[OSM-talk] Downloading compressed data from API

[Ben Laenen]

On Sunday 10 August 2008, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Ben Laenen wrote:
> > I was wondering if it's possible to download data from the API in a
> > (bz2/g)zipped format? This would be much more kind to bandwidth
> > since a 10MB file for the plain data can be easily compressed to
> > under 1MB.
>
> It is compressed if your user agent indicates that it supports
> compressed transfers.

Hmm, I was hoping more for some extra tag attached to the url...

So, how should I do that when I use wget to download the data? I have 
shell scripts to download data automatically and wget is by far the 
easiest way to do that, but can't find any documentation for that.

Ben