How to get a list of all indexes in python-elasticsearch

Question

How would I get a list of the names of an index in Python? Here is what I have so far:

>>> es=e.es
>>> es


        

Answer 1

I use curl to call the stats API and get information about the indices. Then I parse the JSON object that is returned to find the index names.

curl localhost:9200/_stats

In Python you can call curl using the requests library. I don't know of a way to do this using the Elasticsearch or Elasticsearch-DSL Python library.