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amreet11
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Issues with Cursor Pagination

Hi,

 

I am struggling to correctly pull information from a restaurant reservations API which uses cursor pagination. Calling the API directly produces the below result

amreet11_0-1674662595451.png

 

Accessing the "data" record provides the cursor to access the next page of data as well as the booking records themselves

 

amreet11_1-1674662650115.png

 

The API paginates until cursor = null

 

I have attempted to use List.Generate to access all of the pages of data, using the below posts as reference, but I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to adadpt them to my API requirements:

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Need-Help-with-Stripe-REST-API-Pagination-in-Power-Quer...

https://datachant.com/2016/06/27/cursor-based-pagination-power-query/

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Web-based-cursor-pagination-issue/m-p/2786453#M86457

 

I have attempted to modify the code to work for my scenario. However, when using the below code, it appears to continually loop, creating a huge dataset. For reference, I know that the call I am making has c. 1000 records, which means with a limit of 400 imposed by the API, there should be three pages of data.

let

     // Get the API Token

    api_url = "https://api.sevenrooms.com/2_4/reservations/export?venue_id" &venue_id&"&limit=400&from_date="&from_date&"&to_date="&to_date,

    from_date = "2023-01-01",

    to_date = "2023-01-31",

    venue_id = "XXXXXXXXXX",

 

   

    

    APICall =

 

        List.Generate

        (

                () => [APIData = Json.Document(Web.Contents (api_url,

                [

       

        

        Headers = [#"Content-Type"="application/x-www-form-urlencoded", #"Authorization"=Token ]

 

 

    ]

    ))[data] , MoreData = APIData[cursor], results = APIData[results]],

 

    each [results] <> null,

 

    each [ APIData = Json.Document(Web.Contents(api_url&"&cursor="&(try Text.From([MoreData]) otherwise null),

   

     [

       

        

        Headers = [#"Content-Type"="application/x-www-form-urlencoded", #"Authorization"=Token ]

 

 

    ]

    ))[data], MoreData = [APIData][cursor], results = [APIData][results]],

 

    each [APIData] ),

    #"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(APICall, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),

    #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Column1", {"cursor", "limit", "results"}, {"cursor", "limit", "results"}),

    #"Expanded results" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Column1", "results")

in

    #"Expanded results"


This leaves me with thousands of rows of data (I assume because it is continually looping) rather than three cursors worth that should be generated:

 

amreet11_2-1674669270999.png

 

Could someone please help me out with refining the request to avoid this looping?


I am new to M langauge so any help would be hugely appreciated.

 

Thanks

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