# Custom Object Search API rate limit

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-search-api-rate-limit/95978>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** professional\
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-search-api-rate-limit/95978 "2023-12-13T14:08:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![PatrickGraf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@PatrickGraf](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PatrickGraf)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-search-api-rate-limit/95978/1 "2023-12-13T14:08:58Z")

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Hey Devs,

as context Im trying to get a list of all existing records IDs of a custom object. I tried doing that by using the custom object search API and since it can only return 100 objects at once I have to send some 700 requests to get all records however I run into the secondly rate limit quite fast (after about 7 requests while trying in sandbox with only 1000 objects). On the documentation page it says this endpoint is exempt from the 10 second API call limit.

Is there a better approach to get all the existing obj IDs or other workaround I can use?

Im using the official nodejs API client framework

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**Author:** ![HubDoPete](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/hubdopete/32/106153_2.png) [@HubDoPete](https://community.hubspot.com/u/HubDoPete)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/custom-object-search-api-rate-limit/95978/2 "2023-12-13T15:02:13Z")

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Hi Patrick,

For that many objects, I recommend considering the new Export API.

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best

Pete