# Does the continuation token has any expiring condition?

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/does-the-continuation-token-has-any-expiring-condition/3436>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Tags:** help\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/does-the-continuation-token-has-any-expiring-condition/3436 "2020-02-06T12:21:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![kush.jajal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kush.jajal](https://community.sonatype.com/u/kush.jajal)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/does-the-continuation-token-has-any-expiring-condition/3436/1 "2020-02-06T12:21:50Z")

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When using API the continuation token that gets generated does it have any validity or any expiring condition or is it encoded enough to reproduce same results?

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**Author:** ![mmartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mmartz](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mmartz)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/does-the-continuation-token-has-any-expiring-condition/3436/2 "2020-02-06T14:27:02Z")

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Looking at the code for the Tags APIs it appears the continuation token is basically just a pointer to the last entry in the previous page, and is just used to get the next page of results. As a result it will never expire. Without looking at the queries every API in the system uses I can’t be 100% sure but I believe they all follow the same pattern.