# Getting Associations in Batch APIs **URL:** \ **Category:** APIs & Integrations\ **Created:** [March 8, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704 "2022-03-08T06:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SR36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@SR36](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SR36)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/1 "2022-03-08T06:30:30Z")
Is there a way to retrieve associations in a Batch Read. For example, when retrieving a single contact, I can request for associations via the GET API as follows curl --request GET --url [[https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/251/\\](https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/251/%5C%5C)]([https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/251/\](https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/251/%5C))?associations\=notes --header ‘authorization: Bearer \’ | json\_pp % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current ``` Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed ``` 100 432 0 432 0 0 352 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 357 { “archived” : false, “associations” : { ``` "notes" : { "results" : \[ { "id" : "19668463257", "type" : "contact\_to\_note" }, { "id" : "19793682071", "type" : "contact\_to\_note" } ] } ``` }, “createdAt” : “2022-03-03T09:23:21.321Z”, “id” : “251”, “properties” : { ``` "createdate" : "2022-03-03T09:23:21.321Z", "email" : "bcooper@biglytics.net", "firstname" : "Bryan", "hs\_object\_id" : "251", "lastmodifieddate" : "2022-03-04T03:08:28.978Z", "lastname" : "Cooper" ``` }, “updatedAt” : “2022-03-04T03:08:28.978Z” } But when trying to use batch operations is there a way to retrieve associations in the response. I tried the following but did not work. From API there seems to be no way to achieve this. Is there any other way to do this? curl --request POST \ --url [https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/batch/read](https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/batch/read) \ --header ‘authorization: Bearer \’ \ --header ‘content-type: application/json’ \ --data '{ “inputs”: [ ``` { "id": "251" } ``` ], “associations”: [ ``` "notes" ``` ] }’ | json\_pp % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current ``` Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed ``` 100 501 0 415 100 86 335 69 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 408 { “completedAt” : “2022-03-08T06:27:11.024Z”, “results” : [ ``` { "archived" : false, "createdAt" : "2022-03-03T09:23:21.321Z", "id" : "251", "properties" : { "createdate" : "2022-03-03T09:23:21.321Z", "email" : "bcooper@biglytics.net", "firstname" : "Bryan", "hs\_object\_id" : "251", "lastmodifieddate" : "2022-03-04T03:08:28.978Z", "lastname" : "Cooper" }, "updatedAt" : "2022-03-04T03:08:28.978Z" } ``` ], “startedAt” : “2022-03-08T06:27:10.999Z”, “status” : “COMPLETE” } ---
**Author:** ![dennisedson](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/dennisedson/32/28044_2.png) [@dennisedson](https://community.hubspot.com/u/dennisedson)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/2 "2022-03-09T16:27:17Z")
@SR36 Have you explored the [CRM search api](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/search)? You can return associations with that ---
**Author:** ![SR36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@SR36](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SR36)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/3 "2022-05-25T08:48:08Z")
Thanks. I ended up using the search API, but this was sub optimal as I already had the list of contacts with ids ---
**Author:** ![sfroment](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@sfroment](https://community.hubspot.com/u/sfroment)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/4 "2022-08-25T08:09:07Z")
Hey, @SR36 @dennisedson How did you return the associations using the search api ? It seems like many aren’t knowing how to do this also [https://community.hubspot.com/t5/APIs-Integrations/Get-associations-with-deals-from-crm-objects-deals-search/m-p/321104](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/APIs-Integrations/Get-associations-with-deals-from-crm-objects-deals-search/m-p/321104) Thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![SR36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@SR36](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SR36)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/5 "2022-10-06T12:21:00Z")
Hi @sfroment , I dont think we can get associations via the search API. As a result I had to do this in a sub optimal convoluted way 😞 1) Execute a search query 2) For all returned records, call the batch association API to get the list of associations 3) The returned association is in turn sparse, it does not have the name of the contact, company or deal. So make further batch requests to get these information This is definitely not ideal. I’m not sure why assocaitions is not exposed in search while its exposed in list API ---
**Author:** ![sfroment](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@sfroment](https://community.hubspot.com/u/sfroment)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/6 "2022-10-06T12:25:24Z")
Yes indeed it is the solution I also implemented 😞 ---
**Author:** ![elephantal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@elephantal](https://community.hubspot.com/u/elephantal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/7 "2024-11-21T16:31:08Z")
How did you get batch associations from the API? I can’t seem to find that functionality. Can only fetch associations one at a time. ---
**Author:** ![CMarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@CMarl](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CMarl)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-associations-in-batch-apis/52704/8 "2022-10-19T16:00:31Z")
@dennisedson it appears we _cannot_ get associations through the search api either. please advise..