# Elasticsearch document update and insertio using update api

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-update-and-insertio-using-update-api/326401>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-update-and-insertio-using-update-api/326401 "2023-02-24T05:20:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![murli\_krishna](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/murli_krishna/32/117695_2.png) [@murli\_krishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/murli_krishna)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-update-and-insertio-using-update-api/326401/1 "2023-02-24T05:20:58Z")

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I want to ingest data using Python code, and if data is already available, I just want to update it with the given document for that ID. So far, I have tried this.  
Using Elasticsearch 8.6.1

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```auto
import elasticsearch 
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
###############################
Initialization
###############################
es = Elasticsearch("http://localhost:9200")
print(Elasticsearch.info(es))

## I have created an index with two fields one is name & class just to test

## already inserted data is :-1: 
1.name:"murli",class:"abc"
2.name:"omi",class:"yup"
3.name:"abhi"

# defining a dictionary with key value pair and inserting it into es if data id exist it will update it but if not found it ill create it .
#So i just want to know is this approach is write or not. 
a = {"name":"shanks"}
body = {
    "doc":{ a,},"doc_as_upsert" :True
  }

status = es.update(index="image_text",body=body,id=4)
print(status)

```

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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:** [March 24, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-update-and-insertio-using-update-api/326401/2 "2023-03-24T05:21:27Z")

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