﻿---
title: Reindex
description: The reindex API extracts the document source from the source index and indexes the documents into the destination index. You can copy all documents to...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2696/reference/elasticsearch/clients/javascript/reindex_examples
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Client
  - Elasticsearch JavaScript Client
---

# Reindex
The `reindex` API extracts the document source from the source index and indexes the documents into the destination index. You can copy all documents to the destination index, reindex a subset of the documents or update the source before to reindex it.
In the following example we have a `game-of-thrones` index which contains different quotes of various characters, we want to create a new index only for the house Stark and remove the `house` field from the document source.
```js
'use strict'

const { Client } = require('@elastic/elasticsearch')
const client = new Client({
  cloud: { id: '<cloud-id>' },
  auth: { apiKey: 'base64EncodedKey' }
})

async function run () {
  await client.index({
    index: 'game-of-thrones',
    document: {
      character: 'Ned Stark',
      quote: 'Winter is coming.',
      house: 'stark'
    }
  })

  await client.index({
    index: 'game-of-thrones',
    document: {
      character: 'Arya Stark',
      quote: 'A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell. And I\'m going home.',
      house: 'stark'
    }
  })

  await client.index({
    index: 'game-of-thrones',
    refresh: true,
    document: {
      character: 'Tyrion Lannister',
      quote: 'A Lannister always pays his debts.',
      house: 'lannister'
    }
  })

  await client.reindex({
    wait_for_completion: true,
    refresh: true,
    source: {
      index: 'game-of-thrones',
      query: {
        match: { house: 'stark' }
      }
    },
    dest: {
      index: 'stark-index'
     },
    script: {
      lang: 'painless',
      source: 'ctx._source.remove("house")'
    }
  })

  const result = await client.search({
    index: 'stark-index',
    query: { match_all: {} }
  })

  console.log(result.hits.hits)
}

run().catch(console.log)
```