# Getting document by document id

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 7, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806 "2015-10-07T22:06:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mramaprasad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mramaprasad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mramaprasad)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806/1 "2015-10-07T22:06:27Z")

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I have an indexed documents to elastic search with "/" (like 13.89/sdc.2002.10009) as doc id. When I try to get by id

curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/csv1/testl/13.89/sdc.2002.10009](http://localhost:9200/csv1/testl/13.89/sdc.2002.10009)'  
Gives me error No handler found for uri [...

How do we get doumnets by id for these documents?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806/2 "2015-10-07T22:24:01Z")

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Try to encode / with %xx (i don't recall what xx should be).

Might work but unsure...

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806/3 "2015-10-07T22:24:17Z")

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Or try escaping the last backslash - `curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/csv1/testl/13.89\/sdc.2002.10009'`

Ideally though, that's not a char you should be using in an ID.

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**Author:** ![mramaprasad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mramaprasad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mramaprasad)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806/4 "2015-10-07T23:07:39Z")

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Encoding with %2F worked. Thanks for all the responses.

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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, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-document-by-document-id/31806/5 "2017-07-05T23:46:01Z")

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