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stixb
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2 years ago
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/download_zip compression

If I'm not mistaken /download_zip endpoint creates a zip using method "store" (meaning 0% compression). So it doesn't make sense to use this API for optimising fetching size, since the resulting zip'...
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    Greg-DB
    2 years ago

    That's correct, the /2/files/download_zip endpoint was just designed as a way to enable apps to download entire folders at once, as opposed to individual files; it doesn't apply compression to optimize the amount of data that needs to be transferred overall.

     

    There isn't an option for requesting actual compression, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

That's correct, the /2/files/download_zip endpoint was just designed as a way to enable apps to download entire folders at once, as opposed to individual files; it doesn't apply compression to optimize the amount of data that needs to be transferred overall.

 

There isn't an option for requesting actual compression, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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