producing a list of arguments
(same as hosts parameter)
• sniff_on_start – flag indicating whether to obtain a list of nodes from the cluser at
startup time
• sniffer_timeout – number of seconds between automatic sniffs
• sniff_on_connection_fail – flag controlling if connection failure triggers a sniff
• sniff_timeout – timeout used for the sniff request - it should be a fast api call and we
are talking potentially to more nodes so we want to fail quickly. Not used during initial
sniffing (if sniff_on_start is on) when the connection still isn’t initialized.
• serializer – serializer instance
• serializers – optional dict of serializer instances that will be used for deserializing data
coming from the server. (key is the mimetype)
• default_mimetype – when no mimetype is specified by the server response assume
this mimetype, defaults to ‘application/json’
• max_retries – maximum number of retries before an exception is propagated
• retry_on_status – set of HTTP status codes on which we should retry on a different
node. defaults to (502, 503, 504)
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• send_get_body_as – for GET requests with body this option allows you to specify an
alternate way of execution for environments that don’t support passing bodies with GET
requests. If you set this to ‘POST’ a POST method will be used instead, if to ‘source’ then
the body will be serialized and passed as a query parameter source.
Any extra keyword arguments will be passed to the connection_class when creating and instance unless over-
ridden by that connection’s options provided as part of the hosts parameter.
add_connection(host)
Create a new Connection instance and add it to the pool.
Parameters host – kwargs that will be used to create the instance
close()
Explicitly closes connections
get_connection()
Retreive a Connection instance from the ConnectionPool instance.
mark_dead(connection)
Mark a connection as dead (failed) in the connection pool. If sniffing on failure is enabled this will initiate
the sniffing process.
Parameters connection – instance of Connection that failed
perform_request(method, url, headers=None, params=None, body=None)
Perform the actual request. Retrieve a connection from the connection pool, pass all the information to it’s
perform_request method and return the data.
If an exception was raised, mark the connection as failed and retry (up to max_retries times).
If the operation was succesful and the connection used was previously marked as dead, mark it as live,
resetting it’s failure count.
Parameters
• method – HTTP method to use
• url – absolute url (without host) to target
• headers – dictionary of headers, will be handed over to the underlying Connection
class
• params – dictionary of query parameters, will be handed over to the underlying
Connection class for serialization
• body – body of the request, will be serializes using serializer and passed to the connection
set_connections(hosts)
Instantiate all the connections and create new connection pool to hold them. Tries to identify unchanged
hosts and re-use existing Connection instances.
Parameters hosts – same as __init__
sniff_hosts(initial=False)
Obtain a list of nodes from the cluster and create a new connection pool using the information retrieved.
To extract the node connection parameters use the nodes_to_host_callback.
Parameters initial – flag indicating if this is during startup (sniff_on_start), ignore
the sniff_timeout if True

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7.4.2 Connection Pool

class elasticsearch.ConnectionPool(connections, dead_timeout=60, selec-

tor_class=RoundRobinSelector, randomize_hosts=True,
** kwargs)
Container holding the Connection instances, managing the selection process (via a
ConnectionSelector) and dead connections.
It’s only interactions are with the Transport class that drives all the actions within ConnectionPool.
Initially connections are stored on the class as a list and, along with the connection options, get passed to the
ConnectionSelector instance for future reference.
Upon each request the Transport will ask for a Connection via the get_connection method. If the connection
fails (it’s perform_request raises a ConnectionError) it will be marked as dead (via mark_dead) and put on a
timeout (if it fails N times in a row the timeout is exponentially longer - the formula is default_timeout * 2 **
(fail_count - 1)). When the timeout is over the connection will be resurrected and returned to the live pool. A
connection that has been previously marked as dead and succeeds will be marked as live (its fail count will be
deleted).
Parameters
• connections – list of tuples containing the Connection instance and it’s options
• dead_timeout – number of seconds a connection should be retired for after a failure,
increases on consecutive failures
• timeout_cutoff – number of consecutive failures after which the timeout doesn’t in-
crease
• selector_class – ConnectionSelector subclass to use if more than one connec-
tion is live
• randomize_hosts – shuffle the list of connections upon arrival to avoid dog piling effect
across processes
close()
Explicitly closes connections
get_connection()
Return a connection from the pool using the ConnectionSelector instance.
It tries to resurrect eligible connections, forces a resurrection when no connections are availible and passes
the list of live connections to the selector instance to choose from.
Returns a connection instance and it’s current fail count.
mark_dead(connection, now=None)
Mark the connection as dead (failed). Remove it from the live pool and put it on a timeout.
Parameters connection – the failed instance
mark_live(connection)
Mark connection as healthy after a resurrection. Resets the fail counter for the connection.
Parameters connection – the connection to redeem
resurrect(force=False)
Attempt to resurrect a connection from the dead pool. It will try to locate one (not all) eligible (it’s timeout
is over) connection to return to the live pool. Any resurrected connection is also returned.
Parameters force – resurrect a connection even if there is none eligible (used when we have
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class elasticsearch.ConnectionSelector(opts)
Simple class used to select a connection from a list of currently live connection instances. In init time it is passed
a dictionary containing all the connections’ options which it can then use during the selection process. When
the select method is called it is given a list of currently live connections to choose from.
The options dictionary is the one that has been passed to Transport as hosts param and the same that is used
to construct the Connection object itself. When the Connection was created from information retrieved from the
cluster via the sniffing process it will be the dictionary returned by the host_info_callback.
Example of where this would be useful is a zone-aware selector that would only select connections from it’s
own zones and only fall back to other connections where there would be none in it’s zones.
Parameters opts – dictionary of connection instances and their options
select(connections)
Select a connection from the given list.
Parameters connections – list of live connections to choose from

7.4.4 Urllib3HttpConnection (default connection_class)

If you have complex SSL logic for connecting to Elasticsearch using an SSLContext object might be more helpful.
You can create one natively using the python SSL library with the create_default_context (https://docs.python.org/3/
library/ssl.html#ssl.create_default_context) method.
To create an SSLContext object you only need to use one of cafile, capath or cadata:

>>> from ssl import create_default_context

>>> context = create_default_context(cafile=None, capath=None, cadata=None)

• cafile is the path to your CA File

• capath is the directory of a collection of CA’s
• cadata is either an ASCII string of one or more PEM-encoded certificates or a bytes-like object of DER-encoded
certificates.
Please note that the use of SSLContext is only available for Urllib3.
class elasticsearch.Urllib3HttpConnection(host=’localhost’, port=9200,
http_auth=None, use_ssl=False, ver-
ify_certs=None, ca_certs=None,
client_cert=None, client_key=None,
ssl_version=None, ssl_assert_hostname=None,
ssl_assert_fingerprint=None, max-
size=10, headers=None, ssl_context=None,
http_compress=False, **kwargs)
Default connection class using the urllib3 library and the http protocol.
Parameters
• host – hostname of the node (default: localhost)
• port – port to use (integer, default: 9200)
• url_prefix – optional url prefix for elasticsearch
• timeout – default timeout in seconds (float, default: 10)
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• use_ssl – use ssl for the connection if True

• verify_certs – whether to verify SSL certificates
• ca_certs – optional path to CA bundle. See https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
security.html#using-certifi-with-urllib3 for instructions how to get default set
• client_cert – path to the file containing the private key and the certificate, or cert only
if using client_key
• client_key – path to the file containing the private key if using separate cert and key
files (client_cert will contain only the cert)
• ssl_version – version of the SSL protocol to use. Choices are: SSLv23 (default) SSLv2
SSLv3 TLSv1 (see PROTOCOL_* constants in the ssl module for exact options for your
environment).
• ssl_assert_hostname – use hostname verification if not False
• ssl_assert_fingerprint – verify the supplied certificate fingerprint if not None
• maxsize – the number of connections which will be kept open to this host. See https:
//urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.4/pools.html#api for more information.
• headers – any custom http headers to be add to requests
• http_compress – Use gzip compression
close()
Explicitly closes connection

7.5 Transport classes

List of transport classes that can be used, simply import your choice and pass it to the constructor of Elasticsearch
as connection_class. Note that the RequestsHttpConnection requires requests to be installed.
For example to use the requests-based connection just import it and use it:

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, RequestsHttpConnection

es = Elasticsearch(connection_class=RequestsHttpConnection)

The default connection class is based on urllib3 which is more performant and lightweight than the optional
requests-based class. Only use RequestsHttpConnection if you have need of any of requests advanced
features like custom auth plugins etc.

7.5.1 Connection

class elasticsearch.connection.Connection(host=’localhost’, port=9200, use_ssl=False,

url_prefix=”, timeout=10, **kwargs)
Class responsible for maintaining a connection to an Elasticsearch node. It holds persistent connection pool to
it and it’s main interface (perform_request) is thread-safe.
Also responsible for logging.
Parameters
• host – hostname of the node (default: localhost)
• port – port to use (integer, default: 9200)

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• url_prefix – optional url prefix for elasticsearch

• timeout – default timeout in seconds (float, default: 10)

7.5.2 Urllib3HttpConnection

class elasticsearch.connection.Urllib3HttpConnection(host=’localhost’,
port=9200, http_auth=None,
use_ssl=False, ver-
ify_certs=None,
ca_certs=None,
client_cert=None,
client_key=None,
ssl_version=None,
ssl_assert_hostname=None,
ssl_assert_fingerprint=None,
maxsize=10, head-
ers=None, ssl_context=None,
http_compress=False,
**kwargs)
Default connection class using the urllib3 library and the http protocol.
Parameters
• host – hostname of the node (default: localhost)
• port – port to use (integer, default: 9200)
• url_prefix – optional url prefix for elasticsearch
• timeout – default timeout in seconds (float, default: 10)
• http_auth – optional http auth information as either ‘:’ separated string or a tuple
• use_ssl – use ssl for the connection if True
• verify_certs – whether to verify SSL certificates
• ca_certs – optional path to CA bundle. See https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
security.html#using-certifi-with-urllib3 for instructions how to get default set
• client_cert – path to the file containing the private key and the certificate, or cert only
if using client_key
• client_key – path to the file containing the private key if using separate cert and key
files (client_cert will contain only the cert)
• ssl_version – version of the SSL protocol to use. Choices are: SSLv23 (default) SSLv2
SSLv3 TLSv1 (see PROTOCOL_* constants in the ssl module for exact options for your
environment).
• ssl_assert_hostname – use hostname verification if not False
• ssl_assert_fingerprint – verify the supplied certificate fingerprint if not None
• maxsize – the number of connections which will be kept open to this host. See https:
//urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.4/pools.html#api for more information.
• headers – any custom http headers to be add to requests
• http_compress – Use gzip compression

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7.5.3 RequestsHttpConnection

class elasticsearch.connection.RequestsHttpConnection(host=’localhost’, port=9200,

http_auth=None,
use_ssl=False, ver-
ify_certs=True,
ca_certs=None,
client_cert=None,
client_key=None, head-
ers=None, **kwargs)
Connection using the requests library.
Parameters
• http_auth – optional http auth information as either ‘:’ separated string or a tuple. Any
value will be passed into requests as auth.
• use_ssl – use ssl for the connection if True
• verify_certs – whether to verify SSL certificates
• ca_certs – optional path to CA bundle. By default standard requests’ bundle will be
used.
• client_cert – path to the file containing the private key and the certificate, or cert only
if using client_key
• client_key – path to the file containing the private key if using separate cert and key
files (client_cert will contain only the cert)
• headers – any custom http headers to be add to requests

7.6 Helpers

Collection of simple helper functions that abstract some specifics or the raw API.

7.6.1 Bulk helpers

There are several helpers for the bulk API since its requirement for specific formatting and other considerations can
make it cumbersome if used directly.
All bulk helpers accept an instance of Elasticsearch class and an iterable actions (any iterable, can also be a
generator, which is ideal in most cases since it will allow you to index large datasets without the need of loading them
into memory).
The items in the action iterable should be the documents we wish to index in several formats. The most common
one is the same as returned by search(), for example:
{
'_index': 'index-name',
'_type': 'document',
'_id': 42,
'_routing': 5,
'pipeline': 'my-ingest-pipeline',
'_source': {
"title": "Hello World!",
"body": "..."
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}
}

Alternatively, if _source is not present, it will pop all metadata fields from the doc and use the rest as the document
data:

{
"_id": 42,
"_routing": 5,
"title": "Hello World!",
"body": "..."
}

The bulk() api accepts index, create, delete, and update actions. Use the _op_type field to specify an
action (_op_type defaults to index):

{
'_op_type': 'delete',
'_index': 'index-name',
'_type': 'document',
'_id': 42,
}
{
'_op_type': 'update',
'_index': 'index-name',
'_type': 'document',
'_id': 42,
'doc': {'question': 'The life, universe and everything.'}
}

Example:

Lets say we have an iterable of data. Lets say a list of words called mywords and we want to index those words into
individual documents where the structure of the document is like {"word": "<myword>"}.

def gendata():
mywords = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
for word in mywords:
yield {
"_index": "mywords",
"doc": {"word": myword},
}

bulk(es, gendata)

For a more complete and complex example please take a look at https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/blob/
master/example/load.py#L76-L130

Note: When reading raw json strings from a file, you can also pass them in directly (without decoding to dicts first).
In that case, however, you lose the ability to specify anything (index, type, even id) on a per-record basis, all documents
will just be sent to elasticsearch to be indexed as-is.

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elasticsearch.helpers.streaming_bulk(client, actions, chunk_size=500,

max_chunk_bytes=104857600, raise_on_error=True,
expand_action_callback=<function expand_action>,
raise_on_exception=True, max_retries=0, ini-
tial_backoff=2, max_backoff=600, yield_ok=True,
*args, **kwargs)
Streaming bulk consumes actions from the iterable passed in and yields results per action. For non-streaming
usecases use bulk() which is a wrapper around streaming bulk that returns summary information about the
bulk operation once the entire input is consumed and sent.
If you specify max_retries it will also retry any documents that were rejected with a 429 status code. To
do this it will wait (by calling time.sleep which will block) for initial_backoff seconds and then, every
subsequent rejection for the same chunk, for double the time every time up to max_backoff seconds.
Parameters
• client – instance of Elasticsearch to use
• actions – iterable containing the actions to be executed
• chunk_size – number of docs in one chunk sent to es (default: 500)
• max_chunk_bytes – the maximum size of the request in bytes (default: 100MB)
• raise_on_error – raise BulkIndexError containing errors (as .errors) from the
execution of the last chunk when some occur. By default we raise.
• raise_on_exception – if False then don’t propagate exceptions from call to bulk
and just report the items that failed as failed.
• expand_action_callback – callback executed on each action passed in, should return
a tuple containing the action line and the data line (None if data line should be omitted).
• max_retries – maximum number of times a document will be retried when 429 is
received, set to 0 (default) for no retries on 429
• initial_backoff – number of seconds we should wait before the first retry. Any sub-
sequent retries will be powers of initial_backoff * 2**retry_number
• max_backoff – maximum number of seconds a retry will wait
• yield_ok – if set to False will skip successful documents in the output
elasticsearch.helpers.parallel_bulk(client, actions, thread_count=4, chunk_size=500,
max_chunk_bytes=104857600, queue_size=4, ex-
pand_action_callback=<function expand_action>,
*args, **kwargs)
Parallel version of the bulk helper run in multiple threads at once.
Parameters
• client – instance of Elasticsearch to use
• actions – iterator containing the actions
• thread_count – size of the threadpool to use for the bulk requests
• chunk_size – number of docs in one chunk sent to es (default: 500)
• max_chunk_bytes – the maximum size of the request in bytes (default: 100MB)
• raise_on_error – raise BulkIndexError containing errors (as .errors) from the
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and just report the items that failed as failed.
• expand_action_callback – callback executed on each action passed in, should return
a tuple containing the action line and the data line (None if data line should be omitted).
• queue_size – size of the task queue between the main thread (producing chunks to send)
and the processing threads.
elasticsearch.helpers.bulk(client, actions, stats_only=False, *args, **kwargs)
Helper for the bulk() api that provides a more human friendly interface - it consumes an iterator of actions
and sends them to elasticsearch in chunks. It returns a tuple with summary information - number of successfully
executed actions and either list of errors or number of errors if stats_only is set to True. Note that by
default we raise a BulkIndexError when we encounter an error so options like stats_only only apply
when raise_on_error is set to False.
When errors are being collected original document data is included in the error dictionary which can lead to an
extra high memory usage. If you need to process a lot of data and want to ignore/collect errors please consider
using the streaming_bulk() helper which will just return the errors and not store them in memory.
Parameters
• client – instance of Elasticsearch to use
• actions – iterator containing the actions
• stats_only – if True only report number of successful/failed operations instead of just
number of successful and a list of error responses
Any additional keyword arguments will be passed to streaming_bulk() which is used to execute the oper-
ation, see streaming_bulk() for more accepted parameters.

7.6.2 Scan

elasticsearch.helpers.scan(client, query=None, scroll=u’5m’, raise_on_error=True,

preserve_order=False, size=1000, request_timeout=None,
clear_scroll=True, scroll_kwargs=None, **kwargs)
Simple abstraction on top of the scroll() api - a simple iterator that yields all hits as returned by underlining
scroll requests.
By default scan does not return results in any pre-determined order. To have a standard order in the returned
documents (either by score or explicit sort definition) when scrolling, use preserve_order=True. This
may be an expensive operation and will negate the performance benefits of using scan.
Parameters
• client – instance of Elasticsearch to use
• query – body for the search() api
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for scrolled
search
• raise_on_error – raises an exception (ScanError) if an error is encountered (some
shards fail to execute). By default we raise.
• preserve_order – don’t set the search_type to scan - this will cause the scroll to
paginate with preserving the order. Note that this can be an extremely expensive operation
and can easily lead to unpredictable results, use with caution.
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• request_timeout – explicit timeout for each call to scan

• clear_scroll – explicitly calls delete on the scroll id via the clear scroll API at the end
of the method on completion or error, defaults to true.
• scroll_kwargs – additional kwargs to be passed to scroll()
Any additional keyword arguments will be passed to the initial search() call:
scan(es,
query={"query": {"match": {"title": "python"}}},
index="orders-*",
doc_type="books"
)

7.6.3 Reindex

elasticsearch.helpers.reindex(client, source_index, target_index, query=None, tar-

get_client=None, chunk_size=500, scroll=u’5m’,
scan_kwargs={}, bulk_kwargs={})
Reindex all documents from one index that satisfy a given query to another, potentially (if target_client is
specified) on a different cluster. If you don’t specify the query you will reindex all the documents.
Since 2.3 a reindex() api is available as part of elasticsearch itself. It is recommended to use the api instead
of this helper wherever possible. The helper is here mostly for backwards compatibility and for situations where
more flexibility is needed.

Note: This helper doesn’t transfer mappings, just the data.

Parameters
• client – instance of Elasticsearch to use (for read if target_client is specified as
well)
• source_index – index (or list of indices) to read documents from
• target_index – name of the index in the target cluster to populate
• query – body for the search() api
• target_client – optional, is specified will be used for writing (thus enabling reindex
between clusters)
• chunk_size – number of docs in one chunk sent to es (default: 500)
• scroll – Specify how long a consistent view of the index should be maintained for scrolled
search
• scan_kwargs – additional kwargs to be passed to scan()
• bulk_kwargs – additional kwargs to be passed to bulk()

7.7 Changelog

7.7.1 6.4.0 (dev)

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7.7.2 6.3.0 (2018-06-20)

• Add an exponential wait on delays

• Fix issues with dependencies
• Adding X-pack Docs
• Adding forecast to x-pack ML client

7.7.3 6.2.0 (2018-03-20)

• cleanup for SSL Context

• Add X-Pack clients to -py
• Adding Gzip support for capacity constrained networks
• _routing in bulk action has been deprecated in ES. Introduces a breaking change if you use routing as a
field in your documents.

7.7.4 6.1.1 (2018-01-05)

• Updates to SSLContext logic to make it easier to use and have saner defaults.
• Doc updates

7.7.5 6.1.0 (2018-01-05)

• bad release

7.7.6 6.0.0 (2017-11-14)

• compatibility with Elasticsearch 6.0.0

7.7.7 5.5.0 (2017-11-10)

• streaming_bulk helper now supports retries with incremental backoff

• scan helper properly checks for successful shards instead of just checking failed
• compatible release with elasticsearch 5.6.4
• fix handling of UTF-8 surrogates

7.7.8 5.4.0 (2017-05-18)

• bulk helpers now extract pipeline parameter from the action dictionary.

7.7.9 5.3.0 (2017-03-30)

Compatibility with elasticsearch 5.3

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7.7.10 5.2.0 (2017-02-12)

The client now automatically sends Content-Type http header set to application/json. If you are explicitly
passing in other encoding than json you need to set the header manually.

7.7.11 5.1.0 (2017-01-11)

• Fixed sniffing

7.7.12 5.0.1 (2016-11-02)

Fixed performance regression in scan helper

7.7.13 5.0.0 (2016-10-19)

Version compatible with elasticsearch 5.0

• when using SSL certificate validation is now on by default. Install certifi or supply root certificate bundle.
• elasticsearch.trace logger now also logs failed requests, signature of internal logging method
log_request_fail has changed, all custom connection classes need to be updated
• added headers arg to connections to support custom http headers
• passing in a keyword parameter with None as value will cause that param to be ignored

7.7.14 2.4.0 (2016-08-17)

• ping now ignores all TransportError exceptions and just returns False
• expose scroll_id on ScanError
• increase default size for scan helper to 1000
Internal:
• changed Transport.perform_request to just return the body, not status as well.

7.7.15 2.3.0 (2016-02-29)

• added client_key argument to configure client certificates

• debug logging now includes response body even for failed requests

7.7.16 2.2.0 (2016-01-05)

Due to change in json encoding the client will no longer mask issues with encoding - if you work with non-ascii data
in python 2 you must use the unicode type or have proper encoding set in your environment.
• adding additional options for ssh - ssl_assert_hostname and ssl_assert_fingerprint to the
default connection class
• fix sniffing

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7.7.17 2.1.0 (2015-10-19)

• move multiprocessing import inside parallel bulk for Google App Engine

7.7.18 2.0.0 (2015-10-14)

• Elasticsearch 2.0 compatibility release

7.7.19 1.8.0 (2015-10-14)

• removed thrift and memcached connections, if you wish to continue using those, extract the classes and use
them separately.
• added a new, parallel version of the bulk helper using thread pools
• In helpers, removed bulk_index as an alias for bulk. Use bulk instead.

7.7.20 1.7.0 (2015-09-21)

• elasticsearch 2.0 compatibility

• thrift now deprecated, to be removed in future version
• make sure urllib3 always uses keep-alive

7.7.21 1.6.0 (2015-06-10)

• Add indices.flush_synced API

• helpers.reindex now supports reindexing parent/child documents

7.7.22 1.5.0 (2015-05-18)

• Add support for query_cache parameter when searching

• helpers have been made more secure by changing defaults to raise an exception on errors
• removed deprecated options replication and the deprecated benchmark api.
• Added AddonClient class to allow for extending the client from outside

7.7.23 1.4.0 (2015-02-11)

• Using insecure SSL configuration (verify_cert=False) raises a warning

• reindex accepts a query parameter
• enable reindex helper to accept any kwargs for underlying bulk and scan calls
• when doing an initial sniff (via sniff_on_start) ignore special sniff timeout
• option to treat TransportError as normal failure in bulk helpers
• fixed an issue with sniffing when only a single host was passed in

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7.7.24 1.3.0 (2014-12-31)

• Timeout now doesn’t trigger a retry by default (can be overriden by setting retry_on_timeout=True)
• Introduced new parameter retry_on_status (defaulting to (503, 504, )) controls which http status
code should lead to a retry.
• Implemented url parsing according to RFC-1738
• Added support for proper SSL certificate handling
• Required parameters are now checked for non-empty values
• ConnectionPool now checks if any connections were defined
• DummyConnectionPool introduced when no load balancing is needed (only one connection defined)
• Fixed a race condition in ConnectionPool

7.7.25 1.2.0 (2014-08-03)

Compatibility with newest (1.3) Elasticsearch APIs.

• Filter out master-only nodes when sniffing
• Improved docs and error messages

7.7.26 1.1.1 (2014-07-04)

Bugfix release fixing escaping issues with request_timeout.

7.7.27 1.1.0 (2014-07-02)

Compatibility with newest Elasticsearch APIs.

• Test helpers - ElasticsearchTestCase and get_test_client for use in your tests
• Python 3.2 compatibility
• Use simplejson if installed instead of stdlib json library
• Introducing a global request_timeout parameter for per-call timeout
• Bug fixes

7.7.28 1.0.0 (2014-02-11)

Elasticsearch 1.0 compatibility. See 0.4.X releases (and 0.4 branch) for code compatible with 0.90 elasticsearch.
• major breaking change - compatible with 1.0 elasticsearch releases only!
• Add an option to change the timeout used for sniff requests (sniff_timeout).
• empty responses from the server are now returned as empty strings instead of None
• get_alias now has name as another optional parameter due to issue #4539 in es repo. Note that the order of
params have changed so if you are not using keyword arguments this is a breaking change.

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7.7.29 0.4.4 (2013-12-23)

• helpers.bulk_index renamed to helpers.bulk (alias put in place for backwards compatibility, to be

removed in future versions)
• Added helpers.streaming_bulk to consume an iterator and yield results per operation
• helpers.bulk and helpers.streaming_bulk are no longer limited to just index operations.
• unicode body (for incices.analyze for example) is now handled correctly
• changed perform_request on Connection classes to return headers as well. This is a backwards incom-
patible change for people who have developed their own connection class.
• changed deserialization mechanics. Users who provided their own serializer that didn’t extend
JSONSerializer need to specify a mimetype class attribute.
• minor bug fixes

7.7.30 0.4.3 (2013-10-22)

• Fixes to helpers.bulk_index, better error handling

• More benevolent hosts argument parsing for Elasticsearch
• requests no longer required (nor recommended) for install

7.7.31 0.4.2 (2013-10-08)

• ignore param accepted by all APIs

• Fixes to helpers.bulk_index

7.7.32 0.4.1 (2013-09-24)

Initial release.

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License

Copyright 2018 Elasticsearch

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an
“AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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Indices and tables

• genindex
• modindex
• search

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 Python Module Index

e
elasticsearch, 75
elasticsearch.client, 37
elasticsearch.client.xpack, 64
elasticsearch.client.xpack.graph, 64
elasticsearch.client.xpack.license, 65
elasticsearch.client.xpack.migration,
74
elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml, 65
elasticsearch.client.xpack.security, 70
elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher, 73
elasticsearch.connection, 80
elasticsearch.helpers, 83

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 Index

A close_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
ack_watch() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient method), 65
method), 73 ClusterClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 50
activate_watch() (elastic- ConflictError (class in elasticsearch), 75
search.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient Connection (class in elasticsearch.connection), 80
method), 73 ConnectionError (class in elasticsearch), 75
add_connection() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77 ConnectionPool (class in elasticsearch), 78
aliases() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 54 ConnectionSelector (class in elasticsearch), 79
allocation() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 54 ConnectionTimeout (class in elasticsearch), 75
allocation_explain() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient count() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 55
method), 50 count() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 21
analyze() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 37 create() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 38
create() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient method), 61
authenticate() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
method), 70 create() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 21
create_repository() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient
B method), 61
bulk() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 20
bulk() (in module elasticsearch.helpers), 85
D
deactivate_watch() (elastic-
C search.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient
method), 73
cancel() (elasticsearch.client.TasksClient method), 63
delete() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 38
CatClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 54
delete() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient method), 61
change_password() (elastic-
delete() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.license.LicenseClient
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
method), 65
method), 70
delete() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 22
clear_cache() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method),
delete_alias() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method),
37
39
clear_cached_realms() (elastic-
delete_by_query() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method),
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
22
method), 70
delete_datafeed() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
clear_cached_roles() (elastic-
method), 65
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
delete_expired_data() (elastic-
method), 71
search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
clear_scroll() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 21
65
close() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 38
delete_filter() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
close() (elasticsearch.ConnectionPool method), 78
method), 65
close() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77
delete_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
close() (elasticsearch.Urllib3HttpConnection method), 80
method), 65

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delete_model_snapshot() (elastic- explore() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.graph.GraphClient

search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method), method), 64
66
delete_pipeline() (elasticsearch.client.IngestClient F
method), 49 field_caps() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 26
delete_repository() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient fielddata() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 55
method), 61 flush() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 40
delete_role() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
flush_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 71 method), 66
delete_role_mapping() (elastic- flush_synced() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient method), 41
method), 71 forcemerge() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method),
delete_script() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 24 41
delete_template() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient forecast_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 39 method), 66
delete_user() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
method), 71 G
delete_watch() (elastic- get() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 42
search.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient get() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient method), 62
method), 73 get() (elasticsearch.client.TasksClient method), 63
disable_user() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
get() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.license.LicenseClient
method), 71 method), 65
get() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 26
E get_alias() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 42
Elasticsearch (class in elasticsearch), 18 get_assistance() (elastic-
elasticsearch (module), 18, 75, 76 search.client.xpack.migration.MigrationClient
elasticsearch.client (module), 37 method), 74
elasticsearch.client.xpack (module), 64 get_buckets() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
elasticsearch.client.xpack.graph (module), 64 method), 66
elasticsearch.client.xpack.license (module), 65 get_categories() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
elasticsearch.client.xpack.migration (module), 74 method), 67
elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml (module), 65 get_connection() (elasticsearch.ConnectionPool method),
elasticsearch.client.xpack.security (module), 70 78
elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher (module), 73 get_connection() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77
elasticsearch.connection (module), 80 get_datafeed_stats() (elastic-
elasticsearch.helpers (module), 83 search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
ElasticsearchException (class in elasticsearch), 75 67
enable_user() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
get_datafeeds() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 71 method), 67
error (elasticsearch.TransportError attribute), 75 get_field_mapping() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
execute_watch() (elastic- method), 42
search.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient get_filters() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 73 method), 67
exists() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 39 get_influencers() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
exists() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 24 method), 67
exists_alias() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), get_job_stats() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
39 method), 67
exists_source() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 25 get_jobs() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
exists_template() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 68
method), 40 get_mapping() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
exists_type() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), method), 43
40 get_model_snapshots() (elastic-
explain() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 25 search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
68

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get_pipeline() (elasticsearch.client.IngestClient method), search.client.xpack.license), 65

50 list() (elasticsearch.client.TasksClient method), 63
get_records() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 68 M
get_repository() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient mark_dead() (elasticsearch.ConnectionPool method), 78
method), 62 mark_dead() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77
get_role() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClientmark_live() (elasticsearch.ConnectionPool method), 78
method), 72 master() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 56
get_role_mapping() (elastic- mget() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 28
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient MigrationClient (class in elastic-
method), 72 search.client.xpack.migration), 74
get_script() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 27 MlClient (class in elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml), 65
get_settings() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient method), msearch() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 28
50 msearch_template() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method),
get_settings() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 29
43 mtermvectors() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 29
get_source() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 27
get_template() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient N
method), 43 nodeattrs() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 57
get_token() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClientnodes() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 57
method), 72 NodesClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 53
get_upgrade() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient NotFoundError (class in elasticsearch), 75
method), 44
get_user() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClientO
method), 72
open() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 44
get_watch() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient
open_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 74
method), 68
GraphClient (class in elasticsearch.client.xpack.graph),
64
P
H parallel_bulk() (in module elasticsearch.helpers), 84
health() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 56 pending_tasks() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method),
health() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient method), 51 57
help() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 56 pending_tasks() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient
hot_threads() (elasticsearch.client.NodesClient method), method), 51
53 perform_request() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77
ping() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 30
I plugins() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 58
post() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.license.LicenseClient
ImproperlyConfigured (class in elasticsearch), 75
method), 65
index() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 27
post_data() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
indices() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 56
method), 68
IndicesClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 37
preview_datafeed() (elastic-
info (elasticsearch.TransportError attribute), 75
search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
info() (elasticsearch.client.NodesClient method), 53
69
info() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.XPackClient method),
put_alias() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 44
64
put_datafeed() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
info() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 28
method), 69
IngestClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 49
put_filter() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
invalidate_token() (elastic-
method), 69
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient
put_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 72
method), 69
L put_mapping() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
method), 44
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put_pipeline() (elasticsearch.client.IngestClient method), segments() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method),

50 46
put_role() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClientselect() (elasticsearch.ConnectionSelector method), 79
method), 72 SerializationError (class in elasticsearch), 75
put_role_mapping() (elastic- set_connections() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77
search.client.xpack.security.SecurityClient shard_stores() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
method), 72 method), 47
put_script() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 30 shards() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 59
put_settings() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient method), shrink() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 47
51 simulate() (elasticsearch.client.IngestClient method), 50
put_settings() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), SnapshotClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 61
45 snapshots() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 59
put_template() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient sniff_hosts() (elasticsearch.Transport method), 77
method), 45 SSLError (class in elasticsearch), 75
put_user() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.security.SecurityClientstart() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient
method), 72 method), 74
put_watch() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient start_datafeed() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 74 method), 69
state() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient method), 52
R stats() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient method), 52
recovery() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 58 stats() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 48
recovery() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 46 stats() (elasticsearch.client.NodesClient method), 53
refresh() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 46 stats() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient
reindex() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 30 method), 74
reindex() (in module elasticsearch.helpers), 86 status() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient method), 62
reindex_rethrottle() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), status_code (elasticsearch.TransportError attribute), 75
31 stop() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient
render_search_template() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 74
method), 31 stop_datafeed() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
repositories() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 58 method), 69
RequestError (class in elasticsearch), 75 streaming_bulk() (in module elasticsearch.helpers), 83
RequestsHttpConnection (class in elastic-
search.connection), 82 T
reroute() (elasticsearch.client.ClusterClient method), 51 tasks() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 60
restart() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.watcher.WatcherClient TasksClient (class in elasticsearch.client), 63
method), 74 templates() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 60
restore() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient method), 62 termvectors() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 34
resurrect() (elasticsearch.ConnectionPool method), 78 thread_pool() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 60
revert_model_snapshot() (elastic- Transport (class in elasticsearch), 76
search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method), TransportError (class in elasticsearch), 75
69
rollover() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 46 U
update() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 35
S update_aliases() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
scan() (in module elasticsearch.helpers), 85 method), 48
scroll() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 31 update_by_query() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method),
search() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 31 35
search_shards() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), 33 update_datafeed() (elastic-
search_template() (elasticsearch.Elasticsearch method), search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
33 70
SecurityClient (class in elastic- update_job() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
search.client.xpack.security), 70 method), 70
segments() (elasticsearch.client.CatClient method), 59

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update_model_snapshot() (elastic-
search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
70
upgrade() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient method), 48
upgrade() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.migration.MigrationClient
method), 74
Urllib3HttpConnection (class in elasticsearch), 79
Urllib3HttpConnection (class in elastic-
search.connection), 81
usage() (elasticsearch.client.NodesClient method), 54
usage() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.XPackClient method),
64

V
validate() (elasticsearch.client.xpack.ml.MlClient
method), 70
validate_detector() (elastic-
search.client.xpack.ml.MlClient method),
70
validate_query() (elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient
method), 49
verify_repository() (elasticsearch.client.SnapshotClient
method), 62

W
WatcherClient (class in elastic-
search.client.xpack.watcher), 73

X
XPackClient (class in elasticsearch.client.xpack), 64

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