# Top match in category
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-match-in-category/229114
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-match-in-category/229114 "2020-04-21T18:04:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@emarthinsen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emarthinsen)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-match-in-category/229114/1 "2020-04-21T18:04:56Z")
Say I have an online bookstore. If someone searches for "dinosaur", I want to return the top 3 matches in fiction, non-fiction, and reference categories. Is this possible with a single query in ES, or would I need to issue a separate query for each category?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-match-in-category/229114/2 "2020-04-22T02:50:58Z")
You could run an `_msearch`, with one search per category in that request, with a size of 3.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-match-in-category/229114/3 "2020-05-20T02:51:04Z")
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