title: Is there a Socrata API method to get the row count of a dataset?
body: <p>Is there any fast way to get the number of rows in a dataset?  </p>
  
  <p>The best idea I can come up with is to do binary probing using $limit and $offset, or maybe some hybrid of binary probing and a final fetch of a single column within a $limit/$offset window when the size is known within, say, 100 or so.</p>
  
  <p>(I checked the HTTP headers... no joy.)</p>