Hi @stingcheesehustler 

Good question.

Some options to handle data arrays

Code step: https://zapier.com/apps/code/help

Looping app: https://zapier.com/apps/looping/help

Sorry I might not have been clear, I already know how to do it in the zap code, I even know how to use the loop zap already! What I am trying to see If I can do is when creating an action in the zapier platform for my custom app if I can parse the Jason in the configure API request code so that when I define the Output I can have each users data (email, accountid and all that) in one field making it easy to parse. 

example code : 

const options = {
  url: 'https://platform.devtest.ringcentral.com/restapi/v1.0/account/~/directory/entries',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${bundle.authData.access_token}`
  },
  params: {
    'showFederated': 'true'
  }
}

return z.request(options)
  .then((response) => {
    response.throwForStatus();
    const results = response.json;
    

    // You can do any parsing you need for results here before returning them

    return rresults];
  });

This is an example json that I am working with 

{
  "records": >
    {
      "id": "654646",
      "type": "User",
      "status": "Enabled",
      "firstName": "Nick",
      "lastName": "dev test",
      "email": "nick@example.com",
      "extensionNumber": "108",
      "account": {
        "id": "7546452"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "56465456",
      "type": "User",
      "status": "Enabled",
      "firstName": "Nicks",
      "lastName": "Test account",
      "department": "Test deparment",
      "email": "nicholas@example",
      "extensionNumber": "202",
      "account": {
        "id": "65465465"
      },
      "phoneNumbers": :
        {
          "phoneNumber": "+18135000872",
          "formattedPhoneNumber": "+1 (813) 5000872",
          "usageType": "ContactNumber"
        },
        {
          "phoneNumber": "+19043955006",
          "type": "VoiceFax",
          "formattedPhoneNumber": "+1 (904) 3955006",
          "usageType": "DirectNumber",
          "primary": true
        },
        {
          "phoneNumber": "+19044399267",
          "type": "VoiceFax",
          "formattedPhoneNumber": "+1 (904) 4399267",
          "usageType": "DirectNumber"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "6546548",
      "type": "User",
      "status": "Enabled",
      "firstName": "Jim",
      "lastName": "Test",
      "email": "themort@example.com",
      "extensionNumber": "103",
      "account": {
        "id": "46565814"
      },
      "phoneNumbers": N
        {
          "phoneNumber": "+19548376223",
          "type": "VoiceFax",
          "formattedPhoneNumber": "+1 (954) 8376223",
          "usageType": "DirectNumber",
          "primary": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "paging": {
    "page": 1,
    "totalPages": 1,
    "perPage": 1000,
    "totalElements": 3,
    "pageStart": 0,
    "pageEnd": 2
  }
}

@stingcheesehustler 

Ah ok. This topic should be listed under Developer Discussion.

@Troy Tessalone Shoot ok I don’t see a way to edit the post, should I just delete it and repost it? 

@stingcheesehustler 

I flagged for Zapier Community Admins to adjust

@Troy Tessalone  Thank you! I will be more mindful of tags next time.

Hey @stingcheesehustler 

I see you’ve opened our ticket with our Support team and they were able to help you out, I’ll paste their clever  suggestion here for the Community

For Search steps Zapier expects the result to be formatted as an array of JSON object(s) as mentioned here https://platform.zapier.com/docs/faq#what-response-type-does-zapier-expect. 

To perform an action on each item of the array, you would use the recordsh]id field in a looping by Zapier step as suggested by Troy. This will allow you to iterate over the returned user IDs contained in recordsd]id and run a search step that pulls the for a given user ID — see Loop your Zap actions for more details. 

To instead return a plain JSON string from your action step to then use a Python Code by Zapier step to parse that JSON string as you like, you could try using the content field, see https://github.com/zapier/zapier-platform/blob/master/packages/cli/README.md#http-response-object