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Building a frame in Frog, I would like to take user input in a frame, use that in an API call, and pass that response to another page in the frame.

What's the proper way to accomplish this?

I see things in docs for onchain actions like `app.transaction` but nothing for arbitrary API calls.

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@horsefacts.eth @stephancill @fiveoutofnine.eth know of any docs or opensource frames that might be helpful here?

Have a good idea of how to go about it, but stuck on implementation.

If you mean you want to take user input do req, return a frame, and have the api response data available when the user next presses a button, then depending on data length you could store it in
1. the button target url params (<200b)
2. frame state (up to 4kb)
3. kv store like vercel/kv or cloudflare kv (arbitrary)

I haven’t used frog for a project but heres some frames.js implementations for 1 and 3

1. https://github.com/stephancill/manage-ens-frame/blob/master/src/app/frames/check-names/route.tsx#L93

3. https://github.com/stephancill/frameswap/blob/master/app/frames/buy/route.tsx#L133 (async call, loading screen)

That answers my other question about UX, going with loading screen. Really appreciate it, I'll check these out!