# Creating an export job

To create your export job, you need to send a `POST` request to the export endpoint `https://api.intercom.io/export/content/data`.

The only parameters you need to provide are the range of dates that you want exported.

| Parameter | Required? | Description |
|  --- | --- | --- |
| created_at_after | Yes | The start date that you request data for. It must be formatted as a unix timestamp. |
| created_at_before | Yes | The end date that you request data for. It must be formatted as a unix timestamp. |


> 🚧 Limit of one active job
You can only have one active job per workspace. You will receive a HTTP status code of 429 with the message `Exceeded rate limit of 1 pending message data export jobs` if you attempt to create a second concurrent job.


> ❗️ Updated_at not included
It should be noted that the timeframe only includes messages **sent** during the time period and not messages that were only updated during this period. For example, if a message was updated yesterday but sent two days ago, you would need to set the created_at_after date before the message was sent to include that in your retrieval job.


Date ranges are inclusive
Requesting data for 2018-06-01 until 2018-06-30 will get all data for those days **including those specified** - e.g. 2018-06-01 00:00:00 until 2018-06-30 23:59:99.

## Example Request

### cURL


```curl
curl https://api.intercom.io/export/content/data \\\n-X POST \\\n-H 'Authorization:Bearer <Your access token>' \\\n-H 'Accept: application/json' \\\n-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '\n{\n  \"created_at_after\": 1527811200,\n  \"created_at_before\": 1530316800\n}'
```

## Example Response

### HTTP


```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n{\n  \"job_identifier\":\"v5xsp8c19ji0s82\",\n  \"status\":\"pending\",\n  \"download_expires_at\": \"\",\n  \"download_url\": \"\",\n}
```

## Example Errors


```http
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
{
  "type": "error.list",
  "request_id": null,
  "errors": [
      {
        "code": "bad_request",
        "message": "created_at_after is greater than created_at_before"
      }
  ]
}
```


```http
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
{
  "type": "error.list",
  "request_id": null,
  "errors": [
      {
        "code": "bad_request",
        "message": "'created_at_before' is a required parameter"
      }
  ]
}
```


```http
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
{
  "type": "error.list",
  "request_id": null,
  "errors": [
      {
        "code": "bad_request",
        "message": "bad 'random_param' parameter"
      }
  ]
}
```

## Returns

See [Export Job Model](/docs/references/2.6/rest-api/exports-content-stats/export-job-model)