The official low-level Elasticsearch client for Node.js and the browser.
- One-to-one mapping with REST API and the other official clients
- Generalized, pluggable architecture. See Extending Core Components
- Configurable, automatic discovery of cluster nodes
- Persistent, Keep-Alive connections
- Load balancing (with pluggable selection strategy) across all available nodes.
npm install elasticsearch
Check out the Browser Builds doc page for help downloading and setting up the client for use in the browser.
- Quick Start
- Browser Builds
- API
- Configuration
- Development/Contributing
- Extending Core Components
- Logging
You can probably find help in the #elasticsearch-js or #kibana rooms on freenode.
Elasticsearch.js provides support for, and is regularly tested against, Elasticsearch releases 0.90.12 and greater. We also test against the latest changes in several branches in the Elasticsearch repository. To tell the client which version of Elastisearch you are using, and therefore the API it should provide, set the apiVersion
config param. More info
Create a client instance
var elasticsearch = require('elasticsearch');
var client = new elasticsearch.Client({
host: 'localhost:9200',
log: 'trace'
});
Send a HEAD request to /?hello=elasticsearch
and allow up to 1 second for it to complete.
client.ping({
// ping usually has a 3000ms timeout
requestTimeout: Infinity,
// undocumented params are appended to the query string
hello: "elasticsearch!"
}, function (error) {
if (error) {
console.trace('elasticsearch cluster is down!');
} else {
console.log('All is well');
}
});
Skip the callback to get a promise back
client.search({
q: 'pants'
}).then(function (body) {
var hits = body.hits.hits;
}, function (error) {
console.trace(error.message);
});
Find tweets that have "elasticsearch" in their body field
client.search({
index: 'twitter',
type: 'tweets',
body: {
query: {
match: {
body: 'elasticsearch'
}
}
}
}).then(function (resp) {
var hits = resp.hits.hits;
}, function (err) {
console.trace(err.message);
});
More examples and detailed information about each method are available here
This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.
Copyright (c) 2014 Elasticsearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org>
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
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