.. include:: ../../_resources.rst

.. _http-api-export:

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HTTP export API configuration
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Introduction
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For enabling :ref:`data-export` via HTTP, just forward GET requests to the timeseries
database, and let the transformation machinery handle all the rest.

:ref:`data-export` means access to raw data in different
output formats as well as data plots.

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Setup
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This can be achieved by configuring a generic forwarder application:

.. literalinclude:: ../../_static/content/etc/examples/forwarders/http-api-export.ini
    :language: ini
    :linenos:
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