---
title: requests.get() function
description: >
  `requests.get()` makes a http GET request. This identical to calling `request.do(method: "GET", ...)`.
menu:
  flux_v0_ref:
    name: requests.get
    parent: http/requests
    identifier: http/requests/get
weight: 201
flux/v0/tags: [http, inputs]
---

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`requests.get()` makes a http GET request. This identical to calling `request.do(method: "GET", ...)`.



##### Function type signature

```js
(
    url: string,
    ?body: bytes,
    ?config: {A with timeout: duration, insecureSkipVerify: bool},
    ?headers: [string:string],
    ?params: [string:[string]],
) => {statusCode: int, headers: [string:string], duration: duration, body: bytes}
```

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## Parameters

### url
({{< req >}})
URL to request. This should not include any query parameters.



### params

Set of key value pairs to add to the URL as query parameters.
Query parameters will be URL encoded.
All values for a key will be appended to the query.



### headers

Set of key values pairs to include on the request.



### body

Data to send with the request.



### config

Set of options to control how the request should be performed.




## Examples

- [Make a GET request](#make-a-get-request)
- [Make a GET request and decode the JSON response](#make-a-get-request-and-decode-the-json-response)

### Make a GET request

```js
import "http/requests"

response = requests.get(url: "http://example.com")

requests.peek(response: response)

```


### Make a GET request and decode the JSON response

```js
import "http/requests"
import "experimental/json"
import "array"

response = requests.get(url: "https://api.agify.io", params: ["name": ["nathaniel"]])

// api.agify.io returns JSON with the form
//
// {
//    name: string,
//    age: number,
//    count: number,
// }
//
// Define a data variable that parses the JSON response body into a Flux record.
data = json.parse(data: response.body)

// Use array.from() to construct a table with one row containing our response data.
// We do not care about the count so only include name and age.
array.from(rows: [{name: data.name, age: data.age}])

```

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#### Output data

| name      | age  |
| --------- | ---- |
| nathaniel | 61   |

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