Total Page Number

[Joanna]

Hello,

I'm working on Collecta's HTTP API right now and was wondering if
there was a way to get the number of pages for all the results? I'd
also like to get all the results for a specific search. Is there a
way to do that using HTTP API? Or do I need to call on the URL again
to get the next set of results?

Any thoughts and ideas would be much appreciated.

[Christopher Zorn]

It should be in the <opensearch:totalResults> element. 

[Joanna]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the reply.

I looked into the <opensearch:totalResults> element and it says 100
too, the same as the <opensearch:itemsPerPage> element.
So does it mean that there are only 100 results for the entire search
dating way way back?

On Aug 24, 8:54 pm, Christopher Zorn <christopher.z...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It should be in the <opensearch:totalResults> element.
>

[Joanna]

Oh, my mistake. I saw the correct <opensearch:totalResults>
containing the total # of results for the search.
But my problem now is, how to retrieve all the results in ATOM format.
I'm thinking of retrieving a link in the header of the ATOM format.
It's something like this:
<link type="application/atom+xml" rel="next" href="http://
api.collecta.com/search?page=2&amp;q=&quot;katy%20perry&quot;%20-
category:photo%20-category:video%20language:en" />
Am I correct that this leads to the next set of results?

:)

[Christopher Zorn]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Joanna <joanna.ti...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, my mistake.  I saw the correct <opensearch:totalResults>
containing the total # of results for the search.
But my problem now is, how to retrieve all the results in ATOM format.
I'm thinking of retrieving a link in the header of the ATOM format.
It's something like this:
<link type="application/atom+xml" rel="next" href="http://
api.collecta.com/search?page=2&amp;q=&quot;katy%20perry&quot;%20-
category:photo%20-category:video%20language:en" />
Am I correct that this leads to the next set of results?

:)

It does but results are ordered by time. So you may get a different set of results when using 'page'. If you want to page through results the best thing to do is to use the 'after_id' or 'since_id' parameters.

 http://api.collecta.com/search?q=tofu&after_id=1282712749901

 You should see a <link rel='after'/> element in the data returned too. 

Hope this helps.