# Additing Conditions to API Results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 25, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594 "2021-10-25T14:55:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Mobley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tim_Mobley)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594/1 "2021-10-25T14:55:04Z")
I was wondering if there is any way to filter API results in Dev Tools to show conditions. For example, instead of this:
```auto
GET _cat/shards?v=true&h=index,shard,prirep,state,docs,store,node,segments.count,unassigned.details,unassigned.reason
```
...I'd like to show _only_ the results where `state=UNASSIGNED` and `segment.count>1`
I did look at the [cat shards API documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-shards.html), but while you can do `v=true` and `h=index`, I don't see how to set conditions for the columns in the results.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594/2 "2021-10-25T22:55:05Z")
Not in the `_cat` API, no. The idea with it is you use something like `grep`, `jq` or similar to do this.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Mobley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tim_Mobley)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594/3 "2021-10-28T13:01:36Z")
Can you use grep in Dev Tools? Or does this have to be done outside Kibana - in command prompt? (We're in an all-Windows environment.)
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594/4 "2021-10-29T00:28:15Z")
You can't no. It might be worth making a feature request to allow filtering against the API though, it makes sense.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/additing-conditions-to-api-results/287594/5 "2021-11-26T00:29:14Z")
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