Download using API and compress the results

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Is it possible to download using API and get the json results in a compressed file?

Thanks,
Raffy

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@raffy_m, maybe this post discussed previously should help you solve your issue:

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Hi @Kal_Lam ,

The quoted response does not answer my question which is how to get the results, when downloading using API. JSON which is compressed and not plain text. Thanks

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Hi @raffy_m, you can look at the headers sent by the browser as it requests a compressed file and then deflates it. Here I’ve just copied the header 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br':

TOKEN=your-secret-token
KF_URL=your-kf-url
ASSET_UID=your-asset-uid

curl -H "Authorization: Token $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' \
  -o data.gz \
  "https://${KF_URL}/api/v2/assets/${ASSET_UID}/data.json"

ls -lah data.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 josh  staff   644B Jun 16 10:33 data.gz

Deflate the file:

gzip -dk data.gz

See the size difference of the deflated JSON data:

ls -lah data*                                                                                                             
-rw-r--r--  1 josh  staff   2.1K Jun 16 10:39 data
-rw-r--r--  1 josh  staff   644B Jun 16 10:39 data.gz
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