# Executing kibana saved searches programatically?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410 "2016-06-10T06:33:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Shrikanth\_N\_C](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shrikanth_N_C)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410/1 "2016-06-10T06:33:35Z")
Will be happy to know if there are any direct ways or workarounds to make a REST call programatically to fetch the list of saved searches in kibana and to execute them as well ?
---
### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410/2 "2016-06-10T06:40:10Z")
All data for Kibana is stored in the Elasticsearch `.kibana` index. You can use the Elasticsearch API to fetch the data. For example: `http://localhost:9200/.kibana/search/_search?pretty=true&q=*` will display all saved searches.
Within the response, `searchSourceJSON` is a JSON encoded object from which you can use the `index` and `query` to then query Elasticsearch directly.
---
### Author:  [@Shrikanth\_N\_C](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shrikanth_N_C)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410/3 "2016-06-10T06:47:54Z")
> [@tsmalley](#):
>
> searchSourceJSON
Thank you for the spontaneous reply, very helpful.
Just wanted to know more clarity on the executing part.
Is there any way to execute a particular saved search through a GET rest call by passing the saved search title ?
If not can you comment on how do I frame a POST request that can be sent to ES for a json response ?
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410/4 "2017-07-06T13:50:51Z")