# Streaming from APIs

For streaming data from APIs, you need to read data in your pipeline with the "[API call](https://docs.ylem.co/pipelines/tasks-ip/api-call)" task:

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When the pipeline is triggered, this task will make an API request to the API Endpoint, you have configured in your [API integration](https://docs.ylem.co/integrations/library-of-integrations/apis) and use the response data for the entire pipeline.

&#x20;Some examples of the streaming pipelines from the API:

## Streaming from API to a database

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## Streaming from API to API

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Of course, the pipelines above are just examples and your real pipelines will most probably be more complicated and will contain more transformation and processing of data:

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