How to get ALL communities from DSpace rest api

Question

Using the endpoint:

GET https://mydspace.org/rest/communities/

I seem to only get 100 results returned. I can't see any options in the documentation to return more.
How do I do this?

Answer 1

1. Most of the DSpace rest endpoints support a limit parameter. I suppose that there is some maximum size that you can request, but the limit should be able to go higher than 100.

   • https://demo.dspace.org/rest/communities?limit=500

2. If you still are unable to retrieve everything in one request (or if you timeout), you can paginate through the results in your code.

   • https://demo.dspace.org/rest/communities?limit=100
   • https://demo.dspace.org/rest/communities?offset=100&limit=100
   • https://demo.dspace.org/rest/communities?offset=200&limit=100

3. There is an endpoint (in DSpace 6) that will allow you to retrieve the ids and handles for the full hierarchy.

   • https://demo.dspace.org/rest/hierarchy