# Highlight query in URI

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-in-uri/263543>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 8, 2021, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-in-uri/263543 "2021-02-08T05:42:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikram\_singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikram_singh/32/66490_2.png) [@vikram\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikram_singh)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-in-uri/263543/1 "2021-02-08T05:42:50Z")

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Hi,

I want to use highlight in URI query.  
Ex. `http://myservername.com:9200/myindex/_search?q=myfieldname:searchvalue&highlight=myfieldname`

But this is not working.  
I want to use URI search with highlight but not get any reference of it.

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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:** [February 8, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-in-uri/263543/2 "2021-02-08T08:40:07Z")

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I don't see it supported in the documentation.

> **[Search API | Elasticsearch Reference \[7.10\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.10/search-search.html)**

Use the body instead.

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**Author:** ![vikram\_singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikram_singh/32/66490_2.png) [@vikram\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikram_singh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-in-uri/263543/3 "2021-02-16T13:39:11Z")

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Hi,

Got it, Highlight is not supported in URI.  
Except highlight can we use URI based search for a complex search like bool query (must, must\_not, should), filter and other conditions without passing a complete json in URI.  
For example below URI

`https://www.elastic.co/search?q=filter&size=n_20_n&filters%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=website_area&filters%5B0%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B0%5D=blog&filters%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=all&sort-field=published_at&sort-direction=desc`

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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:** [March 16, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-in-uri/263543/4 "2021-03-16T13:39:28Z")

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