# How to specify time range in URI query?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539 "2016-09-01T11:14:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![zpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/54ee81/32.png) [@zpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zpp)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539/1 "2016-09-01T11:14:55Z")

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Hi,  
I need to use URI type of query string format (not the -d json type), and I need to specify the time range in the search string, but not sure how.

this works nicely:  
curl -s -XGET ".../logstash-\*/\_search?size=5&q=metrictype:os+fields:datetime,cpu,disk"

after adding in the time, it failed:  
curl -s -XGET '.../logstash-\*/\_search?q=metrictype:os+datetime:["2016-08-30 10:00:00" to "2016-08-30 10:30:00"]+fields:datetime,cpu,disk'

or  
curl -s -XGET ".../logstash-\*/\_search?q=metrictype:os+datetime:["2016-08-30 10:00:00" to "2016-08-30 10:30:00"]+fields:datetime,cpu,disk"

Anyone has a working example? Thanks a lot!

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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: [September 1, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539/2 "2016-09-01T11:39:46Z")

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You need to use `TO` instead of `to`.

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### Author: ![zpp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/54ee81/32.png) [@zpp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zpp)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539/3 "2016-09-02T01:48:19Z")

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Thank you David.  
I made a few changes to make the command work:

1. change to to TO
2. use curl with -g option as suggested by some online article
3. use below format for the time range, both works  
datetime:["2016-09-02T09:00:00"+TO+"2016-09-02T09:15:00"]  
datetime:[1472778000+TO+1472778900]

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### Author: ![1222kkk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/1222kkk/32/23635_2.png) [@1222kkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/1222kkk)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539/4 "2016-09-02T02:37:26Z")

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May be the format is "string" but not "date" as you can't search them.

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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 5, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-specify-time-range-in-uri-query/59539/5 "2017-07-05T22:23:03Z")

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