# Get surrounding documents vía API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-surrounding-documents-via-api/224622
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-surrounding-documents-via-api/224622 "2020-03-23T08:27:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@elasticUser5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticUser5)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-surrounding-documents-via-api/224622/1 "2020-03-23T08:27:25Z")
Hello!
Is there any way to replicate "Surrounding Documents" function from Kibana but via API?
I'm trying different ways, but none is working (span\_near, scroll API...).
Any help is appreciated!
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### Author:  [@markov00](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markov00)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-surrounding-documents-via-api/224622/2 "2020-03-23T12:23:58Z")
Hi @elasticUser5
If you take a look at that Kibana do when requesting the surrounding documents, you can find that we are doing 3 searches:
1. get the specific document
2. get a max of 5 documents that are 1 day older then the date of the retrieved document at (1)
3. get a max o 5 documents that are 1 day after then the date of the retrieved document at (1)
remember to sort the documents request by the timestamp to get them in the correct order and use the [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-search-after](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-search-after)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-surrounding-documents-via-api/224622/3 "2020-04-20T12:24:14Z")
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