# Elasticsearch search unlimited

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-unlimited/101274>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 21, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-unlimited/101274 "2017-09-21T06:53:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![vasanth1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@vasanth1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vasanth1)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-unlimited/101274/1 "2017-09-21T06:53:26Z")

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Hi i am new to elastic. im using elastic search with chewy gem in ruby on rails.and how to increase the search limit into unlimited?now im getting only 10 results.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-unlimited/101274/2 "2017-09-21T07:05:38Z")

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You can't.

At most by default you can get back the first 10000 hits.  
You probably have a size and from parameters in the ruby client.

If you want to extract all data, then you need to use the scroll API. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/search-request-scroll.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/search-request-scroll.html)

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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:** [October 19, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-unlimited/101274/3 "2017-10-19T07:05:41Z")

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