Get all the available countries

Question

Hi!

I'm trying to build a dropdown input with html and vanilla js that shows a list of all known countries. However, when I do a fetch AJAX fetch call to https://wft-geo-db.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/countries, I'm returned the first 5 countries only. To get more, I have to set the optional limit parameter to a given number. In the documentation, it is clearly stated that *if no criteria are set, you will get back all known countries.*

What am I doing wrong?

Michael Mogley · Answer

Sorry for the late reply. RapidAPI did not send me a new-thread notification.

Yes you will get back all known countries, but you still need to page results. The way to page them is to use **offset** in combination with **limit**.

For example, first 5 results:

`GET /v1/geo/countries?offset=0&limit=5`

Next 5 results:

`GET /v1/geo/countries?offset=5&limit=5`

If you want to set a higher **limit** to get back more results in a single page, you'll need to upgrade to the PRO plan (which currently offers a max **limit** = 100).

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Get all the available countries