# Can't force new api call

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/cant-force-new-api-call/317321>\
**Category:** APIs\
**Created:** [April 11, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/cant-force-new-api-call/317321 "2024-04-11T23:27:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@paul29](https://forum.bubble.io/u/paul29)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/cant-force-new-api-call/317321/1 "2024-04-11T23:27:04Z")

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Does anyone know if this is expected behaviour or if its a bubble bug?  
In my screenshot below you can see that I am trying to display a list in a repeatinggroup. The api call is of type “data” so I am setting the data source of my “display list in rg” action as this api of type data. I inspected the network traffic and found that no api call is being made which means I can’t refresh the data in my RG.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/d/6/d67cd2a9579b5242b25722a6cbd4cc3359ce3318.png)

It seems like the api call is getting cached. Since the api call doesn’t take any parameters (it is just a get request in it’s simplest form) maybe bubble is trying to be efficient and not make the call again?

I know I could switch this to an api call of type “action” but then that affects things in other places and I really want to keep this as type “data”.

If it’s a bug, I’ll submit to bubble but just hoping to save myself the time if someone knows that they will say “this is expected behaviour”.

Thanks in advance.  
Paul

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**Author:** ![Jici](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/jici/32/30722_2.png) [@Jici](https://forum.bubble.io/u/Jici)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/cant-force-new-api-call/317321/2 "2024-04-11T23:50:18Z")

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Expected behavior and you can find a lot of topics and solutions about that on the forum. Add an header, give it the keyname you want and dynamically use a random string or datetimestamp with sec to force Bubble to fetch new data.

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**Author:** ![paul29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@paul29](https://forum.bubble.io/u/paul29)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/cant-force-new-api-call/317321/3 "2024-04-12T00:01:31Z")

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Not sure why I assumed this would be a topic with little to no forum posts on it. Clearly I was wrong.

Thanks for the quick response and solution. Much appreciated