# Scroll id is not changing while querying

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-id-is-not-changing-while-querying/106202>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-id-is-not-changing-while-querying/106202 "2017-11-02T13:16:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ravi\_Shanker\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Ravi\_Shanker\_Reddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ravi_Shanker_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-id-is-not-changing-while-querying/106202/1 "2017-11-02T13:16:08Z")

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I written this code to test scroll api. As mentioned in docs the scroll id will change for every request.  
But in my case it is same for all requests.

> The initial search request and each subsequent scroll request returns a new \_scroll\_id — only the most recent \_scroll\_id should be used.

Here is my code sample

```
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

es = Elasticsearch(['10.225.253.130:9200'], sniff_on_start=True)

my_dict = {}
my_dict['query'] = {}
my_dict['query']['match_all'] = {}

result = es.search(index='.monitoring-kibana-2-2017.10.27', body=my_dict, size=1000, scroll="1m")

print result['_scroll_id']

for x in range(10):
    result_in_scroll = es.scroll(scroll_id=result['_scroll_id'], scroll="1m")
    print result_in_scroll['_scroll_id']
    result['_scroll_id'] = result_in_scroll['_scroll_id']
    if (len(result_in_scroll['hits']['hits']) == 0):
        break
    
print "Terminated correctly"

```

This is the output I got

```
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAACXzVwWTXZBaGJGOE5UZW1vWGxabjhfM0JnQQ==
Terminated correctly

```

My scroll is same in all cases. Is this expected behaviour or not???

I am using 5.4.0 ES

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**Author:** ![Igor\_Motov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igor_motov/32/45193_2.png) [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-id-is-not-changing-while-querying/106202/2 "2017-11-10T19:43:02Z")

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Short answer: yes, if you have a single shard index (as seems to be in your case) - it is expected behavior, but it can happen even if you have multiple shards. Longer answer: the scroll basically contains a list of shards where your search is running plus information about how to find your scroll data on each shard. As you exhaust results from each shard, you will notice that the scroll id becomes shorter, because we no longer need to search these shards and therefore don't need to list them on scroll. But if only have one shard or all shards will get processed at the same time, your scroll id might never change. Saying this, I wouldn't rely on this behavior since it might change in the future and always copy scroll id from the previous response.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-id-is-not-changing-while-querying/106202/3 "2017-12-08T19:43:05Z")

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