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title: "Retrieving Bulk Data"
slug: "retrieving-bulk-data"
updated: 2022-01-18T02:22:05Z
published: 2022-01-18T02:22:05Z
canonical: "docs.echo.stream/retrieving-bulk-data"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Retrieving Bulk Data

The "ticket" given to you when you store Bulk Data is an HTTPS GET URL.

For most modern languages and HTTP libraries, accessing a Bulk Data Storage object is as simple as performing an HTTPS GET request using this URL. These languages and libraries (such as Python's `requests` library) will automatically detect the `Content-Encoding` and decompress the downloaded object for you.

However, if you are using a lower-level library or a tool (that does not automatically request a compressed transfer and then decompress the result), you will have to examine the header and perform the decompression yourself.

All Bulk Data Storage objects are compressed with either `gzip` or `deflate`. Which compression algorithm is used is determined by the object creator.