# Is it possible to specify search analyzer in python elasticsearch dsl?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-specify-search-analyzer-in-python-elasticsearch-dsl/194302
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-specify-search-analyzer-in-python-elasticsearch-dsl/194302 "2019-08-07T17:55:55Z")
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### Author:  [@N\_Antech](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/N_Antech)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-specify-search-analyzer-in-python-elasticsearch-dsl/194302/1 "2019-08-07T17:55:55Z")
I recently found that for a query I'm trying to run I need to specify the analyzer. This is easy enough via the REST api:
```
GET index/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"field": {
"query": "ZR000041",
"analyzer": "standard"
}
}
}
}
```
I saw that there is params() and, according to the code, params can contain anything from [https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.search](https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.search) but when checking the trace setting it we end up with:
```
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/index/_search?
pretty&analyzer=standard' -d '{
"from": 0,
"query": {
"match": {
"field": "ZR000041"
}
},
"size": 10000
}'
```
which gives a 400 error in response:
```
"error": {
"reason": "request [/biocd_results/_search] contains unrecognized parameter: [analyzer]",
"root_cause": [
{
"reason": "request [/biocd_results/_search] contains unrecognized parameter: [analyzer]",
"type": "illegal_argument_exception"
}
],
"type": "illegal_argument_exception"
},
"status": 400
}
```
So this is clearly not what I want.
Is there any way to supply this via the DSL?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-specify-search-analyzer-in-python-elasticsearch-dsl/194302/2 "2019-08-09T06:07:35Z")
the `analyzer` needs to be set together with the query you are using within the JSON, but your curl example us setting this as a HTTP parameter. For example the [match query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.3/query-dsl-match-query.html) supports setting an analyzer.
hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-specify-search-analyzer-in-python-elasticsearch-dsl/194302/3 "2019-09-06T06:07:40Z")
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