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Hi everybody,

quick q about the pagination function in the API - how would you calculate the amount of pages to retrieve since there is not total_pages parameter?

I would get total_results and divide it by the amount of results per page - is that the correct approach?

Another thing I am wondering is the “limit” parameter - is 25 the default max per page?

Hi Gilbert,
You have two pagination modes: <https://api.theirstack.com/#description/pagination|page based or offset based>
What is your use case? Do you want to fetch a specific number of record or all of them?

If you want to fetch a specific number of records we recommend you offset based pagination.
Let's imagine you need 1.250 records

1. Request (limit= 500, offset=0)
2. Request (limit=500, offset=500)
3. Request(limit=250, offest=1000)

Ok, great and If I for example want to scrape recurring all new jobs that had been posted in the last week for a specific industry I would use the total_results and divide by 25 to get the number of pages to retrieve?

Yes, but i recommend you to divide by 500