Fetch Multiple Documents With a Single Request _all_docs implements the HTTP_view_API where each key is the doc _id, and each value is a JSON object containing the rev. This means that: By adding ?include_docs=true you can get the documents themselves, not just their id and rev By adding ?startkey="xx"&endkey="yy" you can get the documents with keys in a certain range By POSTing to _all_docs you c