# Fetch data by making a GET request to a server

**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/fetch-data-by-making-a-get-request-to-a-server/10432
**Category:** Tech
**Created:** [July 9, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/fetch-data-by-making-a-get-request-to-a-server/10432 "2022-07-09T14:57:35Z")
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### Author: ![zzq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/zzq/32/6471_2.png) [@zzq](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zzq)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/fetch-data-by-making-a-get-request-to-a-server/10432/3 "2022-07-09T15:57:31Z")

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A discussion from a few years back on this topic which you might find interesting:

> [@Feature request: autodata from an API](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-autodata-from-an-api/5761):
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> There is an IFTTT autodata integration, which I could probably use to get the equivalent of what I’m asking for. But there is no intrinsic reason this should have to go through IFTTT. I have a personal webserver, on which I can expose an API endpoint which returns a number. I’d like a way to have Beeminder set up to use that as an autodata source, much like, say, the IFTTT autodata source. For now, I’m using the Beeminder API to send data to Beeminder, in a cron job. But there some goals where…

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