# How to retrieve just certain amount of docs from a larger query?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-retrieve-just-certain-amount-of-docs-from-a-larger-query/17778
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 28, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-retrieve-just-certain-amount-of-docs-from-a-larger-query/17778 "2014-05-28T11:42:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Tom\_4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tom_4)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-retrieve-just-certain-amount-of-docs-from-a-larger-query/17778/1 "2014-05-28T11:42:07Z")
Hi,
i need to fire a query against larger amount of docs (100.000)
I just need to get back \_id under a certain soerting and therefore using
\_source filter false, so there is no overhead by gettings \_source data.
Nevertheless the response and response processing of course takes a while
caused by the large amount.
Question: Is there a way to to do something like "execute the query, but
just give me the 10 docs before and 10 docs after a certain doc identified
by id" ?
Thx in advance,
Tom
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-retrieve-just-certain-amount-of-docs-from-a-larger-query/17778/2 "2014-05-28T13:35:05Z")
Look into the scan/scroll query
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It works like a cursor that iterates through all docs of a query result
Jörg
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Tom [t.oppelt@superreal.de](mailto:t.oppelt@superreal.de) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i need to fire a query against larger amount of docs (100.000)
> I just need to get back \_id under a certain soerting and therefore using
> \_source filter false, so there is no overhead by gettings \_source data.
> Nevertheless the response and response processing of course takes a while
> caused by the large amount.
>
> Question: Is there a way to to do something like "execute the query, but
> just give me the 10 docs before and 10 docs after a certain doc identified
> by id" ?
>
> Thx in advance,
> Tom
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-retrieve-just-certain-amount-of-docs-from-a-larger-query/17778/3 "2017-07-06T01:26:19Z")