How to make a GET request with a Body Param

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Hi,

I’m connecting to an API, and they used params in the body for GET requests (I don’t think it’s a good idea… and I’m asking to make an evolution to accept query params).

I didn’t find anything in the HTTP Request node, only options for query params.

I tried the “JSON/RAW parameters” to see if it was translated in the body, but no.

Is there a way to do this ?

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Welcome!
Could you please link the API docs for this? Maybe we can find a workaround this way.

You are right, this does seem odd!

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This is a private API, I can’t share anything on this…

What I can tell you is that the endpoint signature expect a body containing the “query” params, in a json format.

If you transform your json in a string like { "myParam" : "hello", "myOtherParam" : "world" } in ?myParam=hello&myOtherParam=world, that won’t work.

But if you use in a body (with curl, got or tools like Insomnia), it’s working.

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Very sorry @mdartic but that is sadly not possible with n8n. GET requests do normally not have bodies for that reason is that sadly also not supported by n8n.

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You’re perfectly right, and you don’t have to be sorry :wink:

I was just asking, in case of.

I’m gonna ask the API’s developers to normalize their endpoint.

Thanks for your support !

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