Algolia's instant search pagination not returning the correct pages - algolia

Question

I've created an index with 2166 objects in it. In the configuration, I have this:
cProjectSearch.addWidget(
instantsearch.widgets.hits({
container: '#hits-container',
hitsPerPage: 200,
templates: {
item: getMustacheTemplate('hit'),
empty: getMustacheTemplate('no-results')
}
})
);
cProjectSearch.addWidget(
instantsearch.widgets.pagination({
container: '#cp-pagination-container',
scrollTo: false
})
);
When the search starts, it returns the 1st 200 results on page one. But the pagination widget only shows:
1 2 3 4 5 › »
and when I go to to page 5, it shows:
« ‹ 1 2 3 4 5
Pages 6 - 10 are not shown.
How can I fix this?

Answer 1

The is the default behaviour in Algolia, the total number of hits return is set to 1000 for performance reason. That's why you only have 5 page (200 hits * 5 pages). But you can override this parameter with the settings paginationLimitedTo, you can find more informations about it in the documentation.
Also note that the hits widget doesn't accept the hitsPerPage attribute. You can pass it through the searchParameters attribute on the InstantSearch instance instead you can find more informations about it in the documentation.
instantsearch({
appId: "xxx",
apiKey: "xxx",
indexName: "index_name"
searchParameters: {
hitsPerPage: 200
},
});