GET most recent "n" results

Developing with Prismic
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Can someone point me to the API docs that reference getting the latest "number" results of a particular type?

For example, I would like to get the most recent "n" results of a content type that is being created.

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Hey Tom,

I’ll be happy to help, but I just want to be sure what you mean. You want to for example do something like “Get the latest 12 blog posts”? Also what technology are you using?

Thanks.

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Thank you Phil for the quick response. I appreciate it.
And yes, exactly. “Get the latest 12 blog posts” would be perfect.

We are using Node and GraphQL.

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OK in that case you would use a combination of the SortBy (to get the latest)and first (to get less than 20 docs) arguments in your query to make a query like:

query{
  allBlog_posts(sortBy:meta_firstPublicationDate_DESC, first:12){
    edges{
      node{
        title
        _meta{
          firstPublicationDate
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You can read more about sortBy here:
https://prismic.io/docs/graphql/query-the-api/order-your-results#6_0-sort-by-publication-date

Also the first argument here:

Reading about pagination in Prismic’s GraphQL api might help too:
https://prismic.io/docs/graphql/query-the-api/paginate-your-results

:grinning:

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Perfect. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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