# Send more types of API requests

> <h3 id="">More API request body formatting options </h3><p id="">The "Protocol" dropdown in request body of all three API steps has been replaced with a "Format" dropdown.</p><p id="">In addition to JSON and GraphQL, Parabola now supports plain text, form-data, and x-www-form-urlencoded formatting types.</p><p id="">When using these options, if an API step does not already have a "<code id="">Content-Type"</code> header included, we will also now automatically add the right one, according to the last selection in the "Format" field.</p><p id="">This is available on all API steps - Pull from AP, Enrich with API, and Send to API</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2172px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2172px"><div id=""><img id="" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" src="/images/cms/aHR0cHM6-6643d6940c77361de1395e3a_6616e3b0a5501380d81e4215_capture-2024-04-03-173652.png" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto"></div></figure><h3 id="">Merge tag support in header values </h3><p id="">Utilize merge tags, columns referenced by name and wrapped in {curly braces}, within the value field of a custom header to merge in values for each API&nbsp;call from the input data.</p><p id="">Available in the Enrich with API and Send to API&nbsp;steps.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:620px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="620px"><div id=""><img id="" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" src="/images/cms/aHR0cHM6-6643d69406553d81c6ceaf25_6616e3b8e3b0aec184cbd171_screenshot-2024-04-03-at-5.38.26-pm.png" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto"></div></figure><p id="">‍</p>

Source: https://parabola.io/updates/send-more-types-of-api-requests

