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<font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">Hi Markus,<br>
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Thanks, that makes perfect sense. Two more general questions:<br>
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- Shouldn't the secretariat update the documentation to say the
limit is 200.000 instead of 1.000.000 ?<br>
- Is there a plan to incrementally remove/lessen this limitation
? 200K is quite a limit compared to the 500M+ total records
available.<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
n.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 12/02/15 20:20, Markus Döring a
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Hi Nico,
<div>see anserws inline below.</div>
<div>Makrus</div>
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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>
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no, it means offset + limit</div>
<div>and like you discovered below the limit is actually at
200.000 not 1 million</div>
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face="Verdana">What my tests says:<br>
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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>
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the offset is not in pages but absolute records. So you
actually are looking at records 3335 to 3634</div>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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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>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<br>
Nico<br>
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