A short fuzzy search example, taken from http://www.found.no/foundation/fuzzy-search/

documents.yaml

_type: product
name: Vacuum Cleaner
---
_type: product
name: Turkey Baster

mappings.yaml

product: 
  properties: 
    name: 
      type: "string"
      analyzer: "simple"

play.sh

#!/bin/bash

export ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:9200"

# Create indexes

curl -XPUT "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/play" -d '{
    "settings": {},
    "mappings": {
        "product": {
            "properties": {
                "name": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "analyzer": "simple"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}'


# Index documents
curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_bulk?refresh=true" -d '
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"product"}}
{"name":"Vacuum Cleaner"}
{"index":{"_index":"play","_type":"product"}}
{"name":"Turkey Baster"}
'

# Do searches

curl -XPOST "$ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT/_search?pretty" -d '
{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "name": {
                "query": "Vacuummm",
                "fuzziness": 2,
                "prefix_length": 1
            }
        }
    }
}
'

play.yaml

# Auto generated by Found's Play-tool at 2013-12-17T11:52:06-08:00
version: 0
title: Fuzzy Search Example
description: "A short fuzzy search example, taken from http://www.found.no/foundation/fuzzy-search/"

searches.yaml

  query: 
    match: 
      name: 
        query: "Vacuummm"
        fuzziness: 2
        prefix_length: 1