<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Nico,<div>see anserws inline below.</div><div>Makrus</div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">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:<br>
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Here is what the doc says:<br>
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- max value for "limit" = 300<br>
- max total records = 1.000.000 (does that means limit *
offset?)<br></font></font></div></blockquote>no, it means offset + limit</div><div>and like you discovered below the limit is actually at 200.000 not 1 million</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">What my tests says:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=3335">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=3335</a><br>
=> works, but shouldn't since 300*3335 = 1000500 total
records<br></font></font></div></blockquote>the offset is not in pages but absolute records. So you actually are looking at records 3335 to 3634</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">-
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=1&offset=200000">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=1&offset=200000</a><br>
=> "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.<br></font></font></div></blockquote>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!</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">-
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=199998">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=199998</a><br>
=> "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.<br>
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Could you clarify a bit ? <br>
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All the best,<br>
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Nico<br>
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