# API feature request: 'get all variables'

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/api-feature-request-get-all-variables/23857>\
**Category:** Cloud\
**Created:** [June 21, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/api-feature-request-get-all-variables/23857 "2016-06-21T01:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![tedder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/tedder/32/9646_2.png) [@tedder](https://community.particle.io/u/tedder)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/api-feature-request-get-all-variables/23857/1 "2016-06-21T01:34:21Z")

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With the API, I can get a single variable (`GET v1/devices/devid/var`), but for general exploration I can’t say “give me all the variables”. I can’t imagine it would be much of a server hit to expose that. Perhaps `GET v1/devices/devid/_ALL`?