# Feature Request - Transform devtools console output

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-transform-devtools-console-output/114096>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 4, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-transform-devtools-console-output/114096 "2018-01-04T13:44:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Blackwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chris_blackwell/32/4786_2.png) [@Chris\_Blackwell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Blackwell)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-transform-devtools-console-output/114096/1 "2018-01-04T13:44:03Z")

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I'm often asked for ad-hoc queries that ES answers really quickly, but I end up needing to do some kind of transform on the documents or aggs. I do this with jq, and if its a one time deal often just by pasting the output json into [https://jqplay.org/](https://jqplay.org/) and writing the tranform there.

It would be great if devtools provided a way to enter a transformation for the query response directly. Maybe by extending the query definition syntax with a pipe operator.

e.g say I just need a list of id's from an index

```
GET /my-index-2017-01-01/_search
{
 _source: "",
 size: 1000,
 query: { ... }
} | .hits.hits[]._id
```

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-transform-devtools-console-output/114096/2 "2018-01-04T15:56:19Z")

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HI Chris,

This would be a great feature request. I suggest you to open one here , as you would get updates on it if someone takes a look:

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Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Blackwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chris_blackwell/32/4786_2.png) [@Chris\_Blackwell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Blackwell)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-transform-devtools-console-output/114096/3 "2018-01-04T17:46:10Z")

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done - [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/15850](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/15850)

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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:** [February 1, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-transform-devtools-console-output/114096/4 "2018-02-01T17:46:14Z")

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Closed on February 1, 2018, 5:46pm UTC

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