# \$1skip
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In Amazon DocumentDB, the `$skip` operator is used to offset the starting point of the query results, allowing you to retrieve a specific subset of the matching documents. This is particularly useful in pagination scenarios, where you want to retrieve subsequent pages of results.

**Parameters**
+ `skip`: The number of documents to skip before returning the remaining documents.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example demonstrates how to use the `$skip` operator to retrieve the second page of results (documents 11-20) from a collection.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.collection.insert([
  { "name": "Document 1" },
  { "name": "Document 2" },
  { "name": "Document 3" },
  { "name": "Document 4" },
  { "name": "Document 5" },
  { "name": "Document 6" },
  { "name": "Document 7" },
  { "name": "Document 8" },
  { "name": "Document 9" },
  { "name": "Document 10" },
  { "name": "Document 11" },
  { "name": "Document 12" },
  { "name": "Document 13" },
  { "name": "Document 14" },
  { "name": "Document 15" },
  { "name": "Document 16" },
  { "name": "Document 17" },
  { "name": "Document 18" },
  { "name": "Document 19" },
  { "name": "Document 20" }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.collection.find({}, { "name": 1 })
             .skip(10)
             .limit(10);
```

**Output**

```
[
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 11" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 12" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 13" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 14" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 15" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 16" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 17" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 18" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 19" },
  { "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "name" : "Document 20" }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$skip` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function main() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const collection = db.collection('collection');

  const results = await collection.find({}, { projection: { name: 1 } })
                                 .skip(10)
                                 .limit(10)
                                 .toArray();

  console.log(results);

  await client.close();
}

main();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def main():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client.mydatabase
    collection = db.collection

    results = list(collection.find({}, {'name': 1})
                   .skip(10)
                   .limit(10))

    print(results)

    client.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
```

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