SharePoint Search REST API Parsing Limits

Question

What is the number of documents the API can parse when given a query?

nicolaskheirallah · Answer

Rest API with return maxmimum of 5000 item, so you need to use pagination to get more than that

anonms2200 · Answer

To return these 5000 items, do you know how many documents it can search through before it times out or locates these 5000 items

nicolaskheirallah · Answer

Think you are misinterpreting or you need to explain in more detail what you want to do!

So you Send a Rest Request to SharePoint with your Query, You will get a result up to 5000 items in a JSON. This JSON contain information such as name, location etc etc but not content etc.

Check this link to get a better understanding!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/sharepoint-search-rest-api-overview

anonms2200 · Answer

Sorry for the confusion. I have a rather large SharePoint document library so when I send a rest request to SharePoint with my query, will the API query my entire library or is there a limit?For instance, let's say my library has 20,000 documents, will the API be able to iterate through all 20,000 documents? Is there a limit that the API can iterate through?

nicolaskheirallah · Answer

So you will get the first 5000 items using $top=5000, so getting the next 5000 you need to use paginagtion to get 5001 - 10 001 And then handle the next one etc etc.Check these links!https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/pagination-for-large-result-setshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/use-odata-query-operations-in-sharepoint-rest-requests#page-through-returned-itemshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/pagination-for-large-result-sets

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SharePoint Search REST API Parsing Limits

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