# Fetching Options

**URL:** <https://community.pinecone.io/t/fetching-options/322>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/fetching-options/322 "2022-03-30T17:14:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![startakovsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/startakovsky/32/119_2.png) [@startakovsky](https://community.pinecone.io/u/startakovsky)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/fetching-options/322/1 "2022-03-30T17:14:16Z")

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Hello Pinecone Folks!

I want to learn about options for generic vector retrieval, and have seen [this](https://www.pinecone.io/docs/limits/) page, on the top of which says there _may_ be workarounds.

If there are workarounds, please let me know them. Thank you!

Specific How-to’s:

- Let’s say I want to retrieve all the vectors in a namespace, or a subset of namespaces. How do I do that?
- Let’s say I want to retrieve all the vectors within a namespace and filter by a specific metadata filter criteria. How do I do that? I imagine that will be useful for certain troubleshooting purposes.
- How do I retrieve all the vectors in an index?
- Optionally, or a special case of the above: how do I simply retrieve all vector IDs in an index?

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**Author:** ![rajat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/rajat/32/3037_2.png) [@rajat](https://community.pinecone.io/u/rajat)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/fetching-options/322/2 "2022-04-01T14:02:45Z")

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Hey @startakovsky, We currently don’t have any workarounds for the fetch use cases that you mentioned, just the fetch API. We are working on features that would let you dump/retrieve data more easily.

Regarding your questions:

- As of now, we don’t allow cross-namespace operations. The best method I would suggest would be to keep a copy of the ids separate from Pinecone for ease.
- We don’t support filtering on fetches yet, just on queries. However you can send dummy queries with filters to troubleshoot vectors in a namespace. Just set `include_data=True,include_metadata=True` in the query request.
- We unfortunately don’t have any direct features to give you back all the vectors/ids in the index at the moment. But those are WIP and hopefully we can release these features soon.

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**Author:** ![startakovsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/startakovsky/32/119_2.png) [@startakovsky](https://community.pinecone.io/u/startakovsky)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/fetching-options/322/3 "2022-04-08T20:49:15Z")

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@rajat Thank you for this reply, I’ll stand by for updates.