diff --git a/packages/nodes-base/nodes/HttpRequest.node.ts b/packages/nodes-base/nodes/HttpRequest.node.ts
index ac51b636d2..0d9ac472c0 100644
--- a/packages/nodes-base/nodes/HttpRequest.node.ts
+++ b/packages/nodes-base/nodes/HttpRequest.node.ts
@@ -347,6 +347,20 @@ export class HttpRequest implements INodeType {
 						placeholder: 'http://myproxy:3128',
 						description: 'HTTP proxy to use.',
 					},
+					{
+						displayName: 'Split Into Items',
+						name: 'splitIntoItems',
+						type: 'boolean',
+						default: false,
+						description: 'Outputs each element of an array as own item.',
+						displayOptions: {
+							show: {
+								'/responseFormat': [
+									'json',
+								],
+							},
+						},
+					},
 					{
 						displayName: 'Timeout',
 						name: 'timeout',
@@ -1005,7 +1019,11 @@ export class HttpRequest implements INodeType {
 						}
 					}
 
-					returnItems.push({ json: response });
+					if (options.splitIntoItems === true && Array.isArray(response)) {
+						response.forEach(item => returnItems.push({ json: item }));
+					} else {
+						returnItems.push({ json: response });
+					}
 				}
 			}
 		}