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Output Options

Metabase customers have several output options:

  1. HTTPS—Customers can call the Metabase database using HTTPS as well as HTTP.
  2. Paragraph Breaks—The content of an item that is contained in the tag by default includes line breaks to show where the original text on the web page has paragraph breaks (as set-up by <p> and <br> tags in the original article’s HTML). Alternatively, it is possible to retrieve the article content text without the line breaks, as flat unformatted text.
  3. HTML Markup—by default content is stripped of all HTML markup (e.g. <a>, <p>, <em>, <strong>, etc.) There is an optional field named <contentWithMarkup> which is available if you would like to receive the content with the original HTML markup intact.
  1. Compression—Metabase supports compression for all HTTP or HTTPS requests. Compression can save you bandwidth, and for services like Metabase where content is downloaded continuously, bandwidth can be beneficial.
  2. XML—The default format for Metabase payload is XML and content will be delivered in XML without any additional commands. However, adding “&format=xml” to a Metabase call with also specify that the payload be delivered in XML format.
  3. JSON—The Metabase payload can also be delivered in a JSON format by adding “&format=json” to a Metabase call.