Pagination
In this guide, we will look at how to work with paginated responses when querying the Fin X API. By default, all responses limit results to ten. However, you can go as high as 100 by adding a limit parameter to your requests. If you are using one of the official Fin X API client libraries, you don't need to worry about pagination, as it's all being taken care of behind the scenes.
When an API response returns a list of objects, no matter the amount, pagination is supported. In paginated responses, objects are nested in a data attribute and have a has_more attribute that indicates whether you have reached the end of the last page. You can use the starting_after and endding_before query parameters to browse pages.
Example using cursors
In this example, we request the page that starts after the conversation with id s4WycXedwhQrEFuM. As a result, we get a list of three conversations and can tell by the has_more attribute that we have reached the end of the resultset.
- Name
starting_after- Type
- string
- Description
The last ID on the page you're currently on when you want to fetch the next page.
- Name
ending_before- Type
- string
- Description
The first ID on the page you're currently on when you want to fetch the previous page.
- Name
limit- Type
- integer
- Description
Limit the number of items returned.
Manual pagination using cURL
curl -G https://api.finx.ai/v1/conversations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
-d starting_after="s4WycXedwhQrEFuM" \
-d limit=10
Paginated response
{
"has_more": false,
"data": [
{
"id": "WAz8eIbvDR60rouK",
// ...
},
{
"id": "hSIhXBhNe8X1d8Et"
// ...
},
{
"id": "fbwYwpi9C2ybt6Yb"
// ...
}
]
}