Common elastic search commands

elasticsearch-cmds

# ** List all indexes, all pretty-like
curl http://localhost:9200/_aliases?pretty=1

# ** Create an index, with specified settings
# Sample settings shown here; creates an index named "wiki"
# with 8 shards. Also creates a mapping called "articles"
# which specifies the index type for its properties ("text",
# "url" and "title") as "not_analyzed".
# See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/index-doc.html

curl -XPOST localhost:9200/wiki -d '{
    "settings" : {
        "number_of_shards" : 8
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "articles" : {
            "_source" : { "enabled" : false },
            "properties" : {
                "text" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "not_analyzed" },
                "url" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "not_analyzed" },
                "title" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "not_analyzed" }
            }
        }
    }
}'

# **View the status of the index, all pretty-like
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/wiki/_status?pretty=1'

# **Index a document
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/wiki/articles/' -d '{
    "title" : "Article",
    "url" : "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article",
    "text" : "This is a wikipedia article on articles."
}'

# ** Delete an index
curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/wiki/'