join the nosql movement for several advanced elasticsearch features but also for quick lookup in the browser for exampletry this url in your browser % beta% hydroxylase% deficiency the title is indexed separatelyin most cases the link name and the page title will be identical and sometimes the title will contain an alternative name for the disease with at least few diseases indexed it' possible to make use of the elasticsearch uri for simple lookups have look at full body search for the word headache in figure you can already do this while indexingelasticsearch can update an index and return queries for it at the same time server address index name will do search query query start field in which to search port figure document type indicates "getargument will follow what to search for the elasticsearch url example buildup if you don' query the indexyou can still get few results without knowing anything about the index specifying medical/diseases/_search will return the first five results for more structured view on the data you can ask for the mapping of this document type at diseases/_mapping?pretty the pretty get argument shows the returned json in more readable formatas can be seen in figure the mapping does appear to be the way you specified itall fields are type string the elasticsearch url is certainly usefulyet it won' suffice for your needs you still have diseases to diagnoseand for this you'll send post requests to elasticsearch via your elasticsearch python library with data retrieval and preparation accomplishedyou can move on to exploring your data figure diseases document type mapping via elasticsearch url