How to fetch more than 25 post messages

Question

I'm trying to get all post messages using restfb, my code is as follows

public Connection<Post> publicSearchMessages(Date fromDate, Date toDate) {
    Connection<Post> messages = publicFbClient.fetchConnection("search",
            Post.class,
            Parameter.with("q", "Watermelon"),
            Parameter.with("since", fromDate),
            Parameter.with("until", toDate),
            Parameter.with("type", "post"));

    return messages;
}

This only gives latest 25 post messages.

Parameter.with("limit",100 )

If i set limit parameter, it gives 100 messages but i don't want to limit to fetching post messages. So,

Is there anyway I can get a full list of post messages matching the search criteria without setting limit parameter?

Answer 1

Maybe you can try using a loop. FB can't get more than 1000 each time, so you can use the loop to get the whole feeds. Use the offset like this:

Parameter.with("limit", 1000));
Parameter.with("offset", offset));

Offset will be a variable and its value will be 1000,2000,3000...

Answer 2

There is no way to fetch unlimited results from FB. The default limit is set to 25. As you know, you can change this using the limit parameter. I have not found an upper border for limit searching the web. Maybe, you can set it to a very high amount.