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 Döring a écrit :
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... => 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=2... => "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... => "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
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