Hello there! I’m running a forum on which, in one of all the categories, users are posting a lot of youtube links. I would love to build some third-party youtube player on top of that but can’t quite invent how could i fetch such data by a third party app. The most obvious way of doing that would …

@mbajur I assume it is hard limited for performance reasons. Because search allows you to get multiple types of data (posts, topics) matching numerous arbitrary constraints (has tag, is in category, contains string), search results can be quite expensive for the back end to generate. Paginated resul…

I can’t help you with the problem, but let me see if I even understand the question: “I want to find a lot of posts with youtube URLs (for complicated digression), can the API search response be paginated to get more than 50 results?”

Yeah, that’s exactly what i am asking for (asked it in the last line of my original post). I included the explanation just to maybe provoke someone to sugest any other solution than i sugested.

Excellent answer. Thanks for this post! :slight_smile: That’s exactly the same conclusion i reached some time ago - search is probably expensive so it would be a better idea to use webhooks and a third party system.

[이미지] mbajur: It’s hardcoded to 50 results i think. Search now loads more than 50 results if you scroll down so this should be possible with API.

Paginating API search results

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 8월 2, 2017, 11:54오후 6

Search now loads more than 50 results if you scroll down so this should be possible with API.

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