Python Elasticsearch Client

Official low-level client for Elasticsearch. It’s 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.

Example Usage

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch()

doc = {
    'author': 'kimchy',
    'text': 'Elasticsearch: cool. bonsai cool.',
    'timestamp': datetime(2010, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10)
}
res = es.index(index="test-index", doc_type='tweet', id=1, body=doc)
print(res['ok'])

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"])

Features

This client was designed as very thin wrapper around Elasticseach’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.

Extendability

Configurable connections and load balancing (see Connection Layer API)::
  • persistent connections
  • configurable load balancing strategy
  • different protocols and connection classes
  • ...

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.

License

Copyright 2013 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

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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