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SharePoint Search REST API Parsing Limits
What is the number of documents the API can parse when given a query?
Rest API with return maxmimum of 5000 item, so you need to use pagination to get more than that
- To return these 5000 items, do you know how many documents it can search through before it times out or locates these 5000 items
- 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- 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?
