# Can you search top\_hits aggregation documents?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-you-search-top-hits-aggregation-documents/36582
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 7, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-you-search-top-hits-aggregation-documents/36582 "2015-12-07T22:50:48Z")
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### Author: ![cmk1523](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cmk1523/32/6474_2.png) [@cmk1523](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cmk1523)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-you-search-top-hits-aggregation-documents/36582/1 "2015-12-07T22:50:48Z")

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If I do an top\_hits aggregation which returns documents in the top\_hits buckets, can I search and/or filter that bucket for certain documents (via field)?

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-you-search-top-hits-aggregation-documents/36582/2 "2017-07-05T23:32:55Z")

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