How can I find the total hits for an Elastic NEST query?

Question

In my application I have a query which brings limits the number of hits returned to 50 as follows

            var response = await client.SearchAsync<Episode>(s => s
                .Source(sf => sf
                     .Includes(i => i
                         .Fields(
                             f => f.Title,
                             f => f.PublishDate,
                             f => f.PodcastTitle
                         )
                     )
                     .Excludes(e => e
                         .Fields(f => f.Description)
                     )
                 )
                .From(request.Skip)
                .Size(50)
                .Query(q => q 
                    .Term(t => t.Title, request.Search) || q
                    .Match(mq => mq.Field(f => f.Description).Query(request.Search))));

I am interested in the total number of hits for the query (i.e. not limited to the size), so that I can deal with pagination on the front-end. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Answer 1

You are looking for Total property on the search response object. Have a look.

So in your particular case that will be response.Total.