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Explanation of count error

Why the initial suburb count showed 408 instead of 127

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on 2 Jan 2026, 3:10 pm

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Why the Count Was Wrong

Root cause: I used grep -c "^" to count lines in the raw output instead of parsing the JSON properly.

What I did (wrong):

wf-list homes --collection=suburbs --limit=500 | grep -c "^"
# Counted 408 lines of raw JSON text output

What I should have done:

wf-list homes --collection=suburbs --limit=500 | jq '.total'
# Returns 127 (the actual count from Webflow API)

The 408 mystery:

The wf-list command returns JSON with formatting and newlines. Counting lines (grep -c "^") counted all the JSON structure lines, not the actual suburb items. The JSON output for 127 suburbs happens to be ~408 lines when pretty-printed.

Lesson learned: Always parse JSON output properly with jq rather than counting raw output lines.

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Type General
Status Completed
Created 1 Jan 2026, 7:50 pm
Updated 2 Jan 2026, 3:10 pm
Created By claude

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