API pagination best practices

Question

I\'d love some some help handling a strange edge case with a paginated API I\'m building.

Like many APIs, this one paginates large results. If you query /foos, you\'

Answer 1

Just to add to this answer by Kamilk : https://www.stackoverflow.com/a/13905589

Depends a lot on how large dataset you are working on. Small data sets do work on effectively on offset pagination but large realtime datasets do require cursor pagination.

Found a wonderful article on how Slack evolved its api's pagination as there datasets increased explaining the positives and negatives at every stage : https://slack.engineering/evolving-api-pagination-at-slack-1c1f644f8e12