> We use `POST`, not `GET`, for the `/export` endpoint. The export operation does not modify your Metabase, but it's long and intensive, so we use `POST` to prevent accidental exports.
For now, these endpoints are synchronous. If the serialization process takes too long, the request can time out. In this case, we suggest using the CLI commands.
See [How export works](#how-export-works), [How import works](#how-import-works), and [Serialization best practices](#serialization-best-practices) for general information about serialization.
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substituting `YOUR_API_KEY` with your API key and `your-metabase-url` with the URL of your Metabase instance.
> We use `POST`, not `GET`, for the `/export` endpoint.
This command will download the files as a GZIP-compressed Tar file named `metabase_data.tgz`.