# Help Needed: POST Web API
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [September 3, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855 "2021-09-03T06:19:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@kareem](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kareem)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/1 "2021-09-03T06:19:36Z")
Hi all,
So currently I am testing out an API for sms.to as I needed a workaround for mobile phone verification for an app. For context, in my country email verification just wont cut it due to phone/facebook authentication being a widespread norm (so without it, my app’s UX is instantly faulty). That puts firebase authentication out of the way, though I will still use it as the database.
The app is a mulit-vendor e-commerce app with payments and all that, but for some reason I am unable to put the correct body block so that the request is successfull so I keep getting “null” as my response.
I looked throught the other posts ([1](https://community.thunkable.com/t/post-data-web-api/1267637/4),[2](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-for-web-api/1369985/6),[3](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-with-web-api-post-request/624457/8),[4](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-with-api-post/562993/2),[5](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-with-web-api-post/763173/3),[6](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-with-web-api-post-requests-and-body/42865)) but I still cant figure out how to put the body blocks, and I tested it with postman and it works so I presume my problem here must be the blocks. Below are the images of my blocks, api documentation, and succesfull postman test.
**sms.to api docs** (I did consider Twilio as it is mentioned a lot here, but unfortuantely it has no support for my country)
**Postman POST Test** (successful, I was trying to understand whether -d goes in the body or query parameters in thunkable blocks, looks like its a body thing)
**Thunkable Project Blocks and Test** (is my method to collect and display the response correct? as well as setting the body?)
To reiterate, my assumption is that the response is null here because there is a problem with my blocks. Any clues?
_Edit: fixed spelling errors_
_Edit 2: The solution should be below this text. Muneer’s answer was 100% correct, I tested it again wihtout the_ `generate JSON from object` _and just put the_ `response`, `status`, _and_ `error` _blocks in and it worked perfectly (no backslashes anymore). Good luck to all who face this problem, I hope this helps!_
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/2 "2021-09-03T12:49:41Z")
You are not using any error handler so better show the full `response` of the API call and also show the `error` and `status` (all the green blocks of the API `POST` call.
Without these info you do not actually know what was the problem.
something similar to this `{"success":false,"status":401,"message":"Invalid Token"}`
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### Author:  [@kareem](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kareem)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/3 "2021-09-03T13:04:56Z")
Hi Muneer,
Thanks for the suggestion, so you mean something like this?
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/4 "2021-09-03T13:06:31Z")
Do not use `get object from JSON`. You the green blocks directly to just display whatever comes from the API call.
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### Author:  [@kareem](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kareem)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/5 "2021-09-03T13:15:55Z")
Got it, switched it to `generate JSON from object` and that did the trick. Here is the response:
**Blocks**
**Thunkable Preview**
**Thunkable Live Test**
Thank you so much for the help Muneer!
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/6 "2021-09-03T13:19:20Z")
Status of **200** means success. Good luck to you for the rest of the app.
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### Author:  [@hdawc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/hdawc)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/7 "2021-09-10T18:45:22Z")
Your API key and phone number are showing @kareem
> [@Help Needed: POST Web API](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/5):
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> Got it, switched it to generate JSON from object and that did the trick. Here is the response: Blocks Thunkable Preview Thunkable Live Test Thank you so much for the help Muneer!
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### Author:  [@kareem](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kareem)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/8 "2021-09-12T20:09:45Z")
@hdawc Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out, I have fixed it now.
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-post-web-api/1484855/9 "2024-11-08T13:17:00Z")