# Querying with fields="\*" to get all fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-with-fields-to-get-all-fields/4855
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 14, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-with-fields-to-get-all-fields/4855 "2011-07-14T03:46:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@debuggr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/debuggr)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-with-fields-to-get-all-fields/4855/1 "2011-07-14T03:46:46Z")
Hi all,
According to [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/fields.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/fields.html),
using fields="\*" with my search query should return all stored fields
for each search hit. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work on our
ES cluster.
Here is an example from [search.elasticsearch.org](http://search.elasticsearch.org):
[http://search.elasticsearch.org/elastic-search-website/guide,blog/\_search?query=term&fields=\*](http://search.elasticsearch.org/elastic-search-website/guide,blog/_search?query=term&fields=*)
hits: [
{
\_index: "elastic-search-website"
\_type: "guide"
\_id: "guide\_\_\_reference\_\_\_api\_\_\_admin-indices-flush"
\_score: 1
},
{
\_index: "elastic-search-website"
\_type: "guide"
\_id: "guide\_\_\_reference\_\_\_api\_\_\_admin-indices-get-settings"
\_score: 1
},
...]
If I use a valid field in the query, things work as expected:
[http://search.elasticsearch.org/elastic-search-website/guide,blog/\_search?query=term&fields=title](http://search.elasticsearch.org/elastic-search-website/guide,blog/_search?query=term&fields=title)
hits: [
{
\_index: "elastic-search-website"
\_type: "guide"
\_id: "guide\_\_\_reference\_\_\_api\_\_\_admin-indices-flush"
\_score: 1
-fields: {
title: "Flush API"
},
}
{
\_index: "elastic-search-website"
\_type: "guide"
\_id: "guide\_\_\_reference\_\_\_api\_\_\_admin-indices-get-settings"
\_score: 1
-fields: {
title: "Get Settings API"
}
}
...]
Is there something I'm doing incorrectly? If not, could this be a
bug?
I'm hoping there's a really simple answer to this problem. I've
searched around and haven't found anything. I don't think I'm doing
anything obviously wrong.
Thanks in advance,
Simon
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-with-fields-to-get-all-fields/4855/2 "2011-07-14T04:36:11Z")
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### Author:  [@sarohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sarohan)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2012, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-with-fields-to-get-all-fields/4855/3 "2012-09-10T07:40:46Z")
i am also stugling with the same point, i need to get all the fields in a search doc using query.... if possible please guide me to get the result.
Thanks
Sarohan
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-with-fields-to-get-all-fields/4855/4 "2017-07-06T03:13:25Z")