An App Pagination Hands-on Guide

Hello Webex Developers! As we continue to witness the remarkable growth in Webex adoption, the volume of data, such as messages in bustling spaces, is increasing exponentially. Managing this data efficiently is paramount, and that's where pagination becomes indispensable for REST APIs.

Automate Data Retrieval Without Manual Intervention

Paginate is a powerful GUI tool designed to streamline your interactions with the Webex API, enabling you to execute a variety of queries and efficiently export the results. It is particularly beneficial when dealing with extensive datasets that necessitate pagination, such as retrieving comprehensive lists of spaces. Beyond its core functionality, Paginate offers a suite of custom reports to enhance your data analysis capabilities. These include a detailed report of all spaces containing external users alongside organizational users, a report highlighting spaces with bots and organizational users, and a keyword search report that scans messages within a space for specific terms.

You can download the result set in either TXT or CSV formats by setting the Download parameter during your API request. Once processed, the downloaded file will be delivered directly to you via a 1:1 message on Webex by the PaginateReport bot (paginate@webex.bot) as shown below:

Certain APIs come with a reporting feature. For instance, the GET /v1/messages API includes a Message Report option, along with TXT and CSV options. This feature generates a report in a ZIP file and delivers it via a bot in Webex:

The file content would appear as below:

Use the Paginate App Effectively

Access the app effortlessly at https://paginate.webexbots.cloud/ and login using your Webex credentials, unlocking a seamless experience in managing and analyzing your Webex data. You’ll need to authorize the Paginate app to continue.

Upon successfully approving the app, you will be seamlessly redirected to the application URL: https://paginate.webexbots.cloud/.

Customize parameters to suit your specific use case and seamlessly retrieve the data you need. The app page comprises of below sections (I’m using the GET /v1/messages API for example here).

Parameters section

This section encompasses all the permissible parameter input fields that a user can provide to formulate the API request.

API Request URL section

This section provides the complete API request URL, including the associated query parameters.

Pagination Update section

This section presents data from all pages, with the message dynamically updating to reflect the number of items retrieved at any given moment:

API Response section

This section presents the actual API response generated from either a successful or a failed request.

Clubbed paginated content section

This section aggregates items from multiple pages, presenting a comprehensive list of all items retrieved by the API**.**

Reports

To access and retrieve reports, the user must possess the Compliance Officer role, which is essential for authentication purposes. For more detailed information, please visit: Webex Compliance Documentation

Using a Compliance Officer when you make the request, it will generate the data and send the report via Webex from paginate@webex.bot.

And that’s that, we hope this helps!

Need Some Help? We Got You Covered!

As always, should you have any queries about this or any other Webex Developer related topics, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team. We’re dedicated to helping developers wherever possible, any time. You can reach out through the Webex Developer Support channels 24/7.

Happy coding! The Webex Developer Team