What are the recommendations while using Embase API?

Here are things to know before getting started with Embase API:

1. Embase API accepts GET and POST requests.
2. Results can be returned in either XML or JSON.
3. For very long query strings (>2k) it is recommended to use the POST requests.
4. Only run API requests sequentially, avoid sending parallel requests.
5. Recommended use of Embase API is for retrieval of result set <100,000 records.
6. For better performance, split the query into smaller result set (e.g. split it by publication date/month/year).
7. The results are paginated and maximum of 200 results per batch/page can be retrieved at a time. Loop through the results using 'start' and 'count' for retrieval of the records. Avoid having queries where the 'start' value in the pagination exceeds 100,000.
8. Retrieval of the 'last pages' in a large result set gets progressively slow and causes high server load.