# Compression

The compression algorithms **brotli** and **gzip** are supported.

If you are performing the API requests using or , compression will be enabled by default.

Otherwise, ensure to specify what compression you want to use using [](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Encoding)

Accept-Encoding

header.

The following examples show how to use the Microlink API with CLI, cURL, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP & Golang, targeting 'https://github.com/microlinkhq' URL:

### CLI Microlink API example

```
microlink https://github.com/microlinkhq
```

### cURL Microlink API example

```
curl -G "https://api.microlink.io" \
  -d "url=https://github.com/microlinkhq"
```

### JavaScript Microlink API example

```
import mql from '@microlink/mql'

const { data } = await mql('https://github.com/microlinkhq')
```

### Python Microlink API example

```
import requests

url = "https://api.microlink.io/"

querystring = {
    "url": "https://github.com/microlinkhq"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

### Ruby Microlink API example

```
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

base_url = "https://api.microlink.io/"

params = {
  url: "https://github.com/microlinkhq"
}

uri = URI(base_url)
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
response = http.request(request)

puts response.body
```

### PHP Microlink API example

```
<?php

$baseUrl = "https://api.microlink.io/";

$params = [
    "url" => "https://github.com/microlinkhq"
];

$query = http_build_query($params);
$url = $baseUrl . '?' . $query;

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET"
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #: " . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}
```

### Golang Microlink API example

```
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
    "io"
)

func main() {
    baseURL := "https://api.microlink.io"

    u, err := url.Parse(baseURL)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    q := u.Query()
    q.Set("url", "https://github.com/microlinkhq")
    u.RawQuery = q.Encode()

    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", u.String(), nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

    import mql from '@microlink/mql'

    const { data } = await mql('https://github.com/microlinkhq')

Click to run the code and see the API response

You can check what compression algorithm has been used after the HTTP negotiation seeing `content-encoding` response header.

    content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    content-encoding: br
    x-timestamp: 1750986229308
    x-response-time: 51ms
    x-rate-limit-reset: 1751097111
    x-pricing-plan: free
    x-region: iad
    x-fetch-mode: fetch
    x-rate-limit-remaining: 45
    x-cache-ttl: 86400000
    x-request-id: iad:2af5a47c-d15f-47a7-938e-6551fc81bf9c
    x-rate-limit-limit: 50
    x-cache-status: HIT
    x-content-type-options: nosniff
    x-client-ip: 88.20.23.25
    x-fetch-time: 305ms