Cookbook
apibackuper covers several backup workflows. This page is a task-oriented index: find the row that sounds like you, then follow the linked sections. If you are completely new, do the quick start first.
| You want to… | Start with |
|---|---|
| Archive a paginated public API | Quick start, run |
| Guess pagination keys from a live URL | detect |
| Estimate size before a long run | estimate |
| Resume a stopped job | run --resume, best practices |
| Fetch only changed records | update, incremental and update |
| Follow list items into detail endpoints | follow, follow and files |
| Download files attached to records | getfiles |
| Export JSONL, gzip, zstd, or Parquet | export |
| Authenticate against a protected API | Authentication, protected APIs |
| Stay under API rate limits | Rate limiting |
| Disable SSL verification for a broken cert | Troubleshooting |
| Customize requests with Python | Hooks |