---
title: "Export TM"
method: POST
path: "/tms/{tmId}/exports"
tags: ["Translation Memory"]
---

# Export TM

`POST /tms/{tmId}/exports`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2`
- URL: `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2/tms/{tmId}/exports`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/crowdin/apis/crowdin-api-v2/docs/tms/:tmId/exports/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

**Required scopes:** `tm` (Read only).

## Path parameters

- `tmId` integer, required

## Request body

- TmExportForm
  - `sourceLanguageId` string: Defines Source Language in language pair. Get via [List Supported Languages](#operation/api.languages.getMany)
  - `targetLanguageId` string: Defines Target Language in language pair. Get via [List Supported Languages](#operation/api.languages.getMany)
  - `format` 'tmx' | 'csv' | 'xlsx': Defines TMs file format

## Response `202`

TM export was successfully started

- TmExportResource: Base schema of resource container. Container is a wrapper object that contains payload in required `data` property and provides space for adding any other metadata.
  - `data` TmExport, required
    - `identifier` string
    - `status` string
    - `progress` integer: in percentages
    - `attributes` object
      - `sourceLanguageId` string
      - `targetLanguageId` string
      - `format` string
    - `createdAt` string, date-time
    - `updatedAt` string, date-time
    - `startedAt` string, date-time, nullable
    - `finishedAt` string, date-time, nullable

## Other responses

- `404`: TM or language with specified id was not found
- `405`: Method Not Allowed
- `409`: Conflict

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/crowdin/apis/crowdin-api-v2.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/crowdin/apis/crowdin-api-v2/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/crowdin/apis/crowdin-api-v2/revisions/27aae7751699?raw)