# Search excerpt question

**URL:** <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/search-excerpt-question/1979>\
**Category:** Confluence Cloud\
**Tags:** rest-api, confluence-cloud\
**Created:** [April 4, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/search-excerpt-question/1979 "2017-04-04T18:49:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![shai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@shai](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/shai)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/search-excerpt-question/1979/1 "2017-04-04T18:49:29Z")

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How does the Confluence REST api determine the excerpt to return? It doesn’t seem to match the terms in my query. Is there a way to get an excerpt that is relevant to my query (similar to how ElasticSearch and Lucene do highlighting)?

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**Author:** ![acalantog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/acalantog/32/37988_2.png) [@acalantog](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/acalantog)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/search-excerpt-question/1979/2 "2017-08-14T00:07:54Z")

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Hi @shai,

I guess you’re looking for [expansion in REST APIs](https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/REST/latest/) ? You can identify which fields you wanted to return.

Thanks!

Cheers,  
Anne Calantog