# Retrieve all matched results **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-all-matched-results/3269 "2010-08-27T16:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Richard\_Livsey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dc4da7/32.png) [@Richard\_Livsey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Livsey)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-all-matched-results/3269/1 "2010-08-27T16:45:55Z")
Is it possible to retrieve all matched results, or do all queries need a size? I could set size to something fairly large, I can fairly safely assume that I don't want to display more than 1000 results to the user for example, but wondering if there's a nicer way of doing it. Cheers. -- Richard Livsey Minutebase - Online Meeting Minutes [http://minutebase.com](http://minutebase.com) [http://livsey.org](http://livsey.org) ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-all-matched-results/3269/2 "2010-08-27T18:53:07Z")
You can scroll the results using the search scroll API. Though be careful not to heavily use it (i.e. don't use scrolling to provide pagination for your users) as its taxing on the server. -shay.banon On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Richard Livsey [livsey@gmail.com](mailto:livsey@gmail.com) wrote: > Is it possible to retrieve all matched results, or do all queries need a > size? > > I could set size to something fairly large, I can fairly safely assume > that I don't want to display more than 1000 results to the user for > example, but wondering if there's a nicer way of doing it. > > Cheers. > > -- > Richard Livsey > Minutebase - Online Meeting Minutes > [http://minutebase.com](http://minutebase.com) > [http://livsey.org](http://livsey.org) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-all-matched-results/3269/3 "2017-07-06T04:20:11Z")