elasticsearch return total hits only

Question

i want to send query to ELS that return only the total hits.

without anything else

like if i get the respone

{   "took": 1111,   "timed_out": false,   "_shards": {
    "total": 9,
    "successful": 9,
    "failed": 0   },   "hits": {
    "total": 731552,   
 }

i want to print only 731552

for now i just send :

curl http://server:9200/games_profilder/_search

thanks

Answer 1

You can use response filtering for this:

curl http://server:9200/games_profilder/_search?filter_path=hits.total

which will yield

{
  "hits": {
    "total": 731552
  }
}

If you really want to only get the total, you can pipe the result with jq like this:

curl http://server:9200/games_profilder/_search?filter_path=hits.total | jq '.hits.total'

and that will yield only the number 731552