Question: Get all nodes within a bounding box

[betsch85]

While reading through the docs a few days ago I thought I saw a function to query all nodes within a bounding box, and now, for the life of me, I can't seem to find it. But maybe I misremembered, is there such a function?

i.e. instead of having a data file for city 1 through N I want a to load a PBF from a whole country and then query different bounding boxes for cities 1 through N