# Bulk explain?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-explain/14368
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 12, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-explain/14368 "2013-11-12T20:25:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@benmccann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benmccann)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-explain/14368/1 "2013-11-12T20:25:10Z")
Hi,
I'd like to find how ElasticSearch would score 100 documents for a query. I
only care about the final score and not how it was computed. It seems that
the Explain API[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html)is the best method of figuring this out. Is it possible to combine this
with the Bulk API[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html)so that I don't have to hit ElasticSearch 100 times? My initial indication
is that you can't do it today. Would it be a reasonable thing for me to
file a feature request for in Github?
Thanks,
Ben
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-explain/14368/2 "2013-11-12T20:35:04Z")
Can you run a the same query with an ids filter and explain enabled? The
ids filter will not contribute to the scoring and will only return the
relevant documents.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Ben McCann [benjamin.j.mccann@gmail.com](mailto:benjamin.j.mccann@gmail.com)wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to find how Elasticsearch would score 100 documents for a query.
> I only care about the final score and not how it was computed. It seems
> that the Explain API[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html)is the best method of figuring this out. Is it possible to combine this
> with the Bulk API[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html)so that I don't have to hit Elasticsearch 100 times? My initial indication
> is that you can't do it today. Would it be a reasonable thing for me to
> file a feature request for in Github?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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### Author:  [@Ben\_McCann\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben_McCann_2)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-explain/14368/3 "2013-11-12T21:25:16Z")
Yeah, that's a great idea. Thanks Ivan!
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
> Can you run a the same query with an ids filter and explain enabled? The
> ids filter will not contribute to the scoring and will only return the
> relevant documents.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ivan
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Ben McCann [benjamin.j.mccann@gmail.com](mailto:benjamin.j.mccann@gmail.com)wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to find how Elasticsearch would score 100 documents for a query.
> > I only care about the final score and not how it was computed. It seems
> > that the Explain API[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html)is the best method of figuring this out. Is it possible to combine this
> > with the Bulk API[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html)so that I don't have to hit Elasticsearch 100 times? My initial indication
> > is that you can't do it today. Would it be a reasonable thing for me to
> > file a feature request for in Github?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-explain/14368/4 "2017-07-06T02:07:39Z")