Export Smartsheet as CSV using API - "media type not supported"

I'm able to export a smartsheet document as JSON with the API, however, our endpoint doesn't support nested data. So I'd like to get it either as flattened JSON or CSV.

Sample #4 here shows the CSV option:

// Sample 4: Get sheet as CSV
curl https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0/sheets/{sheetId} \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ll352u9jujauoqz4gstvsae05" \
-H "Accept: text/csv" \
-o output.csv

When I try it with the terminal or Postman it returns, "Invalid Accept header. Media type not supported."

Am I doing something wrong or is it no longer supported?

Otherwise I'm going to have to write something to reformat the JSON for our use case.

Thank you

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bsikes

I'm able to export a sheet to CSV using a PowerShell script and the sample code provided for the API. One thing I did notice, was that I also received the "Invalid Accept header. Media type not supported." message when I didn't have the correct Sheet ID being used. So even though the message points to your Accept header, that may not be where the problem is.

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bsikes

mindmischief

Did you open and verify the contents of the csv file? When I run the example without the -o flag, it returns the error in the terminal. When I run it with the -o flag, it just exports the same error to the created .csv file but the file doesn't contain the desired data.

I just went ahead and created the middleware to reformat the json but am curious if this csv output option works.

bsikes

Yep, CSV file had the correct content. For what it's worth, here's the PowerShell syntax I'm using that is working:

mindmischief

Figured it out and you were right. I was using the long string of text at the end of the permalink url, the one that contains numbers and letters, and not the shorter 16-digit sheetID which is all numbers.

I don't know why both work when returning json but only the sheetID works with csv.

Thanks for your help!

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