# Metadata Refresh API

**URL:** https://community.dremio.com/t/metadata-refresh-api/8828
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 4, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/metadata-refresh-api/8828 "2022-03-04T21:31:01Z")
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### Author: ![drew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@drew](https://community.dremio.com/u/drew)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/metadata-refresh-api/8828/1 "2022-03-04T21:31:01Z")

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Hello,

Is there a way to refresh a PDS, VDS and table metadata from the API? I didn’t seem an API for this in the docs. I know how to do it via SQL, but would like to do it through the API.

Thanks,  
Drew

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### Author: ![drew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@drew](https://community.dremio.com/u/drew)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/metadata-refresh-api/8828/2 "2022-03-04T22:26:23Z")

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That is right @drew, you need to use the POST SQL API, also refresh metadata is only for the PDS as VDS’s are just views on top of the PDS

Sorry to have missed your post