# How to get the file size of document what you search **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 6, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-file-size-of-document-what-you-search/151290 "2018-10-06T01:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iamazy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamazy/32/36501_2.png) [@iamazy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamazy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-file-size-of-document-what-you-search/151290/1 "2018-10-06T01:38:55Z")
I want to get the file size of result what i search for，how to write the dsl for it. ---
**Author:** ![andrx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrx/32/35028_2.png) [@andrx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrx)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-file-size-of-document-what-you-search/151290/2 "2018-10-06T02:38:18Z")
what do you mean by "file size"? how many bytes the response from ES is (for example http response from ES API)? ---
**Author:** ![iamazy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamazy/32/36501_2.png) [@iamazy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamazy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-file-size-of-document-what-you-search/151290/3 "2018-10-14T02:23:58Z")
i mean the disk space occupied by document what you search，for example search 10000 document may be take up 10m disk space。 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-file-size-of-document-what-you-search/151290/4 "2018-11-11T02:24:02Z")
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