# Update in Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-in-elastic-search/39095>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 13, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-in-elastic-search/39095 "2016-01-13T11:51:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![mhr1472](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@mhr1472](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhr1472)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-in-elastic-search/39095/1 "2016-01-13T11:51:40Z")

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Is there any simple Update API which can work without script?

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-in-elastic-search/39095/2 "2016-01-13T12:19:03Z")

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Elasticsearch has an update API that takes partial documents as input. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html#\_updates\_with\_a\_partial\_document](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html#_updates_with_a_partial_document)

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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, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-in-elastic-search/39095/3 "2017-07-05T23:24:56Z")

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