# Getting fixed number of results using multi search API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 6, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839 "2018-07-06T07:38:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![rs123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rs123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rs123)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/1 "2018-07-06T07:38:28Z")

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Is it possible to get fixed number of results from each index searched? For example if `it1`, `it2` and `it3` are three different indexes and I want 6 results from `it1`, 4 results from `it2` and 5 from `it3`. And I want only these 15 results to be send back to requested source in JSON object document.  
I'm using multi search API with context suggester as:

> GET \_msearch  
> {"index":"it1","type":"\_doc"}  
> {"suggest":{"suggestion":{"prefix":"ekt","completion":{"field":"suggest","fuzzy":{"fuzziness":2}}}}}  
> {"index":"it2","type":"\_doc"}  
> {"suggest":{"suggestion":{"prefix":"ekt","completion":{"field":"suggest","fuzzy":{"fuzziness":2}}}}}  
> {"index":"it3","type":"\_doc"}  
> {"suggest":{"suggestion":{"prefix":"ekt","completion":{"field":"suggest","fuzzy":{"fuzziness":2}}}}}

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**Author:** ![rs123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rs123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rs123)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/2 "2018-07-06T10:21:13Z")

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@dadoonet Sir?

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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:** [July 6, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/3 "2018-07-06T10:46:40Z")

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Read [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21) and specifically the "Also be patient" part.

It's fine to answer on your own thread after 2 or 3 days (not including weekends) if you don't have an answer.

Also don't ping people who are not yet part of the discussion.

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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:** [July 6, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/4 "2018-07-06T16:31:20Z")

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Multi Search API allows you to pass multiple search requests.

A search request can set the `size` parameter, so I guess you can add this to every request?

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**Author:** ![rs123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rs123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rs123)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/5 "2018-07-07T17:31:06Z")

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Is default `size` value is 5?

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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:** [July 7, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/6 "2018-07-07T18:35:35Z")

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No. It's 10.

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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:** [August 4, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-fixed-number-of-results-using-multi-search-api/138839/7 "2018-08-04T18:38:27Z")

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