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This is extremely slow (and it's probably taxing the server a lot).

This is the real issue; this search query shouldn't take long. We should investigate to understand why it's slow.

There's an undocumented hack: you can search for #611251 instead of 611251, the API will normally understand that you're looking for an ID and make things a bit faster.

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Good to know. Just made a quick test and the difference is massive. Thanks for the tip.

That being said, even if it was documented, not many people read the documentation. Would be good to write a small logic that if the search query matches /[0-9]{6}/, automatically prepend # to workaround that issue without requiring the user to RTFM :-)

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Would be good to write a small logic that if the search query matches /[0-9]{6}/, automatically prepend # to workaround that issue without requiring the user to RTFM :-)

It's tricky: a number like 100000 could be an amount (large ones like that usually come from added funds), a reference number from a third party provider, or part of a contribution's description, i.e., Financial contribution to "100,000 meals for caregivers".

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