What the Search Console API actually returns
Google's API is generous and quiet about its own limits. These posts are those limits, measured. They apply to your scripts and your dashboards exactly as much as to us.
Ask for a month in one request and some of the days come back a fraction full
A month of Search Console query data in one request is ranked by clicks across the whole range, then cut. Some days come back a fraction full, and nothing errors.
25,000
rows per request, and the ordering decides which are cut
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Ask Search Console for one day of keywords and it stops at 5,000
Ask the Search Console API for one day of keyword rows and it stops at exactly 5,000. No error, no truncation flag. How to spot it, and what it quietly breaks.
5,000
rows, the cap on one day of keywords
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