Limit connection sync records returned

Connector Questions & Issues
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We wanted to perform a sample sync connection to return only one record result so our users could analyze the sample record and check which information is relevant or not. However, our team couldn’t find an easy way to do it using Airbyte API endpoints, we believe a limit parameter in the synchronization endpoint could be very useful.

Did anyone have a similar issue and found a workaround for this situation?

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Hi @MarcosWendell, there’s no straightforward way to do this and honestly I have not encountered this request before! Something you might try doing is running a full refresh sync on a small set of data, then adding a record to it and then running an incremental sync. If you delete that data from the full refresh, you will only be left with the data from the second sync. This definitely sounds like a useful feature and I’d encourage you to open a feature request on GitHub!