# Any way to limit response fields?

**URL:** https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/any-way-to-limit-response-fields/4129
**Category:** openrouteservice
**Created:** [August 19, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/any-way-to-limit-response-fields/4129 "2022-08-19T14:28:42Z")
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### Author: ![atruvio](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/atruvio/32/1817_2.png) [@atruvio](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/atruvio)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/any-way-to-limit-response-fields/4129/1 "2022-08-19T14:28:42Z")

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Hello,

I’m playing around with local instance, and calling the `/ors/v2/directions/driving-car`.

- Is thre any way to reduce the fields returned by the response?

I’ve got all the keys such as `metadata`, `features`, `geometry`, while I don’t have any use of it. My goal would be to tell the `API` which fileds I want returned.

Trying to optimize the call time / data fetched.

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### Author: ![amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/amandus/32/669_2.png) [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/any-way-to-limit-response-fields/4129/2 "2022-08-22T08:40:14Z")

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Hi @atruvio,

no, this is currently not possible.  
You can set `instructions` and/or `geometry` to false though.  
The default json endpoint gives the most compact response as it returns an encoded polyline.

Best regards