# Fetching data and filtering best practices

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/fetching-data-and-filtering-best-practices/1001>\
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**Created:** [August 14, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/fetching-data-and-filtering-best-practices/1001 "2022-08-14T09:29:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/fetching-data-and-filtering-best-practices/1001/14 "2023-01-18T15:59:22Z")

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Hi @aurelie . How does this depend? You mean adding a filter at the collection level may NOT actually request a filtered response from the data source?

I’m particularly concerned with Airtable.

If I add a filter within the collection configuration, is the intended behavior that the response will only include the filtered results?

Thanks

EDIT: to elaborate a bit further on what specifically I’m seeking to confirm…

I have a users table in airtable that contains a field for auth0 ID, which is what I want to filter by. Based on the editor UI in weweb, it seems apparent that if I want to make a call to my airtable table and retrieve a record for only my authenticated user, I would simply need to add a filter at the user collection level that filters like “where auth0ID = \<auth0 ID from auth0 plugin\*”.

In the editor, adding that filter results in that collection only returned 1 record, as expected.

Is this how it is intended to behave in a published app too? That only that 1 record that meets the filter conditions would be returned?

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