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Guys I am working on getting data as tables from QuickBase using Requests library (Python). I found somebody doing it using the URL of the report, but he added two parameters to the URL like that: &dlta=xs%xx&ridlist=xxxx.

Can anybody please tell me what are those two parameters, I searched for them in the internet but found nothing related to them.

Abdulrahman Hocaoglu
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I've been using Quickbase for over ten years and haven't seen documentation for either of these parameters. I have noticed that ridList seems to be used by Quickbase's grid edit view of reports (I suspect it's an ID for a server-side cached list of record IDs to display especially when using the type-ahead search of a report before choosing to grid edit) and dlta is used in the "Download report as CSV" button.

That example you're following may have simply copy and pasted a link generated by Quickbase as a hack to get a CSV instead of XML response. I recommend following the Quickbase HTTP API Reference instead. If you don't want an XML response, Quickbase also has a JSON RESTful API which may be easier to work with.

Nathan Hawe
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  • Thank you Nathan, you helped me solve it. Those parameters are part of the url generated by the "Save as a spreadsheet" button on Quickbase report pages. After I read your answer I went to QuickBase and realized that **ridlist** is itereated every time you download the report, I set it to 9999999999999 on my report and it worked – Abdulrahman Hocaoglu Aug 09 '22 at 20:46