Offset-based pagination in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to set the offset parameter for pagination.

Rest API

params = {"offset": [1], "limit": 10}

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A20

B"offset"

Cstart

Dpage

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a string instead of a number for offset.

Using variable names instead of numeric values.

The offset value should be a number indicating how many items to skip. Here, 20 means skip the first 20 items.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to calculate the offset for page 3 with 10 items per page.

Rest API

offset = ([1] - 1) * 10

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Alimit

Bpage

Ccount

Dstart

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using limit instead of page.

Using start or count which are not page numbers.

Offset is calculated by subtracting 1 from the current page number and multiplying by the number of items per page.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly set offset and limit in the API request.

Rest API

response = requests.get(url, params={"offset": [1], "limit": 10})

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Alimit

B"offset"

Cpage

Doffset

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Passing the string "offset" instead of the variable offset.

Using page instead of offset.

The offset variable should be passed as a value, not as a string key.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary comprehension that maps page numbers to their offset values for 5 pages.

Rest API

offsets = {page: (page [1] 1) [2] 10 for page in range(1, 6)}

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A-

B+

C*

D//

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using addition instead of subtraction.

Using division instead of multiplication.

Offset is calculated by (page - 1) * 10 to skip items of previous pages.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to filter a list of items for the current page using offset and limit.

Rest API

page_items = items[[1]: [2] + [3]]

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Aoffset

Blimit

Dpage

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using page instead of offset for slicing.

Adding limit to page instead of offset.

The slice starts at offset and ends at offset + limit to get the current page items.