Hi everyone, Belated Happy New Year! Relatively new user here so hopefully I’m not missing something basic. I did search the community forums and noticed that a few others ran into this in 2020-21, so I’m hoping it’s been fixed now. I’m trying to parse data from an API endpoint whose response is …

I linked the wrong post before. Correct post [image] I want to get HTTP data using Integromat and display it in Adalo Get Help Hello everyone! I want to get data from HTTP and display it in list format with Adalo. I am sorry that the information will be in Japanese beca…

You are correct that only arrays can be collections. An external collection can also not have nested arrays. I would need to see the use case, but having your endpoint return an array is important, so it would be: [{ "authed_user_follows": true, "block_explicit": false, "workout_counts": [ { …

I guess by the time my post got passed the spam moderator I’ve found a workaround. I set up a “Custom Action” and this is able to return all the values. The only challenge seems to be that this can only happen on specific user actions and I’m not sure about the performance cost of this vs making API…

Thanks for the reply Steven ( @TKOTC ). Unfortunately, I do not control the API response because that is from a public API of a fitness device. I supposed I could dump the data form the public API into some other database (like Airtable or something) and then expose an API endpoint that Adalo likes. T…

Yes, putting this through Xano or Integromat to transform the data is what you will need. I believe this is similar to what you might want to do. [image] I want to get multiple API data Get Help Hello! I’m Japanese, so I’m sorry if the explanation is difficult to underst…

Thanks so much! - I’ll give this a shot if custom actions does not work out for what I’m doing right now. Either way, I think at some point I’ll have a use case for creating an intermediary datastore that can feed into other places (incuding adalo) so your video will be very helpful then! Out of cu…

You can trigger it on page load as well, HOWEVER, there is a bug that does not allow you to use the results of the custom action if you do it on page load. So if you are saving results to an external source, custom action on page load is fine. If you want to retrieve information to display on page l…

Thanks for the clear explanation. Now that I’m aware of the limitations, I feel like I can workaround them a bit with some design hacks. I appreciate the quick replies and will mark this as solved. Have a great day/ night/ week! :slight_smile:

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I linked the wrong post before.

Correct post

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