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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 16, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-kibana-from-an-html-file/115677 "2018-01-16T09:35:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@syiannop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/syiannop)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-kibana-from-an-html-file/115677/1 "2018-01-16T09:35:13Z")
Hello,
I am new here and I just finished [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html) short tutorial about Kibana. Everything works fine but I want to know if I can search Kibana from "outside".
Let say that I want to have a search bar on an HTML file I created to search the "accounts.json" file, named on the tutorial above in KIbana and be able to view the results from the custom HTML file. Is it possible?
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**Author:**  [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-kibana-from-an-html-file/115677/2 "2018-01-16T19:44:13Z")
For this you will want to do what Kibana does and talk to Elasticsearch directly. It exposes a ton of great APIs for building search experiences and is what powers all of the search features in Kibana.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-kibana-from-an-html-file/115677/4 "2018-02-14T08:58:24Z")
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