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Unlocking the Power of API Pagination: Best Practices and Strategies

Pragati Verma on June 06, 2023

In the modern application development and data integration world, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) serve as the backbone for connecting va...
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Aamreen Charles Joy

Good article, that too beginner friendly! Thanks a lot

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nhwilly

Just now trying to add this to my project. Thanks!!

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The Grey Hat Guy

God blesses is an eye catching article . actually i have get under the hood of this paginations.

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Angel Oduro-Temeng Twumasi

My first time dealing with Pagination. Your article has been so helpful.

Thanks

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Guddeti Ajay Manikanta ⭐⭐⭐

Great Article Pragathi. Hope to see many such beautiful posts in future. Thanks.

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Pragati Verma

Thank you so much Ajay 😁

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Dhruv Kothari

great read, thanks for sharing 💡

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Harun Aksu

I learnt more than what I am looking for.

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Nicolas Evangelista

This is insane, what a great post! Thanks for sharing!

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Sheetal Pahadi

Easy to read while still being very informative. Thanks for sharing!

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Asaf Eliasim

Thank you for sharing, it is a g8 article. Can u explain what is the difference between the cursor-based to the keyset?

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Pragati Verma

Thank you so much, I am glad that you liked this article. To answer your question in brief -

Cursor-based pagination uses pointers to navigate the dataset, while keyset pagination relies on the values of specific fields to determine the next set of results. Cursors are used for dynamic datasets, while keyset pagination is efficient for large datasets with stable sorting.

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Tingwei

What would you do if you get data( which are from different data sources) and merge together with pagination ?