Arc Media List through API

[shriram_manohar]

Hi,

In the ARC media library API documentation , there is no API to fetch the list of media in a collection. What is the way to get all media items in a collection through API?

Regards,

Shriram

[fabiosousa]

Hello friend I'm starting my use with the Arc API and I'm finding very little documented the API, this has been a big obstacle for me to understand the possible uses.

[James]

 @shriram_manohar  ,

Look at GET /api/media_management/collections/:collection_id/perspectives under Tweed Media Management Perspectives.

[fabiosousa]

Hello James!

I am testing this API endpoint but the answer return to me only 20 items, you know how me get all items of a collection?

[James · Accepted solution]

This sounds like a pagination issue. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, it mentions the per_page parameter. There is also a page parameter.

per_page: The number of results per page. Default: 20, Max: 50

page: The page to retrieve. Default: 1

When you get the first perspective result, there is some meta data that lets you know the total. In the example below, I made the default call, so I got 20 perspectives. 

The last page is 5, so I could make the following calls to get all of the data (my collection ID was 342). The first one was the original call.

/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives
/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives?page=2
/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives?page=3
/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives?page=4
/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives?page=5
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Alternatively, if I specified per_page=50, then I get this result

In this case, I could get all of the information in just two calls.

/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives?per_page=50
/api/media_management/collections/342/perspectives?per_page=50&page=2
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[fabiosousa]

Very thanks James! Your great explication clarified my doubt.