> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://spreecommerce.org/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Download an export

> Streams the exported CSV with `Content-Disposition: attachment`. Returns 422 with `code: export_not_ready` while `done` is still `false`. The endpoint is JWT/API-key protected, so SPA clients must fetch it (with `Authorization` header) and trigger the browser download via a Blob URL — a top-level navigation cannot carry the JWT.

**Required scope:** the read scope of the exported resource — `read_products` for product exports, `read_customers` for customer exports, etc. (for API-key authentication).



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/admin.yaml get /api/v3/admin/exports/{id}/download
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Admin API
  contact:
    name: Spree Commerce
    url: https://spreecommerce.org
    email: hello@spreecommerce.org
  description: >
    Spree Admin API v3 - Administrative API for managing products, orders, and
    store settings.


    ## Authentication


    The Admin API requires a secret API key passed in the `x-spree-api-key`
    header.

    Secret API keys can be generated in the Spree admin dashboard.


    ## Response Format


    All responses are JSON. List endpoints return paginated responses with
    `data` and `meta` keys.

    Single resource endpoints return a flat JSON object.


    ## Resource IDs


    Every resource is identified by an opaque string ID (e.g. `prod_86Rf07xd4z`,

    `variant_k5nR8xLq`, `or_UkLWZg9DAJ`). Use these IDs everywhere — URL paths,

    request bodies, and Ransack filters all accept them directly.


    ## Error Handling


    Errors return a consistent format:

    ```json

    {
      "error": {
        "code": "validation_error",
        "message": "Validation failed",
        "details": { "name": ["can't be blank"] }
      }
    }

    ```
  version: v3
servers:
  - url: http://{defaultHost}
    variables:
      defaultHost:
        default: localhost:3000
security: []
tags:
  - name: Authentication
    description: Admin user login, logout, token refresh, and current user profile
  - name: Allowed Origins
    description: CORS allowlist for storefront and admin client origins
  - name: API Keys
    description: Secret and publishable API keys
  - name: Categories
    description: >-
      Hierarchical product categories — tree management, repositioning, and
      product assignments
  - name: Channels
    description: >-
      Sales channels, product publication across channels, and per-channel order
      routing rules
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: >-
      Custom field definitions for products, variants, customers, and other
      resources
  - name: Customer Groups
    description: >-
      Customer groups for segmenting customers (e.g. wholesale, VIP) used by
      pricing and promotions
  - name: Customers
    description: Customer profiles, addresses, credit cards, and store credits
  - name: Exports
    description: Async CSV exports of admin resources
  - name: Fulfillments
    description: Order fulfillments — shipments, fulfill, cancel, resume, split
  - name: Gift Cards
    description: Gift cards and gift card batches
  - name: Imports
    description: >-
      Async CSV imports of admin resources, with per-row status and failed-row
      retry
  - name: Markets
    description: >-
      Markets — geographic groupings of countries used for pricing, tax, and
      fulfillment rules
  - name: Option Types
    description: >-
      Option types and option values used to build product variants (e.g. Size,
      Color)
  - name: Orders
    description: Orders, order items, applied gift cards, and applied store credits
  - name: Payment Methods
    description: Configured payment providers and their available types
  - name: Payments
    description: Order payments — list, capture, void
  - name: Pricing
    description: >-
      Prices and price lists for currency-, market-, and customer-group-specific
      pricing
  - name: Products
    description: >-
      Products, taxons/categories, product custom field values, and bulk product
      operations
  - name: Promotions
    description: Promotions, promotion rules, promotion actions, and coupon codes
  - name: Refunds
    description: Order refunds
  - name: Settings
    description: Store-level settings — store profile, tags, store credit categories
  - name: Staff
    description: Admin users, roles, and invitations to the store
  - name: Stock Locations
    description: Warehouses and physical fulfillment locations
  - name: Variants
    description: >-
      Product variants — the individual SKUs (size/color combinations) sold
      under a product
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Webhook endpoints and webhook delivery history
paths:
  /api/v3/admin/exports/{id}/download:
    get:
      tags:
        - Exports
      summary: Download an export
      description: >-
        Streams the exported CSV with `Content-Disposition: attachment`. Returns
        422 with `code: export_not_ready` while `done` is still `false`. The
        endpoint is JWT/API-key protected, so SPA clients must fetch it (with
        `Authorization` header) and trigger the browser download via a Blob URL
        — a top-level navigation cannot carry the JWT.


        **Required scope:** the read scope of the exported resource —
        `read_products` for product exports, `read_customers` for customer
        exports, etc. (for API-key authentication).
      parameters:
        - name: x-spree-api-key
          in: header
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: Authorization
          in: header
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: CSV file
          content:
            application/json: {}
            text/csv:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary
      security:
        - api_key: []
          bearer_auth: []
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: javascript
          label: Spree Admin SDK
          source: |-
            import { createAdminClient } from '@spree/admin-sdk'

            const client = createAdminClient({
              baseUrl: 'https://your-store.com',
              secretKey: 'sk_xxx',
            })

            // Fetch with the Bearer token, then drive the browser download:
            const res = await fetch(exp.download_url, {
              headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }
            })
            const blob = await res.blob()
            const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob)
            const a = Object.assign(document.createElement('a'), {
              href: url,
              download: exp.filename
            })
            a.click()
            URL.revokeObjectURL(url)
        - lang: bash
          label: Spree CLI
          source: spree api get /exports/{id}/download
components:
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      type: apiKey
      name: x-spree-api-key
      in: header
      description: Secret API key for admin access
    bearer_auth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: JWT token for admin user authentication

````