# Wildcards character Support for App Search Endpoint
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-character-support-for-app-search-endpoint/237701
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Tags:** elastic-app-search
**Created:** [June 18, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-character-support-for-app-search-endpoint/237701 "2020-06-18T20:26:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@prabhpahul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhpahul)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-character-support-for-app-search-endpoint/237701/1 "2020-06-18T20:26:22Z")
`Is there a way to use native elastic search service api support for wildcard characters.?`
If not, what should be the possible way to access Elasticsearch layer which is beneath the app search to be able to use advance query options?
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### Author:  [@prabhpahul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhpahul)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-character-support-for-app-search-endpoint/237701/2 "2020-06-18T21:03:55Z")
Can we get the elastic search running instances to which app search endpoints convert?
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### Author:  [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-character-support-for-app-search-endpoint/237701/3 "2020-07-01T11:51:36Z")
Hey @prabhpahul,
There is currently no recommendation for querying the elasticsearch instances directly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-character-support-for-app-search-endpoint/237701/4 "2020-07-29T11:51:39Z")
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