: If you're using SolrJ, QueryResponse#getLimitingFacets() does what you want, : but still it is doing client-side filtering of the values less than the number : found. : : Currently that's the only way to do it.
I've opened an issue to track this as a new feature, and posted some ideas i have about extending the concept... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1712 -Hoss