# Get termvectors in search result

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-termvectors-in-search-result/62508
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 7, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-termvectors-in-search-result/62508 "2016-10-07T16:22:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Joomler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Joomler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joomler)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-termvectors-in-search-result/62508/1 "2016-10-07T16:22:11Z")

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I am trying to get termvectors in search result:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.7/docs-termvectors.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.7/docs-termvectors.html)

I need to know for every result text what words it consist from search query. How?  
(also cannot get this for python connector to elasticsearch [https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/v2.5.0/](https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/v2.5.0/))

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### Author: ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-termvectors-in-search-result/62508/2 "2016-11-18T18:08:23Z")

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You could call the term vectors API on every hit of the search response?

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### Author: ![Joomler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Joomler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joomler)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-termvectors-in-search-result/62508/3 "2016-11-18T19:41:11Z")

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Yes  
the question is: can such approach be more fast/stable than parsing highlight string in Python code?  
Need testing i think

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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: [July 5, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-termvectors-in-search-result/62508/4 "2017-07-05T22:05:35Z")

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