# Unable to see results after using API from the MealDB
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761 "2020-12-18T12:28:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/21 "2020-12-22T19:21:02Z")
Oh the only problem I’ve got is that I constantly get the same results, no matter what i fill in as ingredient
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/22 "2020-12-23T06:43:42Z")
More like this then?
[https://x.thunkable.com/copy/922615c4b7f6d2cfb29c2c5eb1b4ef37](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/922615c4b7f6d2cfb29c2c5eb1b4ef37)
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/23 "2020-12-23T08:42:14Z")
Yes! I’ll combine this one with option 2!! Thanks a lot 🙂 😃
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/24 "2020-12-29T16:21:56Z")
Hi everyone! I have some questions…
I’ve tried to combine above options of you 😃 Unfortunately it won’t work, but I don’t know what I have to change…
I will put the screenshots below of the screens you see and in another post the coding!
Hopefully can someone help me out! 🤩 😊
 this is the first screen so starting on the GO button will bring you to the screen below:
If I click on SEARCH it won’t give me response, I will show you the coding in the post below…
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/25 "2020-12-29T16:22:59Z")
In the coding below you can see that I’ve tried to combine the coding of the list and the seek function, but I do something wrong…
 
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### Author:  [@secondaryaccount](https://community.thunkable.com/u/secondaryaccount)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/26 "2020-12-29T19:12:54Z")
You’re setting the JSON response to the variable “ingredient” but trying to get properties from the variable “recipe”. These two variables need to be the same so that you are getting a property from the JSON response, not from an empty list.
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/27 "2020-12-30T10:27:20Z")
It works now!! 😃 Thanks a lot 😊
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/28 "2021-01-05T18:34:17Z")
Hi all, it’s me again 😊 Hoping everyone had a good New Year’s Eve 😃 Also in 2021 I’ve got questions haha
I worked on the design of the app and some small details last week but I’m struggling now with something else: I want to show a specific recipe as soon as i click on it. If I look at the response of the API, I think I need the idMeal for that…
API when e.g. search for banana:
{
“meals”: [
{
“strMeal”: “Banana Pancakes”,
“strMealThumb”: “[https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/sywswr1511383814.jpg](https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/sywswr1511383814.jpg)”,
“idMeal”: “52855”
},
{
“strMeal”: “Callaloo Jamaican Style”,
“strMealThumb”: “[https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/ussyxw1515364536.jpg](https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/ussyxw1515364536.jpg)”,
“idMeal”: “52939”
},
{
“strMeal”: “Chocolate Avocado Mousse”,
“strMealThumb”: “[https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/uttuxy1511382180.jpg](https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/uttuxy1511382180.jpg)”,
“idMeal”: “52853”
}
]
}
I’ve tried a lot of options, also the one I will show you in the screenshots below, but ofc I don’t get want I want haha… Does someone sees what I’m doing wrong? 🤗 🤔
Here you can see the steps I take and in a post below this one I will show you the coding I have so far…
first i search in the searchscreen for banana (see coding in the next post)
I click in this example on the first recipe
would like to see in this screen the recipe and it’s ingredients/description. I used a listviewer for that, but I think that’s not the best element to show the data…
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/29 "2021-01-05T18:35:46Z")
And ofcourse, here the coding:
Coding of the searchscreen can be seen below:
Coding of the recipe result screen, still very happy that this works now 😃
And here I do things wrong:
Thanks a lot in advance already, hope someone can help me out!!
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/30 "2021-01-05T19:26:06Z")
Why are you using list viewer text items in the URL?
Just for you to have a better idea, put a label in the screen and assign list viewer text items to it to see the content.
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/31 "2021-01-05T19:43:55Z")
Thanks a lot for your reply!!! I replaced the listviewer for a label, but I don’t know if this was exactly what you meant or that I understood it wrong. I get no response atm so I think the last one haha. See below what I did 🙂
  
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/32 "2021-01-05T20:48:52Z")
Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t you want the ingredient value to be taken from a text input component rather than a label? Or do you have a bunch of labels pre-set like “chicken”, “beef”, “fish” etc. that the user clicks on to select an ingredient?
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/33 "2021-01-05T21:05:23Z")
Hi Tatiang, Thanks for the reply! I tried text input also indeed, but i get than the option to type something myself if i select a recipe. actually i just want to see the recipe description, so i think that i will need a label or something?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/34 "2021-01-05T22:13:52Z")
When the user searches for a recipe, what will they click or type in to do that?
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/35 "2021-01-06T12:06:42Z")
Ehm, they will type in an ingredient that contains the recipe. the goal is to find recipes by means of a specific ingredient (e.g. with paprika)…
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/36 "2021-01-06T18:08:47Z")
Okay, then you definitely want to get the value from the text input component and use that as your “i” value. So replace the “from Label1 get Text” block with a “from TextInput get Text” block.
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/37 "2021-01-06T18:52:19Z")
Hi, Yes i tried that indeed, but then I got this
I click on a recipe and this screen is what i see…
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/38 "2021-01-06T18:56:58Z")
Maybe this makes it more clear, my coding:
  
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/39 "2021-01-07T18:13:17Z")
If you want to share your project link with me (privately is fine), I can take a look at it.
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### Author:  [@lyketakentz62lo](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyketakentz62lo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-see-results-after-using-api-from-the-mealdb/1039761/40 "2021-01-07T18:29:28Z")
Ofcourse! Will do:)
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