# Refresh Individual Elements Instead of entire page when using API **URL:** \ **Category:** APIs\ **Created:** [September 30, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/refresh-individual-elements-instead-of-entire-page-when-using-api/113928 "2020-09-30T06:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![shawnmi6](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/shawnmi6/32/96625_2.png) [@shawnmi6](https://forum.bubble.io/u/shawnmi6)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/refresh-individual-elements-instead-of-entire-page-when-using-api/113928/14 "2020-09-30T13:51:24Z")
The issue you were experiencing was the same in this old post below, when using api call as a data source insted of a action, you need to have some data variable which changes in order for bubble to make the api call again. You didn’t have any dynamic data variable which was changing which caused the api call to run only once. This can by fixed by adding a a non used header to the api call as mentioned in the post below. > [@Refresh RG displaying GET API Call after successful POST API Call to same data source](http://forum.bubble.io/t/refresh-rg-displaying-get-api-call-after-successful-post-api-call-to-same-data-source/91618/11): > > Dave, changed to current date/time and it worked and super smooth too. [image] Cheers Frank --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.bubble.io/t/refresh-individual-elements-instead-of-entire-page-when-using-api/113928)._