API Pagination Strategies

About

This skill empowers developers to build production-ready paginated endpoints by providing standardized implementation patterns for various data retrieval strategies. It enables Claude to generate optimized database queries, handle response metadata, and adhere to performance best practices such as indexing and result capping. Whether you are building administrative tables using offset pagination or high-traffic social feeds requiring infinite scroll via cursor-based tokens, this skill ensures your API remains responsive and scalable as your datasets grow.

Key Features

• Standardized JSON response formatting with pagination metadata
• 11 GitHub stars
• Cursor-based pagination for infinite scroll and real-time feeds
• Offset and limit implementation for simple data sets
• Keyset pagination for high-performance large dataset traversal
• Performance optimization guidance for database indexing and query limits

Use Cases

• Building paginated REST or GraphQL endpoints for web applications
• Implementing infinite scroll features for mobile apps or social media feeds
• Optimizing database performance for large-scale data exports and collections