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Adding batch processing to an API endpoint recipe

juliaju — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:46:10 GMT

Seeing that workato supports batch processing in recipes, is there a way to handle batch processing with an API request trigger that has multiple objects in its JSON request?

From the docs, it seems like I'd have to transform the JSON request into an integration (like a list) before I'd be able to apply batch processing actions on it.

Thanks!

Re: Adding batch processing to an API endpoint recipe

gary1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:46:26 GMT

If you're talking about aggregating multiple API requests into a single job, I don't think this is possible. Not natively at least.

Offhand, I think you would need to store the API requests in a data table or similar, and then create a recipe that periodically polls the data table and processes available requests. IMO, this would be silly to do.

The API will pass any payload to a recipe, and that recipe can do whatever you want it to do. So pass an array of objects to your API, and process them in the recipe. (IMO, this is the better approach.)

Re: Adding batch processing to an API endpoint recipe

Bhagya_pola — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:48:27 GMT

Hello @juliaju ,
Could you please share a sample payload from the trigger? That would help clarify things.