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Solution to use Recursive call to retrieve more than 5000 items in SharePoint REST API var url = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('DocumentList')/items?$top=1000"; //By default REST API retrieve 100 items. By using top we can retrieve up to  5000 items     var response = response || [];  // this variable is used for storing list items     function GetListItems(){         $.ajax({             url: url,             method: "GET",             headers: {                 "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose"             },             success: function(data){                 response = response.concat(data.d.results);                 if (data.d.__next) {                     url = data.d.__next; // to get the next set of items                     GetListItems();//Recursive function                 }             },             error: function(error){