Retrieving All Items from Client Search
TLDR Coffee inquired about fetching all items from a client search. Kishore Nallan suggested using page=X parameter for pagination but warned of performance impact.
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Feb 20, 2022 (23 months ago)
Coffee
07:45 AM
Kishore Nallan
11:55 AMpage=X parameter to access further pages, but that will have a performance impact. Typesense is a search so it's optimized for fetching top relevant results fast.The export end-point supports exporting documents based on a filter condition. But it does not support a
q parameter.1
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