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SharePoint Search REST API Parsing Limits
What is the number of documents the API can parse when given a query?
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
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?
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?
- 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-sets
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/use-odata-query-operations-in-sharepoint-rest-requests#page-through-returned-items
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/pagination-for-large-result-sets- Sorry Nicolas, I think we're still at a disconnect here. I believe you are talking about the pagination results that are being returned when you send your query. I am talking about all the documents that are being searched through whether or not they have the Querytext in them. For instance lets say I have documents A1, A2, A3 in my SharePoint library and I send a rest request with the 'Querytext': 'SharePoint' and only A1 contains this text. Then the API will search through A1, A2, A3 to find and return the document with the 'Querytext' of 'SharePoint'. Now if I increase the number of documents in my library to a million like A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, ..., A10000000, will the API be able to search through the million documents? Additionally let's say that it goes past a million, is there a limit of the documents the API can search through to find documents with the 'Querytext':'SharePoint' in them?