running `curl` command indicated by Swagger does not decode properly

[zacharyburnett]

I apologize if this is a simple question; I'm not too familiar with this kind of thing.

running an example curl command indicated by the Swagger page:

curl -X 'GET' 'https://api.v2.sondehub.org/amateur/telemetry?duration=3h&payload_callsign=N1YIP-11' -H 'accept: application/json' -o test.json

results in the following bytes:

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Upon visiting the URL, my browser decodes the JSON output correctly; however, I am unable to decode this programmatically. What encoding are these in? Is this compressed?

[zacharyburnett]

ah never mind, I pored through the response header again and noticed content-encoding: gzip; I just needed to enable the gzip feature for reqwest in my Cargo.toml and it worked 😅

[darksidelemm]

Yep, all responses are compressed to save us bandwidth!

What are you trying to grab? If you're going to be regularly getting data, please use websockets (e.g. using pysondehub ) to get the data 'live' rather than having to poll regularly.