# Call a SOAP web service

Acquire / http

A variant of [Fetch from the web](https://meridian.online/operations/fetch-from-the-web).

Call a method of a SOAP or XML-RPC web service, usually described by WSDL, and return its result.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/fetch-from-the-web/call-a-soap-web-service>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#fetch-from-the-web)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Duckle: [`SOAP`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- Apache Hop: [`Web services lookup`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/webservices.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`KNIME Web Service Client (extension)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/extensions/org.knime.features.ext.webservice.client) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Web services lookup`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tESBConsumer`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/esb-soap/esb-soap-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tSOAP`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/soap/soap-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tWebService`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/webservice/webservice-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tWebServiceInput`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/webservice/webservice-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tXMLRPCInput`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/xmlrpc/xmlrpc-component) (read 2026-09-27)