# Number of Docs Returned

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-docs-returned/5329>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 7, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-docs-returned/5329 "2011-09-07T18:16:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Estrada](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adam_estrada/32/2704_2.png) [@Adam\_Estrada](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adam_Estrada)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-docs-returned/5329/1 "2011-09-07T18:16:36Z")

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All,

I am doing a search using the pyes geodistancefilter and I am only  
getting the top 10 results at a time. That is by design, right? I want  
to be able to retrieve all my the docs at a time and write them to a  
file. There are about 48k of them. Am I missing anything from the  
following? You can see that I am getting the total which is iterating  
by the number of docs found but its writing the same records over and  
over again. How can I get the next set of records in the series?

from pyes import ES  
from pyes import GeoBoundingBoxFilter, GeoDistanceFilter,  
GeoPolygonFilter, FilteredQuery, MatchAllQuery

conn = ES('localhost:9200')

def make\_corpus():  
try:  
gq = GeoDistanceFilter("geometry.coordinates", [72, 31],  
"400km")  
q = FilteredQuery(MatchAllQuery(), gq)  
rs = conn.search(query=q, indices=["getdata"])  
hits = rs['hits']  
total = hits['total']

```
    file = open('c:\\Temp\\corpus.txt', 'wb')

    for x in xrange(total):
        recs = hits['hits']
        for x in recs:
            source = x['_source']
            str = source['properties']['translated']
            text = str.split()
            final = ' '.join(text)
            file.writelines(final + '\n')
    file.close()

except Exception as err:
    print err

```

Thanks,  
Adam

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**Author:** ![Alberto\_Paro\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alberto_paro_2/32/1137_2.png) [@Alberto\_Paro\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alberto_Paro_2)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-docs-returned/5329/2 "2011-09-11T19:38:48Z")

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You need to set the "size" parameter in Search Object.

Are you using a recent version of pyes ([GitHub - aparo/pyes: Python connector for ElasticSearch - the pythonic way to use ElasticSearch](https://github.com/aparo/pyes))?

Your code should be:

> from pyes import ES  
> from pyes import GeoBoundingBoxFilter, GeoDistanceFilter,  
> GeoPolygonFilter, FilteredQuery, MatchAllQuery, Search
> 
> conn = ES('localhost:9200')
> 
> def make\_corpus():  
> try:  
> gq = GeoDistanceFilter("geometry.coordinates", [72, 31],  
> "400km")  
> q = FilteredQuery(MatchAllQuery(), gq)  
> resultset = conn.search(Search(query=q, size=1000), indices="getdata")  
> file = open('c:\Temp\corpus.txt', 'wb')
> 
> ```
> for r in resultset :
> str = r.properties.translated               
> # OR str = r.['properties']['translated']
> text = str.split()
> final = u' '.join(text)
> file.writelines(final + '\n')
> file.close()
> 
> ```
> 
> except Exception as err:  
> print err

Note:  
I don't know why you split and merge a string str should be always equal to final.

I suggest for the mailinglist using tags such as [pyes], [elastica], [tire] to allow users to understand info from the subject.

Hi,  
Alberto

Il giorno 07/set/2011, alle ore 20:16, Adam Estrada ha scritto:

> All,
> 
> I am doing a search using the pyes geodistancefilter and I am only  
> getting the top 10 results at a time. That is by design, right? I want  
> to be able to retrieve all my the docs at a time and write them to a  
> file. There are about 48k of them. Am I missing anything from the  
> following? You can see that I am getting the total which is iterating  
> by the number of docs found but its writing the same records over and  
> over again. How can I get the next set of records in the series?
> 
> from pyes import ES  
> from pyes import GeoBoundingBoxFilter, GeoDistanceFilter,  
> GeoPolygonFilter, FilteredQuery, MatchAllQuery
> 
> conn = ES('localhost:9200')
> 
> def make\_corpus():  
> try:  
> gq = GeoDistanceFilter("geometry.coordinates", [72, 31],  
> "400km")  
> q = FilteredQuery(MatchAllQuery(), gq)  
> rs = conn.search(query=q, indices=["getdata"])  
> hits = rs['hits']  
> total = hits['total']
> 
> ```
> file = open('c:\\Temp\\corpus.txt', 'wb')
> 
> for x in xrange(total):
> recs = hits['hits']
> for x in recs:
> source = x['_source']
> str = source['properties']['translated']
> text = str.split()
> final = ' '.join(text)
> file.writelines(final + '\n')
> file.close()
> 
> ```
> 
> except Exception as err:  
> print err
> 
> Thanks,  
> Adam

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-docs-returned/5329/3 "2017-07-06T03:54:47Z")

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