How to complete the challenge GET /todos/export (200) CSV download

This challenge uses an export endpoint instead of the normal GET /todos endpoint. The response body is CSV and the response headers tell the client to treat the response as a downloadable file.

GET /todos/export CSV download

Issue a GET request on the /todos/export?format=csv end point and receive a CSV response with a Content-Disposition header for todos.csv.

• GET asks the API to return the todos.
• /todos/export uses a format query parameter to choose the representation.
• format=csv requests comma-separated values.
• Content-Disposition: attachment tells the client this can be treated as a file download.
• filename="todos.csv" suggests the download filename.
• Add the X-CHALLENGER header to track progress.

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point "/todos/export?format=csv"
  • if running locally that endpoint would be
    • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos/export?format=csv
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion.
• The response status code should be 200.
• Check the Content-Type response header starts with text/csv.
• Check the Content-Disposition response header is attachment; filename="todos.csv".
• Check the response body contains CSV data.

The format query parameter controls the export type for this endpoint, so this challenge does not depend on the request Accept header.

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Example Request

> GET /todos/export?format=csv HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.eviltester.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: text/csv

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/csv
< Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="todos.csv"
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid

Example Response body:

id,title,doneStatus,description
1,scan paperwork,false,
2,file paperwork,true,

Extra Experiment

Open todos.csv in your browser to request the CSV export directly.

Other format parameter values to try include json, xml, text, html, ndjson, jsonl, json-seq, tsv, and tab-delimited. The text aliases txt and plain, JSON sequence alias jsonseq, and tab aliases tab, tabs, and tab-separated are also supported.

Try changing the request Accept header to application/json while keeping format=csv. The export endpoint should still return CSV because the format is selected by the query parameter.