ERROR Delete_snapshot action fails, get() takes at least 2 arguments (2 given)

[codenamekazmi (Ali Syed)]

This is a similar issue to Delete_snapshot action fails, get() takes at least 2 arguments (2 given). This issue was closed without a resolution. I am running into a similar issue.

Running elasticsearch version 6.83, verified in my DEBUG log as well:
Detected Elasticsearch version 6.8.3

Running curator version 5.8.0 in a docker container running alpine linux and using pip to install elasticsearch-curator.

/usr/share/curator # /usr/bin/curator --version
curator, version 5.8.0

Action file:

actions:
  1:
    action: delete_snapshots
    description: >-
      Delete snapshots from the search cluster repository older than 1 week
      (based on creation_date).
    options:
      repository: s3-backup
      timeout_override: 21600
      continue_if_exception: False
      ignore_empty_list: True
      disable_action: False
    filters:
    - filtertype: age
      source: creation_date
      direction: older
      unit: weeks
      unit_count: 1
      exclude:

Error:

ERROR                curator.cli                    run:213  Failed to complete action: delete_snapshots.  <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: get() takes at least 2 arguments (2 given)

[theuntergeek (Aaron Mildenstein)]

This is a known error because of a change in the elasticsearch python module which will be fixed shortly. You can fix it in the meanwhile by pinning elasticsearch==7.1.0

Pinning 7.1.0 elasticsearch-py module