# Scroll to get scroll\_id only

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-to-get-scroll-id-only/94643>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 26, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-to-get-scroll-id-only/94643 "2017-07-26T12:48:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![wintsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@wintsu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wintsu)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-to-get-scroll-id-only/94643/1 "2017-07-26T12:48:39Z")

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I'm now working with large data, which means each doc is a little bit large.  
I have a scenario that, we have to query a huge number of data which exceeds the limit of from+size(10000).

I'm now using scroll, but sometimes, if I have to query very later data, I must query page by page to get them, as my doc is a little bit large, this cause a lot of time to process.  
So I'm wondering, if there is a way, that I can get only scroll\_id, without data, and when scroll to the page I want, then I get the data from es. In this way the performance would improve a lot.

It'd be great that if someone knows how and please do help me on it.

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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:** [August 23, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-to-get-scroll-id-only/94643/2 "2017-08-23T12:48:40Z")

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