Retrieve More than 2500 Records Using the ContinueRequest Property

This page contains information about retrieving more records using ContinueRequest as part of the Retrieve method call.

Why Retrieve More than 2500 Records Using ContinueRequest

The SOAP API returns up to 2500 records at a time per retrieve call. If the total number of records exceed 2500, the call includes a status update that more data is available. You can use the code samples in the document to retrieve those more records using ContinueRequest.

How to Retrieve More than 2500 Records using ContinueRequest

Use the code samples below as a model to insert into your own API retrieve calls. The sample code does not function as a stand-alone call.

Sample .NET Code

//Do While MoreDataAvailable
do
{
    status = client.Retrieve(rr, out requestID, out Results);
    Console.WriteLine("Total Records: " + Results.Length);
    //Display Results
    for (int i = 0; i < Results.Length; i++)
    {
        sEvent = (SentEvent)Results[i];
        Console.WriteLine("SubKey on Event: " + sEvent.SubscriberKey);
    }
    //This call the API again to get the next 2500 records
    rr = new RetrieveRequest();
    rr.ContinueRequest = requestID;
}while (status.Equals("MoreDataAvailable"));//This means there are more than 2500 records
Console.WriteLine("DONE!");

Sample PHP Code

     while ($results->OverallStatus=="MoreDataAvailable") {  
          $rr = new Marketing Cloud_RetrieveRequest();  
          $rr->ContinueRequest = $results->RequestID;  
          $rrm = new Marketing Cloud_RetrieveRequestMsg();  
          $rrm->RetrieveRequest = $rr;  
          $results = null;  
          $results = $client->Retrieve($rrm);  
          $tempRequestID = $results->RequestID;  
          print_r($results->OverallStatus.' : '.$results->RequestID.' : '.count($results->Results));  
          print_r('<br>');  
     }