Action list (All constituents) - Filter by Action Date and Category?

New to the Sky API, and loving it so far! We need to retrieve lists of Actions that match a specific action date range and a specific action category (Meeting, Phone Call, etc.). We may have data that has been imported/added far after the actual action date, so using date_added to filter doesn't give good results. In the database view / query, we can filter exactly how we need to in this way to get exactly what we need, however I can't find a good solution through the SKY API other than grabbing a lot of extra data through lots of multiple API calls, and filtering it post retrieval. Has anyone ran into this business requirement, and found an efficient way of getting actions within a specific action date range, and/or of a specific category?