# Does anything get added to a flow variable that I can't see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [June 26, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/does-anything-get-added-to-a-flow-variable-that-i-cant-see/83254 "2023-06-26T14:18:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icepick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/icepick/32/56463_2.png) [@Icepick](https://community.homey.app/u/Icepick)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/does-anything-get-added-to-a-flow-variable-that-i-cant-see/83254/1 "2023-06-26T14:18:53Z")
My flow is quite basic… it gets a tekststring from an URL and it posts it to another api. Let’s say the text I get from the URL is: Today the sun will shine When it passes this answer on to the API (with the newsheadline) I get a server error. However if I copy paste the reply from the URL and hardcode it in the API post it works. I get the feeling something is added here that I can’t see. I also wrote the answer from the url call to a variable… but it just shows ’ Today the sun will shine’ and nothing else. So why does it not work when passing the answer along? Off topic… why can i never add images to my posts? It always gets stuck at 100% when uploading. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/does-anything-get-added-to-a-flow-variable-that-i-cant-see/83254/2 "2023-06-26T14:35:07Z")
> [@Icepick](#): > > Off topic… why can i never add images to my posts? It always gets stuck at 100% when uploading. Try a different browser. Try emptying cache and reload forum. But, you can share links to your flows (instead of screenshots) Web app: right click on a flow name, or click the `[...]` next to the name Mobile app: v6.x When you edit a flow, hit the square @ top right next to the cog wheel v7.x Longpress on a flowname ![Screenshot from 2023-06-26 16-33-59](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/0/2/02a58c248d603cbdb7d97d88a1f875e98f58b172.png) > [@Icepick](#): > > I get the feeling something is added here that I can’t see. Add log cards / notification cards to your flows. When you include the tag(s) used, you’ll have a better sight on what happens. Standard flows have a bug: it adds a trailing whitespace to variable values in flow cards (reported it “100” years ago, but seems unfixable). Try saving the flow in the web app once, this should fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Icepick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/icepick/32/56463_2.png) [@Icepick](https://community.homey.app/u/Icepick)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/does-anything-get-added-to-a-flow-variable-that-i-cant-see/83254/3 "2023-06-27T03:44:21Z")
Hi Peter, Yeah I tried the notification card route but somehow even in the notification it doesn’t show any whitespace or odd characters… even when i put quotes around it to see if there are any spaces; “Today the sun will shine” However when I pass this reply (without quotes) to the API I get the internal server error. If I replace the green reply with the text (copy paste) it works. ![flow](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/0/a012588f310f05b8a169c3c05df19e4cb0697c54.jpeg) Got the image uploading to work in a different browser! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/does-anything-get-added-to-a-flow-variable-that-i-cant-see/83254/4 "2023-06-27T14:13:41Z")
Idk, but I get a 404 when running the GET card, so your POST request card will of course error with this [response] (Antwoord) How did you test it? > ![Screenshot from 2023-06-27 16-21-54](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/9/4/948c9e28eadbb12da381a2f3acf9a37e7323c027.png) ---
**Author:** ![Icepick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/icepick/32/56463_2.png) [@Icepick](https://community.homey.app/u/Icepick)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/does-anything-get-added-to-a-flow-variable-that-i-cant-see/83254/5 "2023-06-28T03:24:38Z")
Yes, the urls and apikeys in this example are replaced for security reasons. The actual url does return data and the weird thing is… when I add a telegram message to it, it arrives fine on telegram. It just doesn’t seem to work with the API I am sending it to. I tried removing the quotes in the API call, but it doesn’t make any difference. If I replace #antwoord with a copy and pasted text from the telegram message I get from the same flow it works fine. The only thing I can think of is that #antwoord does contain some kind of character that upsets the Vestaboard API and gets filtered out by Telegram.