# Advanced task search API show total count + increase api limit

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/advanced-task-search-api-show-total-count-increase-api-limit/918893>\
**Category:** API & Developers\
**Tags:** advanced-search, search, tasks\
**Created:** [14 September 2024 13:38 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/advanced-task-search-api-show-total-count-increase-api-limit/918893 "2024-09-14T13:38:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Allan10](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Allan10](https://forum.asana.com/u/Allan10)\
**Post date:** [14 September 2024 13:38 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/advanced-task-search-api-show-total-count-increase-api-limit/918893/1 "2024-09-14T13:38:19Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with the advanced search API, but I find pagination quite challenging.  
Since the results may contain more than 100 items (paginated), it would be helpful to display the total count for the query.

Also, It has been some time since the advanced search API was released.  
It would be great if you could consider increasing the rate limit for the search API, as it’s only available to premium users.

Thanks,  
Allan

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2024 15:44 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/advanced-task-search-api-show-total-count-increase-api-limit/918893/4 "2024-11-23T15:44:39Z")

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Belated welcome, @Allan10!

@John_Vu or @Phil_Seeman, Any chance you could comment on Allan’s two questions?

I’ll venture that it might be hard/expensive for the API to return the query’s total count so that’s why it’s done that way.

Thanks,

Larry

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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [25 November 2024 05:51 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/advanced-task-search-api-show-total-count-increase-api-limit/918893/5 "2024-11-25T05:51:00Z")

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Well, they’re really enhancement requests for the Asana API folks, so I’ll let @John_Vu or @Andrew-asana comment if they’re able.