# Query Value and not Key in Realtime Database?

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/query-value-and-not-key-in-realtime-database/259221>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [October 5, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/query-value-and-not-key-in-realtime-database/259221 "2019-10-05T18:05:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![conradisrugged](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/conradisrugged/32/46117_2.png) [@conradisrugged](https://community.thunkable.com/u/conradisrugged)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/query-value-and-not-key-in-realtime-database/259221/1 "2019-10-05T18:05:53Z")

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Good day Thunkers!

I’m hoping someone can help me, I have been trying to develop an app, and Thunkable has been absolutely great up to the point of needing to implement a search feature.

Basically I want my users to record a value in a specific key field, and then have another user be able to search for that value and have it return the user who recorded the values profile.

I have figured that I could send some information to Firebase once the value has been found to also return the parent of the child that the value is in, hence the UserID.

What I need to do now is be able to insert these queries or strings into the logic of the Thunkable blocks. I would be willing to work with the WebAPI as well to achieve this, I just don’t know where to start. I have been working with trial and error to no avail.

I am frustrated because I know what I want to achieve, and how to achieve it, I just feel limited by the blocks or my lack of knowledge compared to others on how to implement something like this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/query-value-and-not-key-in-realtime-database/259221/2 "2019-10-14T14:57:28Z")

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Hi,

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Create a loop to search for the information you need in all nodes

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/query-value-and-not-key-in-realtime-database/259221/3 "2024-11-08T12:08:39Z")

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