# Term suggester example?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-suggester-example/23072
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 2, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-suggester-example/23072 "2015-04-02T19:58:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@cching](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cching)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-suggester-example/23072/1 "2015-04-02T19:58:13Z")
I am trying to get term suggest to work and it may be that it's not going
to work the way I think it should, but I can't seem to get it to work _at
all_. So I put together an example index to illustrate the point,
hopefully someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.
Basically, I want to be able to get suggestions for documents based on
terms. For instance, if I have documents with a name of "North America"
and "South America", I would like a \_suggest of "america" to return
suggestions for both of those documents. Note that I'm moving away from
completion suggest because they are documented and appear to work only as
prefix suggestors.
Here is my not-working example, appreciate any pointers!
#!/bin/sh
ES=localhost:9200
echo "\>\>\> Deleting \_all"
curl -XDELETE $ES/\_all
CONTINENTS=("North America" "South America" "Europe" "Asia" "Australia")
for ((i = 0; i \< ${#CONTINENTS[@]}; i++))
do
c=${CONTINENTS[$i]}
echo "\>\>\> Indexing the '$c' document"
curl -XPOST $ES/continents/continent -d'
{
"name": "$c"
}
' && echo
echo "${CONTINENTS[$i]}"
done
curl -XPOST $ES/continents/\_flush && echo
# Search for the document using the name
echo
echo "\>\>\> Getting \_suggest for 'america'"
echo
curl $ES/continents/\_suggest -d'
{
"my-suggestion" : {
"text" : "america",
"term" : {
"field" : "name",
"suggest\_mode" : "always"
}
}
}' && echo
Here's the output I'm currently getting:
> > > Getting \_suggest for 'america'
{"\_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0},"my-suggestion":[{"text":
"america","offset":0,"length":7,"options":}]}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-suggester-example/23072/2 "2017-07-06T00:22:00Z")