# How to get get all global variables?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005
**Category:** General
**Created:** [4 March 2021 12:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005 "2021-03-04T12:21:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@sathishkumarc14](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sathishkumarc14)
#### Post date: [4 March 2021 12:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/1 "2021-03-04T12:21:30Z")
I need to get all global context variables. Is there any function to get all global variable?
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### Author:  [@henrycosta05](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henrycosta05)
#### Post date: [4 March 2021 19:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/2 "2021-03-04T19:04:26Z")
hi @sathishkumarc14,
have you tried change node?
OR
using function node
[https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/writing-functions#global](https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/writing-functions#global)
something like below piece of code.
var xpto = global.get("xpto");
var xpto2 = global.get("xpto2");
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [4 March 2021 20:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/3 "2021-03-04T20:09:04Z")
There is a setting in the settings.js file that exposes the top-level of global and so lets you get a catalogue of all of the variables. Sorry, the details escape me right now but it is in the docs I'm sure.
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [4 March 2021 23:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/4 "2021-03-04T23:53:40Z")
Good question. I am not aware of a way to get all the context with a single function.
As @TotallyInformation mentioned you can do a change in `settings.js` , more specifically setting the property `exportGlobalContextKeys` to true. This will allow you to get a list of keys with the function `global.keys()`. Such list may be used to programmatically retrieve all the context. Another alternative is to read the files that hold the context persisted in the filesystem. In a raspberry pi you can find these files in the folder `/home/pi/.node-red/context/`
Code example:
```auto
let keys = global.keys();
for (let k of keys) {
node.warn("Key = " + k);
node.warn(global.get(k));
}
return msg;
```
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### Author:  [@sathishkumarc14](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sathishkumarc14)
#### Post date: [5 March 2021 04:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/5 "2021-03-05T04:24:14Z")
Thank you all for great information.
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [5 March 2021 18:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/6 "2021-03-05T18:14:50Z")
I forgot that it is possible to [get multiples values in a single get statement.](https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/writing-functions) which results that it is possible to use a single statement in a function node to get all the global context variables.
```auto
msg.payload = global.get(global.keys());
```
The result is an array with each and every object stored in the global context.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 March 2021 18:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-get-all-global-variables/42005/7 "2021-03-19T18:14:57Z")
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