Elasticsearch: A cheatsheet of some basic cURL commands

Cheatsheet, with some useful links to either the Elasticsearch online manual, or other interesting reads.

Install Elasticsearch:
(check version here)

curl -L -O http://download.elasticsearch.org/PATH/TO/LATEST/$VERSION.zip
unzip elasticsearch-$VERSION.zip
cd  elasticsearch-$VERSION

Install Marvel:
(and turn off local cluster indexing)

./bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest
echo 'marvel.agent.enabled: false' >> ./config/elasticsearch.yml

Running Elasticsearch:
(add -d option to run in the background as a daemon)

./bin/elasticsearch
curl 'http://localhost:9200/?pretty'

Killing Elasticsearch Daemon:
# Shutdown local node

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/_local/_shutdown'

# Shutdown all nodes in the cluster

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_shutdown'

Create new empty Index:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/indexname"

Map out existing Indices and Types:

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_mapping?pretty'

Insert data over HTTP:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/indexname/typename/optionalUniqueId" -d '{ "field" : "value" }'

Retrieve data over HTTP (by ID):

curl "http://localhost:9200/indexname/typename/optionalUniqueId?pretty=true"

Retrieve data over HTTP (by search):

curl "http://localhost:9200/indexname/_search?pretty=true"