# How to make use of \_meta when using search API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-use-of-meta-when-using-search-api/121920>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 28, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-use-of-meta-when-using-search-api/121920 "2018-02-28T18:48:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-use-of-meta-when-using-search-api/121920/11 "2018-03-22T11:07:41Z")

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I don't understand the relationship between the original question and this question:

> is there any other way to archive a single search on a great number of indices

> wildcards won't do I'm affraid

Searching for

```auto
GET foo*/_search

```

is fine.

It's unclear to me what you are trying to achieve here.

Could you provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

A full reproduction script will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem. It will also most likely help to get a faster answer.

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