# Issues connecting to App Search hosted on Elasticsearch service through Python API **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Tags:** elastic-app-search\ **Created:** [June 13, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-to-app-search-hosted-on-elasticsearch-service-through-python-api/236975 "2020-06-13T10:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coding\_martian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@coding\_martian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coding_martian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-to-app-search-hosted-on-elasticsearch-service-through-python-api/236975/1 "2020-06-13T10:45:15Z")
I'm trying to index a document on my App Search Instance running on Elasticsearch Service, using the python API. My code is as follows ```auto from elastic_app_search import Client client = Client( base_endpoint='https://.app-search.eastus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com/api/as/v1/', api_key='private-', use_https=True ) engine_name = '' def indexDoc(doc): return client.index_document(engine_name, doc) def main(): doc = { "title": "Test", "text": "This worked. Woohoo!" } print(indexDoc(doc)) if __name__ == ' __main__': main() ``` This yielded the following error: ```auto Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/hari/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 159, in _new_conn conn = connection.create_connection( File "/Users/hari/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 61, in create_connection for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, socket.SOCK_STREAM): File "/Users/hari/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 918, in getaddrinfo for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags): socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known ``` This error is printed several times, followed by: ```auto requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='https', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: ///app-search.eastus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com/api/as/v1//engines//documents (Caused by NewConnectionError(': Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known')) ``` I tried a non https version of this code: ```auto client = Client( base_endpoint='4e9d28aa6be4481499db518c9f094532.app-search.eastus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com/api/as/v1/', api_key='private-ztxmrx3ppvk17pezdkn8iien', use_https=False ) ``` Running this, I get multiple errors which look like: ```auto requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='.app-search.eastus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/as/v1//engines//documents (Caused by NewConnectionError(': Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 60] Operation timed out')) ``` I would ideally like to connect to App Search in HTTPS and index my document. How do I do this? ---
**Author:** ![JasonStoltz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasonstoltz/32/49893_2.png) [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-to-app-search-hosted-on-elasticsearch-service-through-python-api/236975/2 "2020-06-17T15:30:05Z")
Make sure you exclude the protocol from "base\_endpoint". > [@Not able to connect to App search from Python script](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-to-app-search-from-python-script/230579): > > Hello! We have a problem connecting to our App Search engine from python using the elastic\_app\_search library. After creating a client instance with our proper credentials the server is rejecting to output anything. For illustration I am using the get\_schema method. from elastic\_app\_search import Client client = Client(base\_endpoint=base\_endpoint,api\_key=api\_key, use\_https=False) engine\_name = "our\_engine" client.get\_schema(engine\_name) We get the following error: HTTPConnectionPool(host='h… > [@Where is the host identifier?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-is-the-host-identifier/230779/9): > > Im just trying to connect by python following the git example, but im getting an error: from elastic\_app\_search import Client import requests import jwt client = Client(base\_endpoint='[https://20becbeexxxx.app-search.us-east-1.aws.found.io/api/as/v1](https://20becbeexxxx.app-search.us-east-1.aws.found.io/api/as/v1)', api\_key='private-xxxx', use\_https=True) engine\_name = 'dequienescl' document = { 'id': 'INscMGmhmX4', 'body': 'A wonderful video of a magnificent cat.' } client.index\_document(engine\_name, document) {'id': 'INscMGmhmX4'} ---
**Author:** ![coding\_martian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@coding\_martian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coding_martian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-to-app-search-hosted-on-elasticsearch-service-through-python-api/236975/3 "2020-06-17T19:31:10Z")
That fixed my problem! I did try excluding the protocol in the past, but I would also set use\_https=false. The key is to exclude protocol and set use\_https=true ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-connecting-to-app-search-hosted-on-elasticsearch-service-through-python-api/236975/4 "2020-07-15T19:31:13Z")
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