# Get document and term frequency for a term across all documents

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-document-and-term-frequency-for-a-term-across-all-documents/196837
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-document-and-term-frequency-for-a-term-across-all-documents/196837 "2019-08-26T20:00:43Z")
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### Author: ![peidaqi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@peidaqi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/peidaqi)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-document-and-term-frequency-for-a-term-across-all-documents/196837/1 "2019-08-26T20:00:43Z")

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Is there a way to get document and term frequency for a given term across all documents? The termvectors API seems only return data for a single/a set of documents.

Furthermore, is it possible to get positions and documents list for a given term?

Thanks!

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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: [September 23, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-document-and-term-frequency-for-a-term-across-all-documents/196837/2 "2019-09-23T20:00:45Z")

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