# Bulk delete in elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826 "2020-04-20T09:24:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@A\_google\_user](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_google_user)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/1 "2020-04-20T09:24:48Z")
If I have a list of ids can I bulk delete those documents with ids?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/2 "2020-04-20T09:49:12Z")
Yes you can. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html)
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### Author:  [@A\_google\_user](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_google_user)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/3 "2020-04-20T10:51:51Z")
> **[Search::Elasticsearch::Client::5\_0::Bulk - A helper module for the Bulk API -...](https://metacpan.org/pod/Search::Elasticsearch::Client::5_0::Bulk)**
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> A helper module for the Bulk API
in this link delete by id works. do we have same method for ruby as well?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/4 "2020-04-20T11:42:19Z")
I don't know. I'm not writing ruby code 😃
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### Author:  [@A\_google\_user](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_google_user)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/5 "2020-04-20T12:36:03Z")
okay no problem 😃. I had one doubt about the scroll. Once we make a request to ES about scrolling it returns a scroll id. Do we need to close this scroll request?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/6 "2020-04-20T12:50:44Z")
It's not related. Is it?
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### Author:  [@A\_google\_user](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_google_user)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/7 "2020-04-21T21:11:26Z")
No it's not. sorry. I did not understand bulk part in that. How can I send multiple ids to be deleted? I dont understand what to be sent.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/8 "2020-04-21T21:39:30Z")
This:
```
POST test/_bulk
{ "delete" : { "_id" : "1" } }
{ "delete" : { "_id" : "2" } }
{ "delete" : { "_id" : "3" } }
```
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### Author:  [@A\_google\_user](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_google_user)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/9 "2020-04-21T21:42:38Z")
thanks this is helpful.
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### Author:  [@A\_google\_user](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_google_user)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/10 "2020-04-22T10:23:53Z")
If I have to send this body from code (using http.post method). each entry would be a different element in the array, right?
for example
```auto
body[0] = { "delete" : { "_id" : "1" } }
body[1] = { "delete" : { "_id" : "2" } }
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/11 "2020-04-22T11:19:21Z")
No idea. I'm a Java dev.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-delete-in-elasticsearch/228826/12 "2020-05-20T11:19:26Z")
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