The Project Search API endpoint appears to cap the total_results field at 10,000. Would it be possible to let it return the actual number of projects that match the input parameters? Example: using this call for Uruguay: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/projects?place_id=7259&page=1&per_page=1 , I get…

It’s not clear to me that this is a bug since there’s no evidence that the functionality isn’t intended. It seems like it should probably be a Feature Request, since you are looking for additional functionality. If there’s a reason that this should be a bug, please let us know, but otherwise I’d sug…

[image] cthawley: I’d suggest making a Feature Request, and then we can close this thread. if you all think it needs to be a Feature Request, couldn’t you just change the thread to a feature request? most of the API endpoints do report total_results beyond 10000. this is one of maybe 2 or 3 t…

For feature requests, we would want the template filled out which shouldn’t be too hard. I have no personal knowledge of whether the behavior is intentional or not - I’m mostly just noting that how it is treated would depend on that. Two followup questions: I notice that the API call links above …

[image] cthawley: I notice that the API call links above are to v1 - is the same issue present in v2? Most of the development would be toward that I would guess. it’s the same in both. i’ve never looked at the internals of the API routing, but just based on how i’ve seen it behave, i would gu…

I made the Feature Request. Thanks @pisum and @cthawley

Allow Project search API endpoint to count total results higher than 10,000

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Allow Project search API endpoint to count `total_results` higher than 10,000 Feature Requests api	1	80	July 9, 2026
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Allow Project search API endpoint to count total results higher than 10,000

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