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Admin Indices Get Mapping
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The get mapping API allows to retrieve mapping definition of index or index/type.


.. code-block:: js

    $ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/_mapping'


Multiple Indices and Types
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The get mapping API can be used to get more than one index or type mapping with a single call. General usage of the API follows the following syntax: **host:port/{index}/{type}/_mapping** where both **{index}** and **{type}** can stand for comma-separated list of names. To get mappings for all indices you can use **_all** for **{index}**. The following are some examples:


.. code-block:: js

    $ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter,kimchy/_mapping'
    
    $ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_all/tweet,book/_mapping'


If you want to get mappings of all indices and types then the following two examples are equivalent:


.. code-block:: js

    $ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_all/_mapping'
    
    $ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_mapping'