Node.js 8 the Right Way

Implementing an Elasticsearch Query Command

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

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

$ ./esclu get '_search' | jq '.' | head -n 20
{
  "took": 3,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
    "total": 5,
    "successful": 5,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
    "total": 53212,
    "max_score": 1,
    "hits": [
      {
        "_index": "books",
        "_type": "book",
        "_id": "pg100",
        "_score": 1,
        "_source": {
          "id": 100,
 "title": "The ...