Hey @Maxence 
Here are some online tools which I use to translate curl commands into a specific language 

• https://curl.trillworks.com/#r
• https://onlinedevtools.in/curl

You will have to use the httr R package to make it work. I believe this is similar to the Requests library in Python.

Let me know if this works!

Many thanks @Saish Redkar  ! I managed to make the request as I get successful 200 http response.

BUT I don’t understand the data I retrieved. It’s some kind of gibberish as follow:

Do you know how I can decode this? 

Looks like it’s returning a raw vector.

As per the docs, httr will automatically decode content from the server using the encoding supplied in the content-type HTTP header. 

Try 

content(res, "text") 

or 

content(res, "text", encoding = "ISO-8859-1")

This is what I get. I have a feeling the output could be a zip file as I see in the Export API but I don’t know how to read a zip file in R.

Hey Maxence,
Yup. The Export API outputs a zipped archive of JSON files, one or multiple files per hour depending on your input parameters.

I’m not well-versed with R that much but I use Python’s Request library pretty much for all my Amplitude API calls.

The httr webpage shows the following.

You can try extracting the output of the API call to a zipped file and then either manually unzipping it or extracting it using R code.

I did some digging and found this which might help you out. Hope this helps!

Is your use case to analyze the raw event json files in R?

@Saish Redkar you are a life savior ! :) 

From your suggestion I made it work by writing this:

bin <- content(res, "raw")
writeBin(bin, "myfile.zip")

Which downloaded mant zip files which contains many json files.

And I can read json files, thanks a lot ! :)

Glad that worked! Happy to have helped :)