I've used a number of other application API's that followed the JSON organizations standard v1.0 (http://jsonapi.org/format/).
There is one component of this specification that I have found particularly useful, and that is the pagination specification (http://jsonapi.org/format/#fetching-pagination)
Having recently used Clowders pagination on search results, I felt it might improve usability to consider adopting the JSON standard approach.
Specifically adding a "links" section like below...
"links": { "self": "http://example.com/articles",
"next": "http://example.com/articles?page[offset]=2",
"last": "http://example.com/articles?page[offset]=10"
}
The example uses offsets, but could just as easily been a "from-to" pattern.
The nice thing about this is that it simplifies the approach the consumer must implement to page through the results. They typically make the first call with a "priming" fetch that specifies a number of results to return (eg. page=25) or (eg. From=1&To=25). After that they don't have to keep track of any counters, they can just use the links provided in the result set for further navigation.
If there isn't a "previous" or "first" then you are at the beginning. If there isn't a "next" or "last" then you are at the end. For me, the "self", "first" and "last" are not as useful but I can imagine for some they are.