Our API supports compression in order to minimize the content transferred to a client application. The supported formats are GZIP and Deflate.

Compression should be considered if the client application intends to receive a large amount of information from the API. It could minimize the latency when receiving a large amount of data as illustrated below:

Calling all variants without compression:

Calling all variants with compression:

Getting started with compression

HL API solution must receive the supported format in the request header “Accept-Encoding” to be able to send back the compressed content to the client: