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I've got a frontend form which queries the openstates.org API to return a given set of data objects.

Those objects also exist in Craft as entries, and the API data includes a field that serves as a unique ID for the Craft entries - how can I pass those unique IDs back to the Craft template to retrieve the corresponding entries?

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    You could add them as query string to the URL. When rendering the page, you can tan check the query strign to see which ones you'd have to display...
    – mrsmn
    Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 5:57
  • Thanks, Michael - that worked perfectly. I wound up combining it with the sample code from this answer.
    – mierla
    Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 15:23
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    Perhaps add your working combination as answer? That way people in the future can directly see the answer.
    – mrsmn
    Commented Aug 1, 2017 at 13:24

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Per Michael's suggestion above, with some help from this answer, I passed the results from the API call back to a craft template as query params, so it looked like this (simplified): 

{% if craft.request.isAjax %}
    {% set myReps = craft.request.getParam('personId') %}
    {% set myIds = myReps | split(',') %}
    {% for myId in myIds %}
        {% set person = craft.entries.section('representatives').repId(myId).first() %}
    {% endfor %}
{% endif %}

and then output my info from there.

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