On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Andy Lechlak <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Any idea who we submit this too?
>
You can add it to the issue tracker at:
https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues
but the OpenLibrary staff doesn't really pay attention to it, so you should
probably also send email through the contact form:
https://openlibrary.org/contact

> I realize this is probably something that won't be remedied quickly so we
> may have to launch our new site without the Open Library integration.
>
I don't understand why you can't use the form of the URL that I suggest
below with limit & page parameters. Is there some reason that it doesn't
meet your requirements?

Tom

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> *From:* Ol-tech <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Morris <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2016 2:16 PM
> *To:* Open Library -- technical discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [ol-tech] API response limiter
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Andy Lechlak <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone successfully got a limiter in the API results from Open
>> Library? We are working on search integrations and if someone searches for
>> "art" we get 10,000 results when we'd really just like 100 max.
>>
> https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=art&limit=100&page=1
>
>> We can of course only display 100, but the data still comes back for
>> 10,000 which just hurts performance.
>>
> It looks like something is broken with the default parameters. They should
> default to something more sensible than returning all the results in a
> single batch.
>
> Tom
>
>
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