How can I fetch the total amount of items?

Question

I'd like to call for a stack exchange query to get the number of questions that were asked in a certain time range about a certain tag.

How can I do it? according to api's documentation it said that:

If you're looking to just select total, exclude the items field in favor of excluding all the properties on the returned type.

How can I do it?

I found this so maybe the question isn't relevant: https://stackapps.com/questions/7293/how-to-get-the-number-count-total-of-tags-badges-something-from-the-api — GyRo, Sep 25 '18 at 20:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '18 at 20:48

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You need to pass a custom filter in the parameters to the API call.

For example:

Reference:

answered Sep 25 '18 at 20:48

Brock Adams

thanks Brock. How did you edit the filter, apart from checking the field 'total' in the '.wrapper' section, what else did you change? – GyRo Sep 25 '18 at 20:59
OK, I checked 'total' and unchecked 'items' and it worked. Is it correct? – GyRo Sep 25 '18 at 21:01
Yeah, that'll work, as long as you have `backoff` and `error_id` also checked. (Additional strongly recommended fields are in the first referenced link above.) – Brock Adams Sep 25 '18 at 21:10

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