Fix pagination bug

[rian-dolphin]

Related to #865 #868 and #886. I noticed it when using list_ticker_news and this change fixed it for my news use case.

This implementation should retain the current behaviour unless the user explicitly passes a limit, in which case it is respected. It will paginate until the limit is satisfied.

[justinpolygon]

Hey @rian-dolphin, thanks again for submitting the PR and highlighting this across multiple issues. After reviewing the broader set of use cases (including your list_ticker_news example), as discussed we decided to take a slightly different approach by adding a top-level pagination flag to the RESTClient. This allows users to explicitly disable auto-pagination when needed, while keeping the default behavior unchanged.

With pagination=True (the default), the client continues to fetch all pages, treating limit as the page size. If you set pagination=False, the client stops after the first page and enforces limit as a strict cap on the number of results.

Here’s how it works with your use case:

from polygon import RESTClient

client = RESTClient(trace=True, pagination=False)

news = []
for item in client.list_ticker_news("AAPL", limit=3):
    news.append(item)

print(news)

This will return exactly 3 results — no extra pages fetched. The fix is available in v1.15.0, just run pip install -U polygon-api-client� to get the latest release, and we’ve updated the README with more details on how this flag works.

Thanks again for the nudge to fix this.