Common operations
Get the total count of the elements in a collection
Request type: GET
Format: {{baseurl}}/api/default/{{entity}}/$count
If you want to know how many items meet a condition, you can use the $count path segment.
Pagination over a collection
Request type: GET
Format: {{baseurl}}/api/default/{{entity}}?$skip={{itemstoskip}}&$top={{itemstotake}}
You can apply pagination for the results returned form Sitefinity web services using the $skip and $top system query options and specifying the number of items you want to retrieve. You can also combine paging and other filtering and sorting options. For example, to retrieve total count of a collection of news items, sort it by Title and get the first items form the collection must use: http://mysite.com/api/default/newsitems?$orderby=Title asc&$skip=0&$top=2&$count=true
Get only selected fields of an item
Request type: GET
Format: {{baseurl}}/api/default/{{entity}}({{item_with_taxon_id}})?$select=Title, Tags
To get the value of selected fields for an item, use the $select operator and specify the names of the desired fields.