# REST API Export Problem

**URL:** <https://forums.losant.com/t/rest-api-export-problem/1658>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [March 25, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/rest-api-export-problem/1658 "2019-03-25T04:06:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank\_Braswell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/frank_braswell/32/1122_2.png) [@Frank\_Braswell](https://forums.losant.com/u/Frank_Braswell)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/rest-api-export-problem/1658/7 "2019-03-27T03:06:31Z")

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Hi Julia,

I have the answer to the problem. After looking closely at your url, I noticed that the punctuation characters were escaped with a backslash:

…/export\?email\=ecn@systemsofmerritt.com\&start\=-1012000\&end\=0

The url below is what was giving us trouble:

…/export?email=ecn@systemsofmerritt.com&start=-1012000&end=0

I’m not sure why it even recognized the email, but it only does if it is the first thing after the “?”. I’m also not sure why I was having trouble with the Electric Imp http.post() request, but it seems to be working now. Perhaps I was feeding it a positive 360000 instead of a negative 360000.

Turns out the Postman app must take care of the special characters for us, so it isn’t a problem. (Thanks for recommending Postman! I think it will come in handy for lots of things.)

I really appreciate your help and patience!

-Frank

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