---
title: "Service: /members/{member}/groups/{group}/uris/{uri}/export [GET]"
source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/api/services/uri-group-export_get.html
description: "Exports a document and its referenced documents in Universal Portable Format. Supports cross-reference traversal, image inclusion, metadata filtering, and version comparison. Returns an asynchronous process status with downloadable ZIP file upon completion."
last_updated: 2026-09-08T12:19:18+10:00
document_type: api_endpoint
operation_id: export-GET
resource_id: export
path_template: /members/{member}/groups/{group}/uris/{uri}/export
http_method: GET
api_category: export
implementation_version: 6.3000
api_since: 5.1102
deprecated_since: null
obsolete_since: null
api_support: experimental
cache_control: null
generated_at: 2026-09-02
tokens: ~1192
---

# /members/\{member\}/groups/\{group\}/uris/\{uri\}/export \[GET\]

## Description

[Export](../../reference/glossary/export.md) a document (URI) and any of its referenced documents. The `{group}`on the URL is used when downloading the result.

This service exports the document(s) specified using the [Universal Portable Format](../../psml/universal_format/universal_portable_format.md).

> **Note:** It is also the service supporting the [export](../../guide/publishing/ant_api/tasks/task_export.md) Ant task. If you’re working with Ant or outside a Web environment, it might be more appropriate to use the Ant task.

If there are more than 20 documents included in the export, this service starts an [Asynchronous process](../usage/asynchronous_process.md).

## Parameters

| Name | Description | Required | Type | Default value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| binary-metadata-only | Flag to specify if only metadata of non-PSML documents should be included in the export. *Requires PageSeeder v5.99 or higher.* | no | boolean | false |
| allurls | Whether to export all URLs used in this group | no | boolean | `false` |
| context | Context of the upload (without the site prefix), required if `uris` is specified | maybe | string |  |
| compare | Value of the version to compare with, if the value is a float or ISO 8601 date and none match, the closest previous version is loaded | no | string |  |
| excludes | Comma-separated list of filename patterns to exclude from the export, only used if `path` is specified and points to a folder | no | string |  |
| fail-on-error | Flag to specify if the first error should end the export | no | boolean | true |
| forward-depth | The depth of outgoing cross-references to traverse | no | integer | 0 |
| image-metadata-only | Flag to specify if only metadata of referenced images should be included in the export. *DEPRECATED use `binary-metadata-only` instead.* | no | boolean | false |
| includes | Comma-separated list of filename patterns to include in the export, only used if `path` is specified and points to a folder | no | string |  |
| independent | Flag whether to remove `_` from `_local` and `_external` folders so they can be uploaded, making the export self-contained | no | boolean | `false` |
| interpublication-xrefs | Flag whether to resolve templates of xrefs between publications. Uses the **default** publication of the target. | no | boolean | false |
| load-alternates | Flag to specify if alternate xrefs should be included in the export | no | boolean | false |
| load-images | Flag to specify if referenced images should be included in the export | no | boolean | true |
| metadata-only | Flag to specify if only metadata PSML should be included in the export | no | boolean | false |
| position | Position in the publication for numbering | no | integer | `1` |
| process-publication | Whether to process publication TOC, numbering and placeholders. *Requires PageSeeder v6.1 or higher.* | no | boolean | `false` |
| publicationid | The `ID` of the publication for  processing and versions | no | publicationid |  |
| reverse-depth | The depth of reverse cross-references to traverse | no | integer | 0 |
| since | Last modified date used to filter URIs to export, only used if `path` is specified and points to a folder | no | string |  |
| version | Value of the version to export. If the value is a float or ISO 8601 date and none match, the closest previous version is loaded | no | string |  |
| with | Comma-separated list of facets used to filter URIs to export, only used if `path` is specified and points to a folder | no | string |  |
| xref-types | Comma-separated list of cross-references to traverse (`none,embed,transclude`) | no | string | *\[all types\]* |

> **Note:** If `process-publication="true"` then transcluded content will be included in documents (except if `compare` specified), however `transclude` should still be specified in `xref-types` to follow xrefs in that content.

## Permission

User must have access to view the documents being exported.

## Response

This service returns the following XML (even if an asynchronous process has not been started):

```xml
<thread ... status="[status]" groupid="[group ID]">
  ...
  [<processing current="[number processed]" 
               total="[total processing]"/>]
  [<packaging current="[number packaged]" 
              total="[total packaging]"/>]
  [<zip>[zip file name]</zip>]
</thread>
```

When `status="complete"` the export can be downloaded using the URL:

`[scheme]://[my server]/ps/member-resource/[group ID or name]/[zip file name]`

For example:

`https://example.org/ps/member-resource/example-specs/export-1449617820208.zip`

## Error Handling

No specific errors expected for this service.