# How can I get the document meta data after saving a document in elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 9, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668 "2023-10-09T14:11:50Z")
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### Author:  [@Mertozturkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mertozturkk)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/1 "2023-10-09T14:11:50Z")
I am saving documents to an index in Elasticsearch using the bulk API in a Python project. However, what I need is how can I return the created id of the document after this process?
```auto
success, failed = bulk(client, actions, refresh=True)
result = {
"success_count": success,
"failed_count": len(failed),
"success_data": actions if success == len(actions) else [],
"failed_data": failed
}
```
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/2 "2023-10-10T08:42:35Z")
Hi @Mertozturkk,
Wwlcome to the community! Have you checked the response body of the build request?
Looking at the [bulk API documentation there is an items collection](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html#bulk-api-response-body) in the response where the impacted document id for each action is included.
Can you take a look and see if you can extract that from the response?
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### Author:  [@Mertozturkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mertozturkk)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/3 "2023-10-10T09:10:33Z")
Yes, the information in the documentation is exactly what I need. However, when I run the code on the source code side in the Python library, what I see is that the data I need remains in the code and it only returns me the number of successful operations. If there is nothing else I missed about this, I will create a solution by contributing to the source code.
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### Author:  [@Mertozturkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mertozturkk)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/4 "2023-10-10T19:38:32Z")
Actually, the information I want is in the item in the source code, but I cannot solve the problem because it is not returned, how can I proceed? I wanted to open a PR, I can get the information with a simple method, but I think there is a process that takes a little longer in the background.
```auto
success, failed = 0, 0
# list of errors to be collected is not stats_only
errors = []
# make streaming_bulk yield successful results so we can count them
kwargs["yield_ok"] = True
for ok, item in streaming_bulk(
client, actions, ignore_status=ignore_status, *args, **kwargs # type: ignore[misc]
):
# go through request-response pairs and detect failures
if not ok:
if not stats_only:
errors.append(item)
failed += 1
else:
success += 1
return success, failed if stats_only else errors
```
Elasticsearch version (8.10.0):
elasticsearch-py version (8.10.0):
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### Author:  [@iulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iulia)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/5 "2023-10-11T17:51:07Z")
You can get the IDs as you bulk index documents:
```auto
for ok, document in streaming_bulk(client, actions=actions, index="test-index"):
print(document["index"]["_id"])
```
Alternatively, you can specify the IDs you want for the documents yourself so you don't have to retrieve them after the fact. Here's an example of that with a custom iterable function:
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### Author:  [@Mertozturkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mertozturkk)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/6 "2023-10-11T18:09:34Z")
Thank you, I missed the values that streaming bulk returns, this will make my job easier.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-get-the-document-meta-data-after-saving-a-document-in-elasticsearch/344668/7 "2023-11-08T18:09:46Z")
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