# What is the best rest client to learn/test elasticsearch with?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-rest-client-to-learn-test-elasticsearch-with/64588>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 1, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-rest-client-to-learn-test-elasticsearch-with/64588 "2016-11-01T16:33:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![glagidse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@glagidse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/glagidse)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-rest-client-to-learn-test-elasticsearch-with/64588/1 "2016-11-01T16:33:22Z")

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Hi all,

I've been learning about Elasticsearch since Friday, and I think it's pretty great, but I'm wondering what you all think is the best rest client to learn/test elasticsearch with?

I'm using the httprequester plugin in Firefox and have recently discovered Postman. What other ways are out there? What did you use to learn the Elasticsearch api?

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**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-rest-client-to-learn-test-elasticsearch-with/64588/2 "2016-11-01T16:41:53Z")

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If you want to play around with the API, using Kibana's "Console" is probably the best thing to try. It provides a nice UI for performing requests, and has auto-completion for different parts of the API.

It's pretty easy to get started with, download Kibana 5.0, run `bin/kibana` (after extracting it) and then navigate to [http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dev\_tools/console](http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dev_tools/console) to play around!

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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, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-rest-client-to-learn-test-elasticsearch-with/64588/3 "2017-07-05T22:07:48Z")

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