# How to use rest to display all the available indices?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156 "2019-08-28T15:32:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Bob94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob94)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156/1 "2019-08-28T15:32:56Z")
Hi
Is there any way to list out all the indices by using rest api and java ?
Some tutorial and example is really appreciated!
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156/2 "2019-08-28T15:45:39Z")
use the \_cat/indices API [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-indices.html)
Example verbose sort by index name
`curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v&s=index`
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### Author:  [@Bob94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob94)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156/3 "2019-08-28T16:12:46Z")
Hi stephen,
Yes for this curl and cat usage i know already, but i was having some confusion on hownto implement it on java code ?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156/4 "2019-08-28T16:35:26Z")
Apologies I missed that .... yes does not appear there is a direct Java API mapping to the `_cat` APIs but I believe you can do something like this
```auto
client.admin().indices()
.getIndex(new GetIndexRequest())
.actionGet().getIndices();
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-rest-to-display-all-the-available-indices/197156/5 "2019-09-25T16:35:35Z")
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