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loops Scenario 4 — Repeat API Call 5 Times

Written by RTILA X Engineering Team

Intermediate ~6 min
Prerequisites: loops/1 loops/2

What You'll Learn

Repeat an API call until success

Real-World Use Case

Polling an external service for status

LIVE DEMO

API Endpoint Simulator

This demo simulates repeated API calls. Each request returns the same deterministic status response shown below. 

{
  "status": "ok",
  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
  "checks": [
    {
      "name": "Home page",
      "status": "ok",
      "latency": 84
    },
    {
      "name": "Products API",
      "status": "ok",
      "latency": 122
    },
    {
      "name": "Database",
      "status": "degraded",
      "latency": 560
    }
  ]
}
IDEndpointMethodStatusLatency
1 /api/status GET 200 142ms
2 /api/status GET 200 138ms
3 /api/status GET 200 151ms
4 /api/status GET 200 145ms
5 /api/status GET 200 149ms
EXPECTED OUTPUT

RTILA X PROJECT JSON 

    {
  "name": "Repeat_API_Call_Five_Times",
  "settings": {
    "urls": [
      "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/loops/4"
    ],
    "headless": false,
    "navigation_timeout": 30000,
    "max_concurrent_workers": 1,
    "humanoidEnabled": true,
    "humanoidSensitivity": "medium"
  },
  "datasets": {},
  "commands": [
    {
      "command": "goto",
      "params": {
        "url": "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/loops/4"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "wait_for_selector",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.api-repeat-demo"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "repeat",
      "params": {
        "times": 5,
        "do": [
          {
            "command": "http_request",
            "params": {
              "url": "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/loops/4",
              "method": "GET"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "wait",
            "params": {
              "timeout": 10000
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "wait_for_selector",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.api-response"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "extract_data",
      "params": {
        "dataset": "api_responses"
      }
    }
  ]
}

RTILA X Concepts

The repeat command runs a block a fixed number of times. Each cycle issues an HTTP request to the endpoint and waits before the next iteration.

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This scenario covers 2 RTILA X commands and is referenced in 2 learning articles.

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