# Using the ElasticSeach API json error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 28, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808 "2019-04-28T15:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/1 "2019-04-28T15:58:00Z")

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Hello, I am trying to use the elastic Search API to just get a quick JSON object out of ElasticSearch.

using the VScode extension listed below  
[https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ria.elastic](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ria.elastic)

using query  
GET \_search  
{  
"query": {  
"match\_all": {}  
}  
}  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/0/403793802ba1d5d716dbbe34c31f81b2ceb6ec3d.png)

and getting the following response back

```
<h1>Critical error while processing request: /_search/_search</h1>

```

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/8/681ab128abe75b8294f809fa63d2d133623addec.png)

I feel like I am missing something simple here, but I am a noob. Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/2 "2019-04-28T16:46:30Z")

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I also get the following error  
`Expected a JSON object, array or literal.`

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/3 "2019-04-28T16:58:49Z")

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Not sure what this tool is or works.  
What about using Kibana dev console instead?

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/4 "2019-04-28T19:18:45Z")

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Wish i could but the json file i want out of ElasticSeach will be quite large and i want to push it to an S3 bucket.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/5 "2019-04-28T19:48:50Z")

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What is the use case?

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/6 "2019-04-28T22:27:07Z")

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Making a Threat Intelligence feed for people to use to prevent Cyber Attacks.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/7 "2019-04-28T23:59:53Z")

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So you want to serve data using elasticsearch or you want to extract all data to somewhere else?

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/9 "2019-04-30T00:36:25Z")

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extra data based on a search.

So doing an API call to elasticsearch and getting back the JSON values

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/10 "2019-04-30T02:07:28Z")

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Use the scroll API. It has been designed to extract a huge quantity of records.

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**Author:** ![iukea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iukea/32/49083_2.png) [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/11 "2019-05-07T01:53:43Z")

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Thanks 🙂

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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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-elasticseach-api-json-error/178808/12 "2019-06-04T01:53:47Z")

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