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iOS

Posted by Marlon Henry
Marlon Henry
6,885 Points

How do I limit what my jSon returns?

I'm writing a iOS blog reader app in Swift. I'm using a wordpress site to house the info, everything works fine but the wordpress is returning way to many posts when I call http://techwelike.com/api/get_recent_summary/ it's giving me 70 back, is there any way I can limit this to like 25 at most. As you all can guess it's making my app load super slow, lol. I even tried loading the jSon in background thread and nope still slow lol. Please help Amit Bijlani

2 Answers

agreatdaytocode
agreatdaytocode
24,757 Points

Hello Marlon.

I could be wrong but, you should be able to limit your request inside the request itself. 

//For example: 
let urlString = "https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topmovies/limit=25/json"

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Marlon Henry
Marlon Henry
6,885 Points
Marlon Henry
Marlon Henry
6,885 Points

Thanks Aaron Ackerman I guess I will try that, but the thing is this http://techwelike.com/api/get_recent_summary/ gives me back 71 results while http://sophisticatedignorance.net/api/get_recent_summary/ gives me back 10.