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Currently PlayFab does not provide such API to do the work directly. However, since Leadboards are based on Statistics, hence we can count the amount of a specific Statistic type possessed by players to estimate the total number of entries in a Leaderboard, here is a workaround you can consider:

1. Let’s suppose we want to count the number of entries in a Leaderboard for Statistic s, and, the values set for s are greater than 0.
2. Create a segment for players whose values of Statistic s are great than 0, this will exclude those players who haven’t got into the Leaderboard yet, which gives an estimate number of entries for this Leaderboard:

   

3. Call Server/GetPlayersInSegment API to page through all players in that newly created segment, of course we don’t want to actually parse through all the players, instead, what we really want the ProfilesInSegment property which indicates the amount of players in that segment returned from the API call, in other words, the estimate number of total entries for the aforementioned Leaderboard. Therefore, here is sample request:

{

  "SegmentId":
"id_of_the_newly_created_segment", //segmentId can be retrieved using
Server/GetAllSegments

  "MaxBatchSize": 1, //minimum value
to be set, this intends to reduce the overhead cost on the PlayFab service

  "SecondsToLive":1 //minimum value
to be set, this intends to reduce the overhead cost on the PlayFab service

}

Please also note that the GetPlayersInSegment API is limited to being called 30 times in one minute. You will be returned an error if you exceed this threshold. Therefore, it’s suggested that you cache the value of the total number in Title Data or something similar, for instance, a database hosted by yourself.