# How to get Distinct results using Search API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336217>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 16, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336217 "2023-06-16T12:11:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![asimelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@asimelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asimelastic)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336217/1 "2023-06-16T12:11:33Z")

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I have a "customer" index with fields "FirstName" and "LastName".

My index contains data as follows:  
First Name | LastName  
Richard | Lockwood  
Richard | Lockwood 2  
Richard | Lockwood 3  
Richard | Lockwood 4  
Richard | Lockwood 5  
Richard | Lockwood 6

[https://192.1.2.3:9200/customer/\_search?pretty&q=FirstName:Richard](https://192.1.2.3:9200/customer/_search?pretty&q=FirstName:Richard)

Will return 6 records, I want to return distinct records based on FirstName, which will return only one record. How can I do this?

Advance thanks for the response!

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**Author:** ![RabBit\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rabbit_br/32/82261_2.png) [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336217/2 "2023-06-16T17:43:45Z")

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Hi @asimelastic

You can use [Collapse search results](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/collapse-search-results.html).

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**Author:** ![asimelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@asimelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asimelastic)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336217/3 "2023-06-20T07:03:08Z")

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@RabBit_BR Thank you so much for the reply.

I have found the solution and right approach to achieve this is using aggregations [Aggregations | Elasticsearch Guide [8.8] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations.html)

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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 18, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336217/4 "2023-07-18T07:04:05Z")

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