# Get body part from an URL to use the data

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-body-part-from-an-url-to-use-the-data/1161179
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-body-part-from-an-url-to-use-the-data/1161179 "2021-03-11T21:30:54Z")
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### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-body-part-from-an-url-to-use-the-data/1161179/7 "2021-03-11T21:56:14Z")

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For us to be able to check whether or not it works, we would need the full URL.

Please see this tutorial information and video that I made:

> [@API JSON Tutorial (Video)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/api-json-tutorial-video/1140575):
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> Using APIs in Thunkable and understanding how to parse JSON to get certain data from the API response is both a popular and a difficult aspect of using Thunkable. It’s not so much difficult because of Thunkable but because every API url format is different, every API documentation is different, every JSON response is different, etc. In this video, I spend a lot of time talking you through some best practices. It’s not a quick tutorial because if you rush through setting up an API in Thunkable, …

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