Question

A data analyst is writing a script to pull customer order records from a REST API. The API returns a maximum of 100 records per response and includes a 'next_page_token' field in each response body. It also returns an HTTP 429 status code when too many requests are sent in a short window. Which approach should the analyst implement to reliably acquire the complete dataset?

Accepted Answer

Loop through requests using the next_page_token until it is null, and add a retry-with-delay routine that pauses when a 429 is received

Answer

Send a single request with a very large page-size parameter to retrieve all records at once and avoid pagination logic

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Issue all page requests simultaneously in parallel to minimize total extraction time, ignoring status codes

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Request only the first 100 records, since that is the maximum the API can return in any single call