Get post count for posts with specific custom field

Hi, I’m having trouble figuring out the API request to retrieve posts within a specific category and having a specific custom field value.

For instance, one request would be:

https://local.wordpress.dev/api/get_category_posts/?category_slug=tracks&meta_key=participant&meta_value=Zadie%20Xa

The category of the post is ‘tracks’, the custom field key is ‘participant’, and and the custom field value is ‘Zadie Xa’. The custom field value would be passed by the post title.

From this call, I would like to retrieve the post “count”, i.e., the number of posts within the ‘tracks’ category that are associated with a particular participant (marked by a custom field on the post).

Is there an API request that will return this?

Thanks, and let me know if anything needs clarification.

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