# Elastic search 2.2 and HTTP delete api?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-2-2-and-http-delete-api/44637>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-2-2-and-http-delete-api/44637 "2016-03-17T00:12:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![asharif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/asharif/32/8545_2.png) [@asharif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asharif)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-2-2-and-http-delete-api/44637/1 "2016-03-17T00:12:55Z")

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curl -XDELETE "localhost:9200/{index}/{type}/\_query?q={k}:{v}"

use to delete documents from the index that matched the query. I tried this on 2.2 and it doesn't work. I tried to find it in the documentation and could not. Has it changed? How can I delete documents by a query?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-2-2-and-http-delete-api/44637/2 "2016-03-17T01:09:47Z")

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Here you are [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.2/breaking\_20\_removed\_features.html#\_delete\_by\_query\_is\_now\_a\_plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.2/breaking_20_removed_features.html#_delete_by_query_is_now_a_plugin)

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**Author:** ![asharif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/asharif/32/8545_2.png) [@asharif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asharif)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-2-2-and-http-delete-api/44637/3 "2016-03-17T15:47:46Z")

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Thank you very much!

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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, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-2-2-and-http-delete-api/44637/4 "2017-07-05T23:07:33Z")

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