# How to delete particular document from multiple indices in elasticsearch using python?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584 "2018-01-23T04:21:16Z")
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### Author:  [@akashtalole](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akashtalole)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584/1 "2018-01-23T04:21:16Z")
Here is sample document.
```
{
"_index": "mqtt-index-2018.01.22",
"_type": "iot_data",
"_id": "AHWewerdfdfdfdfRTRRfdfgf",
"_score": 1,
"_source": {
"message": "{\"datastream_name\": \"teststream1\", \"value\": 2, \"context\": {\"latitude\": 0,
\"elevation\": 0, \"longitude\": 0}, \"device_id\": 15}",
"@version": "1",
"@timestamp": "2018-01-22T11:47:52.175Z",
"host": "iot-elk",
"topic": "telemetry/df42e78206d946a3a2863d167af9063b/teststream1",
"parsedMessage": {
"datastream_name": "teststream1",
"value": 2,
"context": {
"latitude": 0,
"elevation": 0,
"longitude": 0
},
"device_id": 15,
"tstamp": "2018-01-22T11:47:52.175Z"
}
},
"fields": {
"parsedMessage.tstamp": [
1516621672175
],
"@timestamp": [
1516621672175
]
}
}
```
I want to delete document using parsedMessage.device\_id. how to delete it using python client?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584/2 "2018-01-23T07:24:39Z")
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You can use delete by query feature but I don't know how you call it from python.
Easier may be to do that in Kibana Dev Console.
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### Author:  [@akashtalole](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akashtalole)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584/3 "2018-01-24T10:04:33Z")
It works. Deleting document from multiple indices in elasticsearch using following DELETE API call.
```
curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/mqtt-index-*/logs/_query' -d '{
"query" : {
"match" : {"device_id": 31}
}
}' -i
```
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### Author:  [@akashtalole](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akashtalole)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584/4 "2018-01-24T10:05:22Z")
You can also delete documents with matching multiple fields.
```
curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/mqtt-index-*/logs/_query' -d '{
"query" : {
"bool": {
"must":[
{"match" : {"device_id":31}},
{"match": {"datastream_name": "test"}}
]
}
}' -i
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-particular-document-from-multiple-indices-in-elasticsearch-using-python/116584/5 "2018-02-21T10:05:36Z")
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