# Elasticsearch 2.3.3 Scroll result doesnt deliver hits
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-scroll-result-doesnt-deliver-hits/53447
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 21, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-scroll-result-doesnt-deliver-hits/53447 "2016-06-21T07:49:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@michaelzollmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaelzollmann)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-scroll-result-doesnt-deliver-hits/53447/1 "2016-06-21T07:49:08Z")
I am using elasticsearch 2.3.3. I have indexed 3 documents which i want to scroll.
To get a scrollId i send:
curl -XGET 'localhost:8082/entities\_alias/entity/\_search?scroll=1m&pretty' -d '
{
"query": {
"match\_all": {}
}
}
'
which returns me a scrollId and my 3 hits
{
"\_scroll\_id" : "cXVlcnlUaGVuRmV0Y2g7NTsyNjo1dTNEWk55TlJONjgwX1FBY2s1VlZ3OzI4OjV1M0RaTnlOUk42ODBfUUFjazVWVnc7Mjc6NXUzRFpOeU5STjY4MF9RQWNrNVZWdzszMDo1dTNEWk55TlJONjgwX1FBY2s1VlZ3OzI5OjV1M0RaTnlOUk42ODBfUUFjazVWVnc7MDs=",
"took" : 3,
"timed\_out" : false,
"\_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 3,
"max\_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
"\_index" : "entities",
"\_type" : "entity",
"\_id" : "PIRlWdgfNrzHUNhA",
"\_score" : 1.0,
"\_source" : {
"id" : "PIRlWdgfNrzHUNhA",
"parent\_id" : null,
"contentmodel\_id" : "level1", ...
...
Then i try to scroll by calling
curl -XGET 'localhost:8082/\_search/scroll' -d'
{
"scroll" : "1m",
"scroll\_id" : "cXVlcnlUaGVuRmV0Y2g7NTsyNjo1dTNEWk55TlJONjgwX1FBY2s1VlZ3OzI4OjV1M0RaTnlOUk42ODBfUUFjazVWVnc7Mjc6NXUzRFpOeU5STjY4MF9RQWNrNVZWdzszMDo1dTNEWk55TlJONjgwX1FBY2s1VlZ3OzI5OjV1M0RaTnlOUk42ODBfUUFjazVWVnc7MDs="
}
'
which returns me
{
"\_scroll\_id" : "cXVlcnlUaGVuRmV0Y2g7NTsyNjo1dTNEWk55TlJONjgwX1FBY2s1VlZ3OzI4OjV1M0RaTnlOUk42ODBfUUFjazVWVnc7Mjc6NXUzRFpOeU5STjY4MF9RQWNrNVZWdzszMDo1dTNEWk55TlJONjgwX1FBY2s1VlZ3OzI5OjV1M0RaTnlOUk42ODBfUUFjazVWVnc7MDs=",
"took" : 2,
"timed\_out" : false,
"terminated\_early" : false,
"\_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 3,
"max\_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : []
}
}
So totalHits is 3 but hits[] is empty. How can i get the Hits for my scroll?
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-scroll-result-doesnt-deliver-hits/53447/2 "2016-06-21T16:21:31Z")
The first search request will return a scroll\_id and a set of hits. Since you only have 3 documents, they are all returned in the first search. A second call to the scroll API with that scroll\_id will return blank, since the scroll cursors were exhausted in the first call.
If you index a lot more documents, you'll be able to see how the scrolling behavior works past the first page.
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### Author:  [@michaelzollmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaelzollmann)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-scroll-result-doesnt-deliver-hits/53447/3 "2016-06-22T08:27:19Z")
Ah, now i understand. Thanks a lot for your help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-scroll-result-doesnt-deliver-hits/53447/4 "2017-07-05T22:41:28Z")