About the number of results I can get from API

[Sean W]

Hi, 

I am a student and have had a problem of getting all text of searching results from the API. From the news website I searched the word 'statin' and it showed that there were 1000+ relevant pages and when I searched with API it returned only 400 results. How can I get all texts either from theguardian.com or API?

Thanks. 

[Philip McMahon]

Hi Sean, just to check, are you using the pageSize and page parameters to go through the results?


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[Xiang Wang]

In the api yes I checked all pages and yes it was 400+in total. 

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[chris.b...@guardian.co.uk]

Hi Sean,

The search box on the web site uses Google, not the API. This is why the results do not match exactly.

I'm not sure how the Google search comes up with the number of results, but it seems to be a bit unreliable. e.g. when I searched for 'statin', it said 3,800 results on page 1, but only 2,100 results when I went to page 10.

The API returns 162 results, which I think is a more reasonable number. I would guess that the Guardian has probably written hundreds, but not thousands, of articles about statins.

Hope this helps,

Chris

[Xiang Wang]

Hi Chris,

Thanks a lot.

Now I got why the two engines have inconsistent results. But it's really a shame as I need a lot more articles talking about statin for a NLP project.

Do anyone know are there any other news wire APIs I can use or is there anyway I can get access to all but not only limited 90 articles from the website powered by Google search sevice.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Sean