# Opensearch-perl

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695>\
**Category:** OpenSearch Client Libraries\
**Tags:** clients-general\
**Created:** [December 5, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695 "2022-12-05T19:55:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jwrightecs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/jwrightecs/32/4533_2.png) [@jwrightecs](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/jwrightecs)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695/1 "2022-12-05T19:55:35Z")

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Still no opensearch-perl, what do we need to get this going? Looks like the elasticsearch-perl client was unaffected by the “product” checks in other clients. Will probably need to think of a new namespace as Search::OpenSearch is already taken (by support for Amazon/A9’s previous OpenSearch) and ElasticSearch’s libraries live under the Search::Elasticsearch namespace

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**Author:** ![wbeckler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wbeckler](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/wbeckler)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695/2 "2022-12-05T20:08:23Z")

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Is there something preventing people from using elasticsearch-perl to access OpenSearch?

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**Author:** ![tuxayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tuxayo](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/tuxayo)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695/3 "2025-02-20T08:05:40Z")

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Now there is. A version check is introduced here↓ and released with version 8.12

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-perl/commit/ec7810a18eed46fb3814fa9dcabea439734f1904#diff-72de6acf775b1bd214bbb445c31addf301946b33ba99d5801bdcbe9a75b5b387R346>

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**Author:** ![tuxayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tuxayo](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/tuxayo)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695/4 "2025-02-20T08:09:28Z")

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But since then, someone started a making a client which might be in a working state. I have not tested it though: [OpenSearch-0.94 - Unofficial Perl client for OpenSearch (https://opensearch.org/) - metacpan.org](https://metacpan.org/dist/OpenSearch)

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**Author:** ![wallasey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9de053/32.png) [@wallasey](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/wallasey)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/opensearch-perl/11695/5 "2026-07-14T18:22:03Z")

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I released a fork of an old version of Search::Elasticsearch.  
[OpenSearch::Client](https://metacpan.org/pod/OpenSearch::Client)  
It’s built using the api yaml from [opensearch-api-specification](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-api-specification)