I am trying to search for a user using the APIs provided by Instagram and I want to limit number of users returned in the API call. Currently, I am getting a list of all the users who match the query string.
I tried passing the count parameter but that is not working and I am still getting a list of all users.
Is there a way to limit the number of users returned in the response and to provide pagination? If not, what is the maximum number of users that can be returned?
API Used: https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=searchQuery&access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
Reference: https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/
use &count= it works:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=kevin&count=3&access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
this API call will return 3 results.
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Get users by name and then sort received users by their popularity for example by their followers
https://api.github.com/search/users?q=followers:followers:%3E2000&page=1&per_page=100
Smth like this but to receive also username as query param
A GraphQL query (like this one, adding the followers field) would be a better fit. (instead of getting followers one user at a time through REST API)
You can then apply a sort order (most-followers).
I want to get all pages in a category using fandom api but I couldn't find a way to do it. There is allpages query property but it doesn't have any parameter related to category. Is there any other way I can accomplish this?
If you use the Categorymembers API, you can get all the pages within a category. You'll need to use the API parameters
cmtitle=(name of category),
cmlimit=(maximum results returned, max 500 at a time)
list=categorymembers
Note that if you want to paginate through more results than 500, you will need to also use the cmcontinue parameter returned in the first page of results in your next API query to get the second page of results.
Here it is in action on Fandom.
I have integrated vimeo Rest API for my web application, whenever I call rest api, it return large response data, but to optimize large data, I would like to limit data to return me after particular date, and I want query data like "since=date" or "since=id", so should return me data available after this date or id, by applying query parameter to rest api, I want filter result on the basis of id or date, so please let me know, is there any way available for that.
example url is here:
https://api.vimeo.com/groups/330134/users?sort=date&direction=desc
but want like this
https://api.vimeo.com/groups/330134/users?since=2015-06-15;
All data filters are described in the endpoint. You can reduce the fields you receive with the field filter: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/spec#json-filter
if I try to get the streaming history of a user, e.g.
http://api.deezer.com/2.0/user/.../history?access_token=...
I get the first result page but I don't see any method/parameter (like next, page, ...) to see the rest of the results.
How can I get the following result pages?
Thanks.
There are two parameters available to control the paging of data:
limit: the number of individual track objects that are returned in the request.
index: the individual track objects at the specified index that is the first result of the request to be returned.
Please, compare these two requests to get a better understanding of the paging system:
http://api.deezer.com/user/YOUR_USER_ID/history?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN&index=0&limit=10 will return the 10 latest tracks you listened to.
http://api.deezer.com/user/YOUR_USER_ID/history?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN&index=4&limit=5 will return the 5 tracks before the 5 latest tracks you listened to.
For your information, you cannot return more than 50 individual objects per page.
I've been poring over the Twitter docs for some time now, and I've hit a wall how to get stats for growth of followers over a period of time / count of tweets over a period of time...
I want to understand from the community what does since_id and max_id and count mean in the Twitter API.
I've been following this page https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-user_timeline
I'm trying to get stats for a user --
counts of tweets in a particular time period
count of followers over a particular time period
count of retweets
I'd like some help forming querystrings for the above..
Thanks..
since_id and max_id are both very simple parameters you can use to limit what you get back from the API. From the docs:
since_id - Returns results with an
ID greater than (that is, more recent
than) the specified ID. There are
limits to the number of Tweets which
can be accessed through the API. If
the limit of Tweets has occured since
the since_id, the since_id will be
forced to the oldest ID available.
max_id - Returns results with an ID
less than (that is, older than) or
equal to the specified ID.
So, if you have a given tweet ID, you can search for older or newer tweets by using these two parameters.
count is even simpler -- it specifies a maximum number of tweets you want to get back, up to 200.
Unfortunately the API will not give you back exactly what you want -- you cannot specify a date/time when querying user_timeline -- although you can specify one when using the search API. Anyway, if you need to use user_timeline, then you will need to poll the API, gathering up tweets, figuring out if they match the parameters you desire, and then calculating your stats accordingly.
The max_id = top of tweets id list .
since_id = bottom of tweets id list .
for more : get a deep look in the last diagram .. here
The max_id and since_id are used to prevent redundancy in the case of Twitter API calls. Visualize the tweets coming in as piling onto a stack. One API call has to specify how many (count) tweets will be processed. But as this call is made, new tweets may be added. In that case, if you draw out a stack and run through the process, you notice that there can be some 'fragmentation' or sections of unprocessed tweets stuck in between processed ones. This is visible in below image as well.
To get around this problem, two parameters are used to keep track of the latest/greatest ID tweet previously processed (since_id) and the oldest/lowest ID tweet recently processed (max_id). The since_id points to the bottom of the 'fragment' and the (max_id-1) points to the top of the 'fragment'. (Note that the max_id is inclusive unlike the since_id)
So, the parameters together keep track of which part of the tweet stack still needs to be processed.