# How to Filter the serach in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-the-serach-in-elasticsearch/16558>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 24, 2014, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-the-serach-in-elasticsearch/16558 "2014-03-24T08:54:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahesh\_Chary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mahesh\_Chary](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mahesh_Chary)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-the-serach-in-elasticsearch/16558/1 "2014-03-24T08:54:40Z")

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Hi ,  
i have some indexed fields like: { text:some text, id:123,  
author:mahesh },{ text:some text, id:124, author:rajesh }.........{},i  
want to search a "word" from the object where author is mahesh not in other  
objects by elasticsearch using node ...please help me how to prepare a  
query object.

currently i am using this query which returns matches from all indexed  
fields but i want to search a keyword in a particular author

query:

{"query" : {  
term:{text:"grade"}  
}

}

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**Author:** ![Herbert\_Bodner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a4c791/32.png) [@Herbert\_Bodner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Herbert_Bodner)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-the-serach-in-elasticsearch/16558/2 "2014-03-24T09:15:57Z")

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You need a Filter query in conjunction the query, see:

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something like this, Though, I am not sure, if this is entirely correct,  
but you get the idea:

{  
"filtered" : {  
"query" : {  
"term" : { "author" : "myauthor" }  
},  
"filter" : {  
"term" : {  
"text" : "grade" }  
}  
}  
}  
}

On Monday, March 24, 2014 9:54:40 AM UTC+1, Mahesh Chary wrote:

> Hi ,  
> i have some indexed fields like: { text:some text, id:123,  
> author:mahesh },{ text:some text, id:124, author:rajesh }.........{},i  
> want to search a "word" from the object where author is mahesh not in other  
> objects by elasticsearch using node ...please help me how to prepare a  
> query object.
> 
> currently i am using this query which returns matches from all indexed  
> fields but i want to search a keyword in a particular author
> 
> query:
> 
> {"query" : {  
> term:{text:"grade"}  
> }
> 
> }

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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, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filter-the-serach-in-elasticsearch/16558/3 "2017-07-06T01:41:13Z")

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