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Add more signposting of the bulk data option to API help pages #1730

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struan opened this issue Jun 29, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #1731
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Add more signposting of the bulk data option to API help pages #1730

struan opened this issue Jun 29, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #1731

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struan commented Jun 29, 2023

We get a number of queries to help about people using the API for fetching large amounts of data and the answer is almost always use the XML. We should probably add something to both the API documentation and the FAQ to point people towards the raw data for cases like this.
struan added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 29, 2023
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add pointers to raw data from API help and FAQ
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Should hopefully cut down on some user support questions.

Fixes #1730
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