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How to bulk fetch by ids in couchdb without creating a view

I need to fetch couchdb documents by a bunch of ids. Is there an request / API to do it ? I don't want to create a view (id, docs) and then do a find by keys. when the id b-tree already exists

Solution

  • You should use the bulk API documented here.

    It could look something like below.

    • Pass in the keys as part of the body via a POST
    • Pass in the name of the db (in the example below, it's demodb)
    • in the url, use the _all_docs for the view
    • if you want the entire documents returned (and not just the rev), be sure to pass include_docs=true

    curl -d '{"keys":["docId1","docId2","docId3"]}' -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/demodb/_all_docs?include_docs=true