# Help with Glide Call API and Apify (400 error) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [December 13, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567 "2024-12-13T02:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/1 "2024-12-13T02:41:32Z")
I am using this [Apify actor](https://console.apify.com/actors/aYG0l9s7dbB7j3gbS/input). I can test an api all successfully in postman. I pasted the endpoint and body from Glide into postman. ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 13.39.10](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/1/216fcac27d9acf9e4a1ca2be5a35a05ade915f53.png) ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 13.40.50](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/b/db237492ab7ac647f3efd1e2f1c8dc9d049f7bc7.png) Desperate to solve ☹ Trying to figure out why I get a 400 error from Glide but exact same data works via postman. ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/2 "2024-12-13T02:49:11Z")
Update: If I paste the endpoint and body into the Call API configure action form, then it works! but using the same values from a table column doesn’t work. Ahhhhh! I need the body to be dynamic. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/3 "2024-12-13T03:01:03Z")
My guess would be that your dynamic JSON may not be valid. You can check this by copy/pasting the generated JSON into an online validator such as [https://jsonlint.com/](https://jsonlint.com/) It looks like you are using a Template column to generate the JSON. Best practise is to use the JSON Object and/or JSON Template columns to generate it. This ensures you will always get valid JSON. ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/4 "2024-12-13T03:06:01Z")
wow, amazing, will try now. this is hurting me 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/5 "2024-12-13T03:08:37Z")
how do I create this where the url is dynamic using json object? { “startUrls”:[{“url”:“[https://www.juremont.com.au/](https://www.juremont.com.au/)”}], “maxCrawlingDepth”:5 } or do I need a template? ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/6 "2024-12-13T03:20:08Z")
looks like I need a template, however I can’t get the substitute values working now. Help? ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 14.20.02](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/7/c/7cb066c5c067f9a10215302ca9d126a83e9c657d.png) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/7 "2024-12-13T03:26:17Z")
Bare strings should be quoted when using as replacements. eg. `"https://example.com"` But should you be using a column value there? ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/8 "2024-12-13T03:29:24Z")
I tried both. So what do change? “$link” won’t that turn into “whatever link I enter or a column value that is also a link”? Oh! I removed the “” in my value and it worked so “url”: $link. Amazing!!! ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/9 "2024-12-13T03:31:31Z")
and it still fails with a 400 error. sigh ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/10 "2024-12-13T03:38:41Z")
For context, this works: ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 14.35.00](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/0/d0c45c7b06f81c064835fa114313e3e8c9878b65.png) This fails (using this column value as the json) ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 14.35.21](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/e/1ee6a943ccf0722a747a9712705d35b6240fb844.png) this is the output I see in Glide (assuming this is exactly what is substituted into the call using a column value: ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 14.37.00](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/7/d/7dbc58c88974373a6b7de8c11b9c0803b1093a0b.png) However, copying from the data editor and pasting into the jsonlint tool gives me: ![Screenshot 2024-12-13 at 14.38.09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/optimized/3X/f/8/f8244d177bd2e3283bf797bcbba2117bbe972797_2_690x76.png) Where are the “” coming from?? Is Glide adding “” for no reason when coming from a column value and this is the problem? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/11 "2024-12-13T03:49:11Z")
> [@blairrorani](#): > > Where are the “” coming from?? Is Glide adding “” for no reason when coming from a column value and this is the problem? That sometimes happens when you copy/paste. I think it’s a Glide bug. Try it 2 or 3 times until the extra quotes disappear. Note that it won’t impact what is actually generated. Could it be the trailing forward slash on the URL that is causing the problem? ---
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/12 "2024-12-13T03:52:53Z")
k sounds like no big deal then, phew. It doesn’t work with or without it, oh man. Wait no! I removed it and it worked. Oh my goodness, thanks so much @Darren_Murphy I have tried so many permutations that I hadn’t tried everything else plus no trailing /. Legend ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-glide-call-api-and-apify-400-error/78567/14 "2024-12-20T04:05:17Z")
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