# Text Search across fields via body Dict

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-across-fields-via-body-dict/29762>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 22, 2015, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-across-fields-via-body-dict/29762 "2015-09-22T08:38:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ayushrastogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@ayushrastogi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushrastogi)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-across-fields-via-body-dict/29762/1 "2015-09-22T08:38:55Z")

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Hi All,

I am new to ES.  
I have a index( book type ) which stores questions and answers.  
I want to search text present either question or in answer.  
I can do it via curl in this fashion,

```
curl -i XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test-rule1/_search?q=string'

```

But I am not sure to to achive this via the body dict used in search method in the python API query DSL

I assume the body should be something similar to,

```
inputbody ={"query": { "match_all": { searchStr } } }

```

What should be the key against the searchStr such that it the search is independent of fields.

Thanks  
Ayush.

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**Author:** ![ayushrastogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@ayushrastogi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushrastogi)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-across-fields-via-body-dict/29762/2 "2015-09-23T17:07:56Z")

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The key is "\_all", example

```
inputbody ={"query": { "_all": { searchStr } } }
```

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-search-across-fields-via-body-dict/29762/3 "2017-07-05T23:48:28Z")

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