# Glide api seems very slow

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234 "2025-02-21T20:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234/1 "2025-02-21T20:05:18Z")

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I make use of Glides API.  
Adding a new row via the Call API seems very slow

I call the API from within the app by a user initiated workflow

The body is like below - so I just add one row in another table - and it takes approx 2 seconds

Is this the expected behavior - 1-2 seconds for such an api-call?  
Postman takes from 0.95s - 1.45 seconds

Anyway to make the call speed up?

```auto
"appID": "XjbSNoLzL5GSbUbX8QZB",
  "mutations": [
    {
      "kind": "add-row-to-table",
      "tableName": "native-table-CuC4wUc5jhdwy1fxFPl3",
      "columnValues": {
        "jqu8r": "myemail@email.com",
        "xeXKq": "101",
        "oS4iy": "FineThings",
        "7B4Iy": "1234560000",
        "xZHfv": true,
        "1Uu2Y": "true"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234/2 "2025-02-22T00:59:11Z")

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Is there any reason you don’t use add row action?

From my experience, I wouldn’t call 1-2 seconds very slow, but if you add a huge amount of rows it would stack up a bit.

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**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234/3 "2025-02-22T09:09:08Z")

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@ThinhDinh I have to write 2,5, 20 rows into 5 different tables. Therefore I haven’t considered doing just add row action as the number of rows differ.

My data comes from a json file and I want to populate the 5 different tables (like baseinformation, products, contacts etc). I thought about just getting the data into the tables by query json columns but I need to be able to change the data afterward say that I have product.color=red and I want in the user interface to be able to change it to blue. Then I will need an extra column for the user-inputted value - and the user-inputted value should to a start be red.

This is why I ended up using call API to get the data to the 5 different table. I wonder if there would be another way - and there I could avoid 5 api calls - maybe taking 6-10 seconds in total

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234/4 "2025-02-23T00:36:01Z")

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> [@Krivo](#):
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> I have to write 2,5, 20 rows into 5 different tables. Therefore I haven’t considered doing just add row action as the number of rows differ.

If you have access to the webhook workflow, I would suggest using:

- A webhook workflow.
- An action to send a JSON to that webhook workflow.
- Use query JSON and loops to add them to the right table.

> [@Krivo](#):
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> I have product.color=red and I want in the user interface to be able to change it to blue. Then I will need an extra column for the user-inputted value - and the user-inputted value should to a start be red.

For this, just add the color to the body to send to webhook workflow, use query JSON to query it out, and use it as needed afterwards.

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**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-api-seems-very-slow/80234/5 "2025-02-23T22:58:06Z")

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@ThinhDinh Thanks for suggestions. At present, I don’t have access to webhooks - but could consider it in the future if it could perform a lot better than call API. It is unclear to me if webhooks are superior to call api when I need to add rows to 5 different tables. Is there any indications of that? Any good video resources to get a feeling of how webhooks work in Glide?