# Passing min\_score to elastic in query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-min-score-to-elastic-in-query/227032
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Tags:** elastic-app-search
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-min-score-to-elastic-in-query/227032 "2020-04-08T00:30:52Z")
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Leng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Leng)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-min-score-to-elastic-in-query/227032/1 "2020-04-08T00:30:52Z")
Hi,
I'm interested in passing the min\_score option to elastic when searching via App Search (from javascript), as described in the elastic docs:
> **[min\_score | Elasticsearch Guide \[6.8\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/search-request-min-score.html)**
When I try to do pass that option in my query, App Search throws with the error:
Options contains invalid key: min\_score
Is there a way to pass other options that are available in Elasticsearch but are not necessarily called out in the App Search wrapper? Perhaps there is an escape hatch that I can use to execute a "raw" elastic query like when you're using a DB ORM, can't get it to do what you want, and just want to write the SQL query?
Specifically, I want to do this for 2 reasons...
1. I don't want to display results that are very far off from the query to my users.
2. I want to get a list of facets that apply to my results (with counts) but I don't want facets pertaining to results that are far down the list to be returned.... i.e. it would be great to cut off my list at a point that I define using min\_score, so I don't get facets pertaining to the 1000th result returned.
Any help appreciated,
Dan
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Leng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Leng)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-min-score-to-elastic-in-query/227032/2 "2020-04-13T16:03:39Z")
Assuming that the response from @JasonStoltz in this question:
> [@Random\_score is available on App Search?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/random-score-is-available-on-app-search/226764):
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> Hello, I'm trying to get a randomized result using App Search, but I can't find a way to archieve that. I've seen that Elasticsearch does include a random score option ([Random Scoring | Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide [2.x] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/random-scoring.html)) Is there any way to access to that feature? Thank you
is the same response I'll get here regarding the min\_score function. To @JasonStoltz or someone else who's knowledgable... I can solve the problem of truncating the search results at some score on my end pretty easily. Is there a way to solve the 2nd problem I mentioned above regarding getting facets and counts that apply to a shorter result list?
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### Author:  [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-min-score-to-elastic-in-query/227032/3 "2020-04-20T13:21:55Z")
Hey Dan, to my knowledge, that is not possible.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/passing-min-score-to-elastic-in-query/227032/4 "2020-05-18T13:21:59Z")
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