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title: "Getting Started with Elasticsearch, Part 2 - Searching with a HttpClient"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-part-2---searching-with-a-httpclient-cigbvm3aq
source_url: https://nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net/2020/09/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-part-2-searching-with-a-httpclient
type: article
source: "No Dogma Blog (Bryan Hogan)"
published: 2026-05-31T07:46:33.883Z
updated: 2026-05-31T09:09:55.178Z
tags: ["c#", "rest-api", "elk", "full-text-search"]
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# Getting Started with Elasticsearch, Part 2 - Searching with a HttpClient

**[No Dogma Blog \(Bryan Hogan\)](https://daily.dev/sources/bryanhogan)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide to querying Elasticsearch from a .NET application using a typed HttpClient instead of the official Elasticsearch client libraries. Covers creating a typed client interface with three search methods (by company name, by name and state, and paginated all-results), wiring it up via HttpClientFactory in Startup.cs, and exposing the searches through an ASP.NET Core API controller with constructor injection.

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Tags: [#c#](https://daily.dev/tags/c#), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api), [#elk](https://daily.dev/tags/elk), [#full-text-search](https://daily.dev/tags/full-text-search)

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