# Wildcard in search query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-search-query/67980>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 5, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-search-query/67980 "2016-12-05T05:06:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![anonymous4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@anonymous4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anonymous4)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-search-query/67980/1 "2016-12-05T05:06:27Z")

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Hi,  
i am using sense to extract data from elasticseacrh using wildcard query. I have analysed field 'data'  
GET /\_search  
{  
"query": {  
"wildcard": {  
"data": "http\*.???"  
}  
}  
}  
This is not working.  
Actually i need to extract only url from the field which has string and url exist in between that string. The extracted url should be in the form like [http://localhost?get.pdf](http://localhost?get.pdf)

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-search-query/67980/2 "2016-12-05T09:25:13Z")

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Hey,

while this might work using the [uax url tokenizer](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/analysis-uaxurlemail-tokenizer.html) I strongly recommend extracting URLs as a preprocessing step before indexing your documents, which will make it endlessly easier to search for urls - also much faster.

You could write your own [ingest processor](https://www.elastic.co/blog/writing-your-own-ingest-processor-for-elasticsearch) as mentioned in that blog post for example.

--Alex

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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:** [January 2, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-search-query/67980/3 "2017-01-02T09:25:13Z")

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Closed on January 2, 2017, 9:25am UTC

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