# Get every n-th result ordered by date
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-n-th-result-ordered-by-date/21770
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 22, 2015, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-n-th-result-ordered-by-date/21770 "2015-01-22T08:43:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Timo\_Schmidt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Timo_Schmidt)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2015, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-n-th-result-ordered-by-date/21770/1 "2015-01-22T08:43:31Z")
Hello together,
i have the following use case:
1. Let's say i have 1000 Documents in my index.
2. I want to sort them by date
3. And just have every n-th document (modulo) in my response
Is this somehow possible? I thried to implement a native plugin, with a as
a script filter in the post filter but i could not figure out, how to
access the position in the resultset.
Any other ideads?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-every-n-th-result-ordered-by-date/21770/2 "2017-07-06T00:37:19Z")