Hi Markus, Thanks, that makes perfect sense. Two more general questions:
- Shouldn't the secretariat update the documentation to say the limit is 200.000 instead of 1.000.000 ? - Is there a plan to incrementally remove/lessen this limitation ? 200K is quite a limit compared to the 500M+ total records available. Best, n. Le 12/02/15 20:20, Markus D?ring a ?crit : > 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 <mailto: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/20150226/619e2cc7/attachment.html>
