hello, *test/api.py*def csv(): import pandas as pd from io import StringIO
import datetime today = datetime.date.today() req_vars = request.vars if len(req_vars) == 1 and '' in req_vars.values(): vars0 = "%s" % ",".join(["%s:%s" % (k,v) for k,v in req_vars.items() ] ) vars1 = vars0[:-1] import ast vars2 = ast.literal_eval(vars1) import json vars3 = json.loads(vars1) else: vars3 = req_vars stream = StringIO() filename = 'Test - %s' % (today) df = pd.DataFrame(vars3) df.to_csv(stream, index = False, header = True, encoding = 'utf-8', sep = ',') response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/csv' response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="{0}.csv"'.format(filename) return stream.getvalue() *terminal* curl -X POST --user admin:password -d '{"Name": ["Alex", "Ronald"], "Age": [10, 18] }' -i http://localhost:8000/test/api/csv *result on terminal* HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Powered-By: web2py Content-Type: text/csv Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Test - 2022-02-12.csv" Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Expires: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 07:26:56 GMT Pragma: no-cache Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 07:26:56 GMT Server: Rocket 1.2.6 Python/3.8.12 Content-Length: 27 Connection: keep-alive Name,Age Alex,10 Ronald,18 *result on system path* with no file downloaded on system path already tried curl *-o output.csv* -X POST --user admin:password -d '{"Name": ["Alex", "Ronald"], "Age": [10, 18] }' -i http://localhost:8000/test/api/csv got the same result *objection* REST API method POST automatic download csv with the data content from curl -X POST *question* how to do it in web2py way ? thanks and best regards, stifan -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/6f8e9ea0-6106-4d39-bd51-d429950ab2b3n%40googlegroups.com.