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Count points

POST
/collections/:collection_name/points/count
POST
/collections/:collection_name/points/count
$curl -X POST http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/points/count \
>     -H "api-key: <apiKey>" \
>     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>     -d '{}'
200Successful
1{
2  "time": 1.1,
3  "status": "string",
4  "result": {
5    "count": 1
6  }
7}
Counts the number of points that match a specified filtering condition.
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api-keystring
API Key authentication via header

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired
Name of the collection to count in

Request

Request counts of points which matches given filtering condition
shard_keystring or uint64 or list of strings or uint64s or anyOptional

Specify in which shards to look for the points, if not specified - look in all shards

filterobject or anyOptional
Look only for points which satisfies this conditions
exactbooleanOptionalDefaults to true

If true, count exact number of points. If false, count approximate number of points faster. Approximate count might be unreliable during the indexing process. Default: true

Response

successful operation
timedouble
Time spent to process this request
statusstring
resultobject