# Pagination

When you fetch a collection of resources, you get paginated results. The response contains the record and page counts in the `meta` attribute and the URLs of the other pages in the `links` attribute.

```json
{
  "data": [...],
  "meta": {
    "record_count": 140,
    "page_count": 14
  },
  "links": {
    "first": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=1&page[size]=10",
    "next": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=2&page[size]=10",
    "last": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=14&page[size]=10"
  }
}
```

{% hint style="info" %}
The default page number is **1** (consequently, the link to the `prev` page is missing), and the default page size is **10**. The maximum page size allowed is **25**, but we recommend using a lower value unless strictly necessary. If you need to modify these default settings, use the `page` query parameter in your request.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
If you need to gather information about large sets of resources for analytics/reporting purposes, please avoid making multiple paginated requests to the related resource endpoint. Use [exports](/core/exporting-resources.md) instead, which are a best fit for that. Alternatively, you can also perform a [search query](/metrics/getting-started/queries/search.md) using our [Metrics API](https://docs.commercelayer.io/metrics/) (at the moment limited to [orders](/metrics-api-reference/resources/orders.md), [carts](/metrics-api-reference/resources/carts.md), and [returns](/metrics-api-reference/resources/returns.md)).
{% endhint %}

### Example

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Request" %}
The following request fetches the SKUs, setting the page number to 3 and the page size to 5:

```shell
curl -g -X GET \
  'https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[size]=5&page[number]=3' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer your-access-token'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Response" %}
On success, the API responds with a `200 OK` status code, returning the five resource objects listed on the third page (from the 6th object to the 10th), together with the record and page counts and the links to the `first`, `prev`, `next,` and `last` page.

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "xYZkjABcde",
      "type": "skus",
      "links": {...},
      "attributes": {...},
      "relationships": {...},
      "meta": {...}
    },
                  {
      "id": "yzkWXfgHQS",
      "type": "skus",
      "links": {...},
      "attributes": {...},
      "relationships": {...},
      "meta": {...}   
    },
    {
      "id": "aBmNkPQRst",
      "type": "skus",
      "links": {...},
      "attributes": {...},
      "relationships": {...},
      "meta": {...}
    },
    {
      "id": "WAspXYhfCV",
      "type": "skus",
      "links": {...},
      "attributes": {...},
      "relationships": {...},
      "meta": {...}
    },
    {
      "id": "QWERtyUpBa",
      "type": "skus",
      "links": {...},
      "attributes": {...},
      "relationships": {...},
      "meta": {...}
    }       
  ],
  "meta": {
    "record_count": 140,
    "page_count": 28
  },
  "links": {
    "first": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=1&page[size]=5",
    "prev": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=2&page[size]=5",
    "next": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=4&page[size]=5",
    "last": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/skus?page[number]=28&page[size]=5"
  }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
The example query parameters above use unencoded `[` and `]` characters simply for readability. In practice, these characters must be percent-encoded, per the requirements in [RFC 3986](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.4).
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="danger" %}
Event stores use a slightly different pagination method based on a cursor instead of the page number (learn more [here](/core-api-reference/event_stores.md#pagination)).
{% endhint %}


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```
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```

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