# Retrieving results by using kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON from a saved search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-results-by-using-kibanasavedobjectmeta-searchsourcejson-from-a-saved-search/189464
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-results-by-using-kibanasavedobjectmeta-searchsourcejson-from-a-saved-search/189464 "2019-07-09T06:49:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Veelaert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lars_Veelaert)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-results-by-using-kibanasavedobjectmeta-searchsourcejson-from-a-saved-search/189464/1 "2019-07-09T06:49:16Z")
I have a use-case that demands reading out the API for saved searches in Kibana and retrieving the results.
There seems to be no API for Kibana to do this.
A defined saved search can be retrieved and in it's json response you can find the field 'kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON' which has the following structure:
> {
> "index": "a40f4f20-972d-11e9-a4aa-9b663566a96d",
> "highlightAll": true,
> "version": true,
> "query": {
> "language": "kuery",
> "query": ""
> },
> "filter": [
> {
> "$state": {
> "store": "appState"
> },
> "meta": {
> "alias": null,
> "disabled": false,
> "index": "a40f4f20-972d-11e9-a4aa-9b663566a96d",
> "key": "\_type",
> "negate": false,
> "params": {
> "query": "datacenter-patching",
> "type": "phrase"
> },
> "type": "phrase",
> "value": "datacenter-patching"
> },
> "query": {
> "match": {
> "\_type": {
> "query": "datacenter-patching",
> "type": "phrase"
> }
> }
> }
> },
> {
> "meta": {
> "negate": false,
> "index": "a40f4f20-972d-11e9-a4aa-9b663566a96d",
> "type": "phrase",
> "key": "doc.Patching Status",
> "value": "Non-compliant",
> "params": {
> "query": "Non-compliant",
> "type": "phrase"
> },
> "disabled": false,
> "alias": null
> },
> "query": {
> "match": {
> "doc.Patching Status": {
> "query": "Non-compliant",
> "type": "phrase"
> }
> }
> },
> "$state": {
> "store": "appState"
> }
> }
> ]
> }
Now, after a lot of Google searches I can't seem to find a way to transform this in a Elasticsearch query or something useful to retrieve the actual results.
Strange because if you go to the saved search in the UI \> Inspect \> Request, you can see the actual Elasticsearch query I need.
Anybody any idea?
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### Author:  [@Aaron\_Caldwell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aaron_Caldwell)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-results-by-using-kibanasavedobjectmeta-searchsourcejson-from-a-saved-search/189464/2 "2019-07-09T14:40:12Z")
Hello Lars,
Your best bet would probably be to interact with your saved searches via the [Saved Object API](http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/saved-objects-api-find.html), since Saved Searches are just a type of Saved Object in Kibana. We do expose the Elasticsearch queries occurring to the user via Inspect as you noticed, but I don't believe they're available via query.
You could use a Python (or other) script to retrieve the Saved Objects, filter for Saved Searches and then re-execute the searches using the same parameters.
Regards,
Aaron
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Veelaert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lars_Veelaert)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-results-by-using-kibanasavedobjectmeta-searchsourcejson-from-a-saved-search/189464/3 "2019-07-10T08:51:07Z")
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for your answer,
What I do now is re-parse the saved search parameters into an Elastic Search query, which feels dirty.
Is there a way to execute the query directly? (without reparsing the parameters, querystring, filters, aggregations, ...)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieving-results-by-using-kibanasavedobjectmeta-searchsourcejson-from-a-saved-search/189464/4 "2019-08-07T08:51:09Z")
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