# Scrolling for Paging?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scrolling-for-paging/9006
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 13, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scrolling-for-paging/9006 "2012-09-13T00:28:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@phill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/phill)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scrolling-for-paging/9006/1 "2012-09-13T00:28:14Z")
If I want to page through a _sorted_ search result when a user hits the
next page button, I was assuming I could use the
//\_search?scroll=5m followed by follow up with
\_search?scroll=5m&scroll\_id=....
Is this a good approach for paging? Or should I just be looking at
using "from" and "size"?
I'm not sure when I read the quote below. Since a particular users
search may not be a particularly large result.
I'm not doing any re-indexing, and I'm not worried about real-time searches.
```
"Scrolling is not intended for real time user requests, it is
```
intended for cases like scrolling over large portions of data that
exists within elasticsearch to reindex it for example."
-- [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/scroll.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/scroll.html)
-Paul
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scrolling-for-paging/9006/2 "2017-07-06T03:12:59Z")