What is the best practice to retrieve all customers from Stripe API into one list

Question

When calling Stripe::Customer.all(:limit => 100) there is a limit of 100 per call. We have a lot more customers than that, and I would like to get them all at once. Am I missing something, or is this only possible by writing a naive loop that checks on the has_more attribute and then makes a new call until has_more = false?

Answer 1

You are right, you must write a naive loop with a cursor per the stripe docs:

starting_after

optional

A cursor for use in pagination. starting_after is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, ending with obj_foo, your subsequent call can include starting_after=obj_foo in order to fetch the next page of the list.

Here's one in case anyone needs a quick copy-paste.

  def self.all_stripe_customers
    starting_after = nil
    customers = []
    loop do
      results = Stripe::Customer.list(limit: 100, starting_after: starting_after)
      break if results.data.length == 0
      customers = customers + results.data
      starting_after = results.data.last.id  
    end
    return customers
  end