# How to filter specific field from elastic search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-specific-field-from-elastic-search/113141
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 25, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-specific-field-from-elastic-search/113141 "2017-12-25T10:09:08Z")
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### Author: ![muthu\_kutty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@muthu\_kutty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muthu_kutty)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-specific-field-from-elastic-search/113141/1 "2017-12-25T10:09:09Z")

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Is it possible to filter only specific field not full documents from elastic search.

sample data.

{  
"took": 65,  
"timed\_out": false,  
"\_shards": {  
"total": 5,  
"successful": 5,  
"skipped": 0,  
"failed": 0  
},  
"hits": {  
"total": 1,  
"max\_score": 4.89784,  
"hits": [  
{  
"\_index": "mytest",  
"\_type": "bank",  
"\_id": "1",  
"\_score": 4.89784,  
"\_source": {  
"account\_number": 1,  
"balance": 39225,  
"firstname": "Amber",  
"lastname": "Duke",  
"age": 32,  
"gender": "M",  
"address": "880 Holmes Lane",  
"employer": "Pyrami",  
"email": "amberduke@pyrami.com",  
"city": "Brogan",  
"state": "IL"  
}  
}  
]  
}  
expected data.

{  
[  
{  
"account\_number": 1,  
"balance": 39225,  
}  
]  
}

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-specific-field-from-elastic-search/113141/2 "2017-12-25T15:53:21Z")

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You should be able to achieve this through [source filtering](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/search-request-source-filtering.html).

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### Author: ![muthu\_kutty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@muthu\_kutty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muthu_kutty)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-specific-field-from-elastic-search/113141/3 "2017-12-30T09:17:54Z")

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Thanks Christian\_Dahlqvist, i will check..

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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: [January 27, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-specific-field-from-elastic-search/113141/4 "2018-01-27T09:18:08Z")

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