Since this is potentially a blocker on Chinmay's GSoC project, I'm cc'ing wikidata-tech...
-andrew On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 September 2013 20:31, Chinmay Naik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi, >> I am trying to retreive wikidata items by label through wbsearchentities() >> using the "continue" parameter from >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbsearchentities&format=json&search=entrez%3A&language=en&type=item&limit=10&continue=40 >> Can i retreive more than 100 items using this? I notice the >> 'search-continue' returned by the search result disappears after 50 items. >> for ex >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbsearchentities&format=json&search=abc&language=en&type=item&limit=10&continue=50 >> > > The api docs at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php explicitly state the > highest value for 'continue' is 50: > > limit - Maximal number of results > The value must be between 0 and 50 > Default: 7 > continue - Offset where to continue a search > The value must be between 0 and 50 > Default: 0 > > which indeed suggests there is a hard limit of 100 entries. Maybe someone in > the Wikidata dev team can explain the reason behind this? > > Merlijn > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
