how to get more than 100 items in a rest call in SP workflow

pathetically, sharepoint workflow bombed when i tried to get the __next parameter

with

System.ApplicationException: HTTP 500  {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore



so i changed the call to say gt ID - initially ID= 0 and when i looped through the first 100 i set the ID to the new id's - then I ran the call again - gt ID so it got the next group