How do I return the response from an HTTP GET request for use in future steps?

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Mitch McAlister : ok. that’s helpful… I’ll see if I can run with that. thanks again

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Mitch McAlister : one more question… how would I go about incrementing the parameter values for each loop?

for the singleton POST, the parameter expression looks like this {{steps.getjobs.$[return_value.jobs[0].title](http://return_value.jobs[0].title)}} but that is just for the first records in the response… how do I enable the pameter expression to increment that jobs[0] value for each loop?

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Dylan Sather (Pipedream) : do these resources help? https://launchschool.com/books/javascript/read/loops_iterating

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Dylan Sather (Pipedream) : or are you asking about something different?

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Mitch McAlister : I’m not really a js guy, so this is starting to go over my head. I was able to pull data from the step 2 response, and put the data into the parameters for step 3, but I think my path is specific to the 0 record. if I want to run the loop, should I just kill the parameter schema, and do the whole post in code?

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Dylan Sather (Pipedream) : I see what you mean now. You’ll want to do the whole thing in code. So in this example:

for (const job of steps.getjobs.$[return_value.jobs](http://return_value.jobs)) {
  console.log(job.id)
  console.log(job.title)
  // etc.
}

You essentially have access to each job's data within the loop. So you can access each job’s properties by referencing job.id, job.title, etc. You’ll want to pass the appropriate job property to each field in your POST request in the data block:

data: {
  url: job.absolute_url,
  location: job.location.name,
  // etc.
}
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Dylan Sather (Pipedream) : let me know if that makes sense

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Mitch McAlister : ok. thanks