# Http poller output
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-output/211166
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 9, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-output/211166 "2019-12-09T17:24:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@raged](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raged)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-output/211166/1 "2019-12-09T17:24:17Z")
I have an API that returns several objects. Currently the output is getting each item and sending it individually.
Is there a way to send the entire JSON from the initial http poller?
I am trying to utilize the http poller to fetch data from a rest call, then in logstash I am referencing it by using a elasticsearch filter (seems janky the way I am doing this...) would an http filter better suite this? Only reason I didn't go down that route yet is because I don't know if the http filter attempts to call the rest api on each event, or if it's cached for a certain period of time.
Thanks,
Raged.
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### Author:  [@raged](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raged)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-output/211166/2 "2019-12-10T13:34:34Z")
I was able to modify the API call to get the data returned as an object by appending:
`_return_as_object=1`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-output/211166/3 "2020-01-07T13:34:49Z")
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