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title: Select data from a complex JSON response
topictype: tutorial
updated: 2025-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
slug: docs/postman-flows/cookbook/select-data-from-complex-json
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Selecting and processing data from responses is a fundamental function in Postman Flows. Understanding how to pull data from specific fields in a response is vital to designing effective flows. For example, you might want to extract an address field from several levels down in a complex JSON object from an API response.

## Recipe

The following recipe shows how to extract a specific field from a complex JSON response:

1. Create a flow and add an **HTTP Request** block with a GET request to the following URL:

   ```html
   https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json
   ```

   This will return a large, multi-leveled JSON object describing details about Apple Inc.

2. Connect a **Select** block to the **HTTP Request** block's **Success** port.

3. Run the flow and click **Enter path...** in the **Select** block. A dropdown list appears showing the top-level fields in the JSON object from the response.

4. In the dropdown list, click the arrow next to **body** to view its nested fields.

5. Scroll down the **body** object and click the arrow next to the **addresses** field. More nested fields appear.

6. Click the arrow next to **mailing** to view its nested fields and select **street1**. The dropdown list closes and the following path appears in the **Select** block:

   ```html
   body.addresses.mailing.street1
   ```

7. Run the flow and click the **Select** block's **Output** tab view the **street1** field's value.

Pulling specific data from a complex JSON response lets you isolate that data so you can use it in the flow's logic.

## Try it out

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  To see this recipe's completed flow, check out [Cookbook: Select data from a complex JSON response](https://www.postman.com/postman/flows-snippets/flow/68befbc7b781700013ccfeb5/). You can also [clone this flow](/docs/postman-flows/build-flows/create/clone-flows/) to your workspace to experiment with it.
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