# Ridiculously long Scroll\_id **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 24, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ridiculously-long-scroll-id/12913 "2013-07-24T00:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Scott\_Chung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Scott\_Chung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scott_Chung)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ridiculously-long-scroll-id/12913/3 "2013-07-24T01:31:45Z")
When I decode the scroll id, I get the following: "scan;500;1607138:Ah5ZV4RiRRmr3OjrrZB48A;1661193:3FbURZzHT3-XHuYGQCRQ3g;1636318:NbHVKbL2TJedKQI8ejKA2g;1607139:Ah5ZV4RiRRmr3OjrrZB48A;1713931:-1U8JPQ0TvGk8XX\_6dGp\_A;...." So, my guess is this is "scan; {# of shards}; {shard\_id\_1}:{corresponding\_scroll\_id\_1}; {shard\_id\_2}:{corresponding\_scroll\_id\_2}; ..." So, the scroll\_id grows linearly to the number of shards. In fact, for me, the scroll\_id is too large to pass as part of the url. Can we get a fix for this? On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:20:22 PM UTC-7, Oli wrote: > The scroll id is a base64 encoded string, that I believe does have > information relating to your shards. > > Decode it to see its contents. > On Jul 23, 2013 5:50 PM, "Scott Chung" \<[scot...@gmail.com](mailto:scot...@gmail.com) \\> > wrote: > > > Does Scroll\_id get longer with the number of shards? I have 500 shards > > (for using custom routing and speeding up search queries), and I when I > > tried to do a scan search, I got back a scroll\_id of length 20708. > > > > My guess is that this is because the scroll\_id is some id for each shard > > concatenated together. (Is my guess completely off?) Is there a way to make > > each shard use the same id, or have a table that translates a public > > scroll\_id that's returned to one that's used internally? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ridiculously-long-scroll-id/12913)._