# Missing API for getting just the count of a key range?

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/missing-api-for-getting-just-the-count-of-a-key-range/444>\
**Category:** FoundationDB Core\
**Created:** [May 21, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/missing-api-for-getting-just-the-count-of-a-key-range/444 "2018-05-21T09:23:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![amirouche](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/amirouche/32/2096_2.png) [@amirouche](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/amirouche)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/missing-api-for-getting-just-the-count-of-a-key-range/444/13 "2018-09-09T16:11:24Z")

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This reply in another topic is helpful [Getting the number of key/value pairs](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/getting-the-number-of-key-value-pairs/189/6?u=amirouche) it propose to manually build statistic but automate it a little bit. Also it seems like it also useful for doing a random key lookup.

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