Get number of items in SP list fast

[xecho]

Hi,

I have a SP list with close to 5000 items. I just want to have a quick count of how many items there are actually in this list.

I can get the number of items with Flow through GetItems, but that is really slow, it is taking around 2 minutes.

Is there any other solution which would be much faster?

Thanks,

Bart

[Expiscornovus · Accepted solution]

Hi @xecho,

The list should have a property called ItemCount. You can retrieve that via REST API. Just tested it, should take less than 1 second 😁

1. Setup of the flow

_api/web/lists/getbytitle('@{variables('ListName')}')/ItemCount

2. Test run with a list with 14000+ items

[xecho]

That worked great.

thanks!

[Robert94]

and how would you filter this list before counting?

[xecho]

Not sure what you mean, it is an item count, a number, so nothing to sort :-).

The list in Powerapps can be sorted in Powerapps by Sort(listname, variable_for_sorting, Ascending/Descending);

[Robert94]

for example I want to get all the items in that sharepoint list that have the assign column as true (using a flow)

[Expiscornovus]

Hi @Robert94,

That ItemCount is just a property in the list settings which retrieves and tracks all items in the list. As far as I am aware you cannot combine it with a $filter query parameter and the list items method.

But I might be wrong, let me have a quick look in my development tenant 😁

[Expiscornovus]

Hi @Robert94,

It still looks like combining those two is not possible.

However, in your setup you might be able to just first filter and count the number of items afterwards with a length function. For the OP that was not an option, but that might be an option for you 😁

Below is an example.

This is the URI I used, which checks if Assigns is equal to true (1) with a $filter query parameter

_api/web/lists/getbytitle('@{variables('ListName')}')/Items?$select=Title,Id,Assign&$filter=Assign eq 1

This is the expression to count the number of items from the result.

length(body('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['value'])