{"id":"reporting-export-api","slug":"reporting-export-api","title":"Export API","description":"A government statistician needs monthly transaction data delivered to a national financial intelligence unit in a specific XML schema, on a fixed schedule, with an encrypted transfer and a delivery receipt for audit purp","category":"analytics","tags":["analytics","real-time","compliance","geospatial"],"lastModified":"2026-02-05","source_ref":"content/modules/reporting-export-api.md","url":"/developers/reporting-export-api","htmlPath":"/developers/reporting-export-api","jsonPath":"/api/docs/modules/reporting-export-api","markdownPath":"/api/docs/modules/reporting-export-api?format=markdown","checksum":"498461da69d3ea29b55f27ea4b0e080f053a4ba1886965f628e69225a111320b","headings":[{"id":"overview","text":"Overview","level":2},{"id":"key-features","text":"Key Features","level":2},{"id":"use-cases","text":"Use Cases","level":2},{"id":"integration","text":"Integration","level":2}],"markdown":"# Export API\n\n## Overview\n\nA government statistician needs monthly transaction data delivered to a national financial intelligence unit in a specific XML schema, on a fixed schedule, with an encrypted transfer and a delivery receipt for audit purposes. Setting that up as a manual process creates operational risk every month. The Export API makes it a configured pipeline: format, schedule, destination, encryption, and retry logic are defined once, and the delivery happens without manual intervention until something needs changing.\n\nThe same API handles everything from a one-off CSV extract for an analyst to a high-volume nightly sync feeding an external data warehouse. Format support covers the full range needed in regulated environments: PDF/A-3 for archival, XML and JSON for regulatory submission schemas, Excel for working analysts, and Parquet for analytics platforms.\n\n```mermaid\nflowchart TD\n    A[Export Request] --> B{Source & Format Selection}\n    B -->|PDF/A-3| C[PDF Renderer]\n    B -->|Excel| D[Spreadsheet Builder]\n    B -->|JSON / XML| E[Schema Transformer]\n    B -->|Parquet / CSV| F[Column Encoder]\n    C --> G[Compression & Encryption]\n    D --> G\n    E --> G\n    F --> G\n    G --> H{Delivery Channel}\n    H -->|Cloud Storage| I[S3 / GCS / Azure Blob]\n    H -->|SFTP| J[Secure File Transfer]\n    H -->|Webhook| K[HTTP Endpoint]\n    H -->|Email| L[Encrypted Attachment]\n    I --> M[Audit Trail & Data Lineage]\n    J --> M\n    K --> M\n    L --> M\n```\n\n## Key Features\n\n- Multi-format export covering PDF/A-3, JSON, CSV, XML, Parquet, Excel, and additional data interchange formats suited to regulatory and intelligence workflows\n- High-throughput processing with efficient streaming and batch modes for datasets of any size\n- Real-time webhook integration delivering event-driven data to external systems with low latency\n- Scheduled export automation with cron-based scheduling and timezone-aware execution for international reporting obligations\n- Streaming exports for large datasets, enabling progressive delivery without memory constraints on either side of the transfer\n- Compression and encryption options at the job level, with configurable algorithms and key management for classified or sensitive transfers\n- Format conversion and data transformation during export, including field mapping and type casting for destination-specific schemas\n- Multiple delivery destinations: cloud storage, SFTP, HTTP endpoints, and email\n- Export job management with progress monitoring, status tracking, pause and resume, and resumable operations after transient failures\n- Automatic retry with exponential backoff for resilient delivery to external systems\n- Export templates for repeatable data extraction patterns, reducing configuration overhead for recurring submission types\n- Complete audit trail of all export operations with user context and data lineage for compliance and forensic review\n- Multi-tenant isolation ensuring organisational export data separation\n\n## Use Cases\n\n- **Regulatory Data Submission**: Compliance teams export structured compliance data in required formats for automated submission to regulatory authorities, with delivery receipts logged to the audit trail\n- **Data Warehouse Synchronisation**: Organisations schedule periodic exports to maintain synchronised copies of investigation and analytics data in external warehouses for long-term analysis\n- **Partner Data Sharing**: Intelligence teams share investigation results with partner organisations through secure, encrypted export deliveries scoped to the Community of Interest channel\n- **Business Intelligence Integration**: Analysts export processed data in analytics-friendly formats for consumption by external BI and reporting platforms, without manual data preparation\n\n## Integration\n\n- Connects with data sources through typed API interfaces for flexible data extraction\n- Compatible with major cloud storage providers for automated export delivery\n- Supports webhook-based event notification for downstream processing automation\n- Role-based access controls governing export permissions by user, format, and destination\n- Complete audit logging of all export jobs with data lineage tracking\n- Multi-tenant isolation ensuring organisational export data separation\n\n**Last Reviewed:** 2026-02-05\n**Last Updated:** 2026-04-14\n"}