Politeness: More than 3 expansions, or more GET requests?

Hi there! I need to get a bunch of order data with all fields expanded, to store them for data analysis. It'll be all orders for several stores, so it's quite a lot of data, though the GET requests for each merchant ID will be done serially.

The API documentation asks that we expand at most three fields per API call. I would prefer to lower the rate of my queries and include all of the expands, but I suppose I could do separate queries and merge the documents if absolutely necessary. Is it capital-B Bad to expand more? Wouldn't doubling or tripling the number of queries be more of a strain for Clover?

Edit: Perhaps there is some other way to get a data dump from Clover? Surely there are plenty of retailers who want to pull their retail data down. Maybe I'm missing another option that's preferable to the REST API for this task?

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Miguel commented · Jun 20, 2017 at 10:18 PM

What are the requests and expansions?

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Austin Reynolds Miguel commented · Jun 20, 2017 at 10:23 PM

Orders, all fields expanded. Well, at least one level down. So something like:

https://api.clover.com/v3/merchants/merchant_id/orders?expand=lineItems.modifications&expand=customers&expand=payments&expand=credits&access_token=my_token

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