# Http API Call in NodeRed

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**Created:** [21 May 2020 20:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-in-nodered/27050 "2020-05-21T20:51:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chaos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/chaos/32/107061_2.png) [@Chaos](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Chaos)\
**Post date:** [21 May 2020 20:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-in-nodered/27050/1 "2020-05-21T20:51:03Z")

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Hi  
I am wanting to get crypo prices from coinmarketcap. I have an API Key and the url `https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com. But where do i start!. I have an inject, function, http request node and a debug node. But have never tried anything like this before. Is this quite a difficult thing to accomplish for a beginner, or pretty straight forward. I can normally find some similar code and just modify it to suit but i am at a bit of a loss with this one.

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [21 May 2020 20:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-in-nodered/27050/2 "2020-05-21T20:58:02Z")

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Its not terribly difficult. And you are on the right track with the http request.

Are you getting anything in the debug?

I would definitely recommend you watch this [playlist first](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyNBB9VCLmo1hyO-4fIZ08gqFcXBkHy-6) to get familiar with the basics of node-red. They're quite light and only a few minutes each.

And there are tons of helpful folk on this forum who will help out if you try first & get stuck.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [21 May 2020 21:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-in-nodered/27050/3 "2020-05-21T21:01:58Z")

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Hi @Chaos

in addition to the links @Steve-Mcl shared, I also suggest you have a look at the Cookbook - it contains some recipes for the HTTP Request node - [https://cookbook.nodered.org/#http-requests](https://cookbook.nodered.org/#http-requests)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [20 July 2020 21:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-in-nodered/27050/4 "2020-07-20T21:07:00Z")

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