Hi Nico, see anserws inline below. Makrus
> I'm having some doubts about how the hard limits work when using the > occurrence search API. I think this is a documentation/error message issue > rather than a technical one: > > Here is what the doc says: > > - max value for "limit" = 300 > - max total records = 1.000.000 (does that means limit * offset?) no, it means offset + limit and like you discovered below the limit is actually at 200.000 not 1 million > What my tests says: > > - > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=3335 > => works, but shouldn't since 300*3335 = 1000500 total records the offset is not in pages but absolute records. So you actually are looking at records 3335 to 3634 > - > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=1&offset=200000 > => "maximum offset allowed is 200000", but offset IS 200000 (message should > be "less than"? 199999 works) Also, this limit on the offset parameter should > be stated in the doc page. I believe we have not updated the docs and the 1 million limit actually is 200.000 which you can see here in your example! > - > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=199998 > => "maximum offset allowed is 200000": here, we probably hit the 1.000.000 > total limit, but the error message refer to the undocumented (and not hit > here) max offset limit. > > Could you clarify a bit ? > > All the best, > > Nico > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150212/1e4273d5/attachment.html>
