Get Document

Lesson in the Elasticsearch Roadmap · Stage 4: Leaf vs Compound Queries

Last updated 14 September 2026

Get Document?

To retrieve a specific document from an Elasticsearch index, you need to know its unique identifier. You can then use the Get API, providing the index name and the document ID. Elasticsearch will then search for the document with that ID within the specified index and return it. The response will include the document's source data (the fields and their values), along with metadata like the index, ID, version, and whether the document was found.

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Free resources to learn Get Document

Official docsGet a document by its ID
ArticleEfficiently Searching by Document ID in Elasticsearch
VideoHow to retrieve documents in Elasticsearch?

Get Document: common questions

Can I learn Get Document in Hindi?

This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Get Document in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.

Is this Get Document tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 39 of 113 in the free Elasticsearch roadmap, in stage 4, Leaf vs Compound Queries. If you are new to Elasticsearch, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.