https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Querying-in-Node-js/m-p/556021#M9920 <P>I am trying to query and manipulate results of Splunk searches using node. I am using the oneshotSearch however, as I understand it isn't a function hence, it doesn't return anything and therefore, I am unable to access the updated values my global variable that I manipulate within the function. The question then is, how do I access the variables results outside service.oneshotSearch</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="javascript">var Splunk_2 = [{"Verification Code" : '', "Verification Number" : ''}] // Run a oneshot search that returns the job's results service.oneshotSearch( searchQuery, searchParams, function query_result (err, results) { // Display the results var rawIndex = results.fields.indexOf("_raw"); // Print out each result and the key-value pairs we want for (var i = 0; i &lt; results.rows.length; i++) { Splunk_2.push({"Verification Code": JSON.parse(results.rows[i][rawIndex]).data.message_body, "Verification Number": JSON.parse(results.rows[i][rawIndex]).data.phone }); } } );</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:59:54 GMT hassaanalich296 2021-06-16T16:59:54Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Querying-in-Node-js/m-p/556021#M9920 <P>I am trying to query and manipulate results of Splunk searches using node. I am using the oneshotSearch however, as I understand it isn't a function hence, it doesn't return anything and therefore, I am unable to access the updated values my global variable that I manipulate within the function. The question then is, how do I access the variables results outside service.oneshotSearch</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="javascript">var Splunk_2 = [{"Verification Code" : '', "Verification Number" : ''}] // Run a oneshot search that returns the job's results service.oneshotSearch( searchQuery, searchParams, function query_result (err, results) { // Display the results var rawIndex = results.fields.indexOf("_raw"); // Print out each result and the key-value pairs we want for (var i = 0; i &lt; results.rows.length; i++) { Splunk_2.push({"Verification Code": JSON.parse(results.rows[i][rawIndex]).data.message_body, "Verification Number": JSON.parse(results.rows[i][rawIndex]).data.phone }); } } );</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:59:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Querying-in-Node-js/m-p/556021#M9920 hassaanalich296 2021-06-16T16:59:54Z