Deleting documents in Elasticsearch is possible in two ways: using the DELETE call or the delete_by_query call, which we'll look at in the next chapter.
Deleting a document
Getting ready
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
To execute these commands, HTTP clients can be used such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or others. I suggest using the Kibana console as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.
To execute the following commands correctly, use the indexed document in the Indexing a document recipe.
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