# How can i write search script in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-write-search-script-in-elasticsearch/38986>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-write-search-script-in-elasticsearch/38986 "2016-01-12T13:58:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arayik\_Yervandyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Arayik\_Yervandyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arayik_Yervandyan)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-write-search-script-in-elasticsearch/38986/1 "2016-01-12T13:58:26Z")

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I must to write a script in groovy that will search in elasticsearch . For example i must to return the documents where the sin(something) = id .

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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:** [January 14, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-write-search-script-in-elasticsearch/38986/2 "2016-01-14T07:04:08Z")

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Have you read [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.1/modules-scripting.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.1/modules-scripting.html)?

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**Author:** ![Arayik\_Yervandyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Arayik\_Yervandyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arayik_Yervandyan)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-write-search-script-in-elasticsearch/38986/3 "2016-01-14T07:29:57Z")

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Yes i read that. But i can't find a good api docs for scripting in elasticsearch .

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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, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-write-search-script-in-elasticsearch/38986/4 "2017-07-05T23:24:41Z")

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