Global Fishing Watch API
API v3Bulk Download

Download report files

Asynchronous bulk access to large data slices, starting with fixed infrastructure detections from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery.

This endpoint allows to download the data once the report is “done”.

Download Bulk Report - Examples

These examples are available: In these examples, we use the report generated in the endpoint from the Create Bulk Report which has as report id: adbb9b62-5c08-4142-82e0-b2b575f3e058.

  1. Example 1 (GET) - Get url of the data file to download it - README
  2. Example 2 (GET) - Get url of the data file to download it - DATA
  3. Example 3 (GET) - Get url of the data file to download it - GEOM

Download Bulk Report - Specifications

GET https://gateway.api.globalfishingwatch.org/v3/bulk-reports/{id}/download-file-url

GET
/api/v3/bulk-reports/{id}/download-file-url

Authorization

ApiKeyAuth
AuthorizationBearer <token>

In: header

Path Parameters

id*string

Query Parameters

file*string

File to download

Value in

  • "README"
  • "DATA"
  • "GEOM"
curl -X GET "https://example.com/api/v3/bulk-reports/string/download-file-url?file=README"
{  "createdAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",  "dataset": "string",  "fileSize": 0,  "filepath": "fixed_infrastructure_202407.csv",  "filters": [    "type = 'fishing'"  ],  "format": "",  "geom": {},  "id": "",  "name": "my-report",  "ownerId": 0,  "ownerType": "string",  "status": "pending",  "updatedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"}

Download Bulk Report – Response

Once the report is ready (status: done), this endpoint returns a signed URL to download the requested file (DATA, README, or GEOM). The response is a JSON object containing a single url field that points to a downloadable file hosted on Global Fishing Watch's cloud infrastructure.

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