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API Call Node

2 min read Updated July 23, 2026

The API Call node makes an HTTP request to any external API. You control the method, headers, query parameters, body, and authentication, and the node can retry on failure, extract a value with JSONPath, and cache the response.

What it does

  • Sends GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD, or OPTIONS requests.
  • Authenticates with none, basic, bearer, or API key.
  • Retries failed requests and caches responses to save calls.
  • Pulls a specific value out of the response with a JSONPath expression.

Configuration reference

Field Required What it does
URL Yes The endpoint to call. Supports variable tags.
Method Yes The HTTP method. Defaults to GET.
Headers No Header name and value pairs. Values support variable tags.
Query params No Key and value pairs added to the URL.
Body No The request body as text or JSON. Supports variable tags.
Auth No Authentication type and settings: none, basic, bearer, or apiKey.
Response config No Timeout, retry count from 0 to 5, JSONPath extraction, and response caching with a cache time.

Named outputs

The node exposes four named outputs you can reference downstream:

  • [[status] from <id>] the HTTP status code
  • [[headers] from <id>] the response headers
  • [[data] from <id>] the parsed response body, with nested access like [[data.items] from <id>]
  • [[extractedData] from <id>] the JSONPath result

Plain [Input from <id>] returns the whole response. See Data flow and variables.

Local or Cloud, and cost

API Call runs in both Local and Cloud modes and costs 1 credit per run.

Worked example: fetch data with a bearer token

  1. Set the URL to https://api.example.com/v1/items and the method to GET.
  2. Set auth type to bearer and the token to [[apiKey] from trigger-1].
  3. Reference the results downstream as [[data] from apiCall-1].
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