# Explain API parsing and displaying tools
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-api-parsing-and-displaying-tools/326677
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-api-parsing-and-displaying-tools/326677 "2023-02-28T10:15:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Eylon\_Koren1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eylon_Koren1)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-api-parsing-and-displaying-tools/326677/1 "2023-02-28T10:15:11Z")
Hey !
I'm using the [Elasticsearch Explain API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/search-explain.html#search-explain-api-request-body) in order to understand the ES internal scoring.
The explain results is complex json, which i extract the impact of each field on the query overall score.
Are there any tools which help parse and display the Explain API output?
Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-api-parsing-and-displaying-tools/326677/2 "2023-02-28T11:35:18Z")
> [@Eylon\_Koren1](#):
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> Are there any tools which help parse and display the Explain API output?
There is nothing from elastic, but any tool that you can use to analyse json will work.
Normally I'm on terminal and I use `jq` to parse the json or the json crack extension on vs code.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-api-parsing-and-displaying-tools/326677/3 "2023-03-28T11:35:34Z")
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