Hi all!
We have to impose a fixed limit on search result, since search results can not be ordered by a unique ID, so paging is expensive.
The default for this limit is 50, but it SHOULD be 500 for bots. But the higher limit for bots is currently not applied by the wbsearchentities module - that's a bug, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54096.
We should be able to fix this soon. Please poke us again if nothing happens for a couple of weeks.
-- daniel
Am 12.09.2013 12:12, schrieb Merlijn van Deen:
On 11 September 2013 20:31, Chinmay Naik chin.naik26@gmail.com wrote:
Can i retreive more than 100 items using this? I notice the 'search-continue' returned by the search result disappears after 50 items. for ex https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbsearchentities&...
The api docs at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php explicitly state the highest value for 'continue' is 50:
limit - Maximal number of results The value must be between 0 and 50 Default: 7 continue - Offset where to continue a search The value must be between 0 and 50 Default: 0
which indeed suggests there is a hard limit of 100 entries. Maybe someone in the Wikidata dev team can explain the reason behind this?
Merlijn
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