# How can I see the version number of an indexed document when searching?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-see-the-version-number-of-an-indexed-document-when-searching/12011
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 17, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-see-the-version-number-of-an-indexed-document-when-searching/12011 "2013-05-17T12:26:42Z")
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### Author:  [@svandenborne](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svandenborne)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-see-the-version-number-of-an-indexed-document-when-searching/12011/1 "2013-05-17T12:26:42Z")
Hi,
How can I see the version number of an indexed document when searching?
e.g. the result in
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/\_search](http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_search)' -d '{
"query" :{"match\_all": {} } }'
does not contain the version number?
I'm using elasticsearch version 0.20.4
Thanks!
Sandy
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### Author:  [@brian\_yoder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brian_yoder)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-see-the-version-number-of-an-indexed-document-when-searching/12011/2 "2013-05-17T12:31:31Z")
Ask it to return the version. For example:
{
"from" : 0,
"size" : 20,
"query" : {
"match" : {
"words" : {
"query" : "doctor",
"type" : "boolean"
}
}
},
_"version" : true_,
"explain" : false,
"fields" : ["\_ttl", "\_source"]
}
Hope this helps!
(Note: I also as it to return the \_ttl and \_source fields. ES normally
returns the \_source, but if you explicitly ask it for another field then
you also need to explicitly ask it for \_source too.)
Regards,
Brian
On Friday, May 17, 2013 8:26:42 AM UTC-4, Sandy Van den Borne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I see the version number of an indexed document when searching?
>
> e.g. the result in
>
> curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/\_search](http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_search)' -d '{
> "query" :{"match\_all": {} } }'
>
> does not contain the version number?
>
> I'm using elasticsearch version 0.20.4
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sandy
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-see-the-version-number-of-an-indexed-document-when-searching/12011/3 "2017-07-06T02:36:03Z")