Search does not return pages beyond 333, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?page=334&place_id=97391 returns “No matching observations” even though there are over 21000 pages of observations from that place. The problem is with the API, where calling https://api.inaturalist.org/…

We use Elasticsearch and keep their recommended limit of 10k records, which is why you’re hitting this limit. You can see the GitHub issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAPI/issues/134 We should, however, have an error message when this happens, I’ll make an issue for that. The way…

Filtering by dates would be a strait-forward way of progressing through a list past 333. If you check the dates on page 332, then set your new filter to end at that date, your page 333 suddenly becomes page 1 or 2, and you can keep going.

I’ve encountered the same issue, but got around using filters. Thanks for posting @mikkohei13 , now we know exactly what’s happening. @tiwane can i suggest to broaden the error message with some type of recommendation like “please, use filters” or something similar? 'cause first time i bumped into t…

I was curious what my first identification was on here (of the 36742 that I’ve made). But I get an error message when I attempt to look back beyond page 333 .

This is because of a limit of elastic search (see Tony’s explanation above). The “fix” is also the same as described above – use search parameters to get to what you want. You can use the API (info here ), and pisum has already made a friendly tool for it here . If you’re just looking for your olde…

Platform: Website App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Screenshots of what you are seeing: Description of problem: Step 1: Go to a user’s profile page Step 2: Click “IDs” tab Step 3: …

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-fetch-pages-beyond-333/3861/2 . as a workaround to see the observations beyond page 333, use additional filter parameters to reduce the number of records returned or invert the sort order.

Cannot fetch pages beyond 333

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cthawley June 22, 2025, 11:51am 12

@jeffxvx Thanks for posting your bug report and welcome to the Forum!

I merged your report with this existing one since it is a known issue and this report has notes for workarounds.

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Cannot fetch pages beyond 333

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