# How can I make a bulk request to an API instead of a individual request?

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/how-can-i-make-a-bulk-request-to-an-api-instead-of-a-individual-request/564>\
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**Tags:** Using-APIs, Building-Flows\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-can-i-make-a-bulk-request-to-an-api-instead-of-a-individual-request/564 "2020-05-21T23:05:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Hoban](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/patrick_hoban/32/224_2.png) [@Patrick\_Hoban](https://community.parabola.io/u/Patrick_Hoban)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-can-i-make-a-bulk-request-to-an-api-instead-of-a-individual-request/564/1 "2020-05-21T23:05:01Z")

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Hi, I use a couple of APIs such as TrueMail and Mailshake that can accept both individual requests and bulk requests. In my flow I have been making individual requests to the API, but I am hitting rate limits by not using the bulk requests. How can I do this within Parabola?

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**Author:** ![sachi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/sachi/32/10_2.png) [@sachi](https://community.parabola.io/u/sachi)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/how-can-i-make-a-bulk-request-to-an-api-instead-of-a-individual-request/564/2 "2020-05-22T19:20:28Z")

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Hey Patrick! Can you clarify if this is for the API Import, API Export, or API Enrichment?

In general, the answer is “yes”. You need to use a few additional steps to build the array that will be included in the payload. Check out Brian’s response on this other topic for more info on how to accomplish this: [Passing variables to API Import](https://community.parabola.io/t/passing-variables-to-api-import/484/8)