# How to enumerate all terms in an index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enumerate-all-terms-in-an-index/8736>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 14, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enumerate-all-terms-in-an-index/8736 "2012-08-14T03:29:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Jain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eric_jain/32/834_2.png) [@Eric\_Jain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Jain)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enumerate-all-terms-in-an-index/8736/1 "2012-08-14T03:29:33Z")

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This is simple enough with Lucene (IndexReader.terms); does Elasticsearch  
expose anything like that?

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enumerate-all-terms-in-an-index/8736/2 "2012-08-14T04:58:55Z")

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Take a look at Jörg's Termlist plugin:

> **[GitHub - jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist: Elasticsearch Index Termlist](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist)**
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> Elasticsearch Index Termlist. Contribute to jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist development by creating an account on GitHub.

The equivalent Lucene code is found here:  
[https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/termlist/TransportTermlistAction.java#L126](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/termlist/TransportTermlistAction.java#L126)

Cheers,

Ivan

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Eric Jain [eric.jain@gmail.com](mailto:eric.jain@gmail.com) wrote:

> This is simple enough with Lucene (IndexReader.terms); does Elasticsearch  
> expose anything like that?
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Jain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eric_jain/32/834_2.png) [@Eric\_Jain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Jain)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enumerate-all-terms-in-an-index/8736/3 "2012-08-14T18:13:40Z")

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:

> Take a look at Jörg's Termlist plugin:  
> [GitHub - jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist: Elasticsearch Index Termlist](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist)

Thanks, that's just what I was looking for.

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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 6, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enumerate-all-terms-in-an-index/8736/4 "2017-07-06T03:16:24Z")

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