How to get more results from the API

[Naveen]

Hi,

The API returns 100 results by default.

But getbyinstitution method has a total of 326633 records. I tried
giving limit as this number but my code doesnt work.

Could you please let me know the procedure for getting all the data
from a method.

-Naveen


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[Charlie Moad]

     The Term::getByInstitution function has an optional "offset" parameter.  By default it is "0" and will give you the first 100 results.  Setting "offset" to 100 gives you result 101 to 200.  You can continue to increase this to get all the results.  You can also set the "limit" parameter to 1000 to get 1000 results at a time.  We recommend that you do not pull more than 1000 records in a single call to the api.

- Charlie

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[Naveen]

Thanks Charlie.

I also thought of same thing. But the problem is the amount of data to
retrieve.

If i pull 1000 records at a time, i guess it will take a long time for
the code to pull all the data.

I am thinking of other alternatives. Please let me know if you can
think of anything else

-Naveen

On Apr 18, 9:30 pm, Charlie Moad <cm...@imamuseum.org> wrote:
>      The Term::getByInstitution function has an optional "offset" parameter.
>  By default it is "0" and will give you the first 100 results.  Setting
> "offset" to 100 gives you result 101 to 200.  You can continue to increase
> this to get all the results.  You can also set the "limit" parameter to 1000
> to get 1000 results at a time.  We recommend that you do not pull more than
> 1000 records in a single call to the api.
>
> - Charlie
>

[Charlie Moad]

     I just timed the retrieval of 1000 term records and it took 1.5 seconds.  A little math shows that you could pull all term records in a little under 10 minutes with a script.

- Charlie

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[Naveen]

Okie. I will try with java code i have written to extract data and
place it into a database.

-Naveen

On Apr 20, 10:44 am, Charlie Moad <cm...@imamuseum.org> wrote:
>      I just timed the retrieval of 1000 term records and it took 1.5
> seconds.  A little math shows that you could pull all term records in a
> little under 10 minutes with a script.
>
> - Charlie
>