## Export business data

`POST https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/{external_id}/exports`

Starts an export of everything PaalChat holds for the business - contacts (with consent
and preferences), conversations with notes, messages with content, media details - as a
ZIP of JSON Lines files. Poll [Get export](/docs/api/get-export) until `status` is
`ready`, then download `url` (15 minutes; the file is kept for 24 hours).

Ability: `data.manage`

### Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `external_id` | string | yes | Your own ID for the business (Multi-SKUUL - the tenant ID). Max 191 characters. Pattern `^[A-Za-z0-9._:-]+$` |

### Request

```bash
curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/exports' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $PAALCHAT_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Accept: application/json'
```

### Responses

- **202** - Started.
- **401** - unauthenticated - missing, invalid, revoked or expired token

```json
{
  "error": {"code": "unauthenticated", "message": "A valid product token is required."}
}
```

- **403** - missing_ability, product_suspended or product_token_required

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "missing_ability",
    "message": "This token does not have the ability this request needs."
  }
}
```

- **404** - not_found - not yours, or does not exist

```json
{"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Business not found."}}
```

- **429** - rate_limited - over 300 requests/minute for this product

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "Too many requests. Slow down and retry after the Retry-After header."
  }
}
```