title: Elasticsearch clients for python, no solution
body: <p>I am having a very bad week having chosen elasticsearch with graylog2. I am trying to run queries against the data in ES using Python.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried following clients.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>ESClient - Very weird results, I think its not maintained, query_body has no effect it returns all the results. </li>
  <li>Pyes - Unreadable, undocumented. I have browsed sources and cant figure out how to run a simple query, maybe i am just not that smart. I can even run base queries in json format and then simply use the Python object/iterators to do my analysis on the results. But Pyes does not make it easy.</li>
  <li><p>Elasticutils - Another documented, but without a complete sample. I get the following error with code attached. I don't even know how it uses this S() to connect to the right host? </p>
  
  <p>es = get_es(hosts=HOST, default_indexes=[INDEX])</p>
  
  <p>basic_s = S().indexes(INDEX).doctypes(DOCTYPE).values_dict()</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>results:</p>
  
  <pre><code> print basic_s.query(message__text="login/delete")
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticutils/__init__.py", line 223, in __repr__
      data = list(self)[:REPR_OUTPUT_SIZE + 1]
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticutils/__init__.py", line 623, in __iter__
      return iter(self._do_search())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticutils/__init__.py", line 573, in _do_search
      hits = self.raw()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticutils/__init__.py", line 615, in raw
      hits = es.search(qs, self.get_indexes(), self.get_doctypes())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/es.py", line 841, in search
      return self._query_call("_search", body, indexes, doc_types, **query_params)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/es.py", line 251, in _query_call
      response = self._send_request('GET', path, body, querystring_args)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/es.py", line 208, in _send_request
      response = self.connection.execute(request)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/connection_http.py", line 167, in _client_call
      return getattr(conn.client, attr)(*args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/connection_http.py", line 59, in execute
      response = self.client.urlopen(Method._VALUES_TO_NAMES[request.method], uri, body=request.body, headers=request.headers)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 294, in urlopen
      return self.urlopen(method, url, body, headers, retries-1, redirect) # Try again
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 294, in urlopen
      return self.urlopen(method, url, body, headers, retries-1, redirect) # Try again
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 294, in urlopen
      return self.urlopen(method, url, body, headers, retries-1, redirect) # Try again
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 294, in urlopen
      return self.urlopen(method, url, body, headers, retries-1, redirect) # Try again
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyes/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 255, in urlopen
      raise MaxRetryError("Max retries exceeded for url: %s" % url)
  pyes.urllib3.connectionpool.MaxRetryError: Max retries exceeded for url: /graylog2/message/_search
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wish the devs of this good projects would provide some complete examples. Even looking at sources I am t a complete loss. </p>
  
  <p>Is there any solution, help out there for me with elasticsearch and python or should I just drop all of this and pay for a nice splunk account and end this misery. </p>
  
  <p>I am proceeding with using curl, download the entire json result and json load it. Hope that works, though curl downloading 1 million messages from elasticsearch may not just happen.</p>