Efficient way to retrieve all _ids in ElasticSearch

Question

What is the fastest way to get all _ids of a certain index from ElasticSearch? Is it possible by using a simple query? One of my index has around 20,000 documents.

Answer 1

you can also do it in python, which gives you a proper list:

import elasticsearch
es = elasticsearch.Elasticsearch()

res = es.search(
    index=your_index, 
    body={"query": {"match_all": {}}, "size": 30000, "fields": ["_id"]})

ids = [d['_id'] for d in res['hits']['hits']]