How to fetch data from elasticsearch based on stored field(date)

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I am using java REST client api to fetch data from elasticsearch. Here i am fetching data based on id ie, "twitter/tweet/1", but i want to retrieve all the the records for the given date. is there any way to filter it?

2

This?

GET _search
{
    "query": {
        "range" : {
            "created_at" : {
                "gte": "01/01/2017"
            }
        }
    }
}