# Where does the export saved Object API put the exported objects?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378 "2020-06-24T05:35:04Z")
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### Author:  [@mykael](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mykael)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378/1 "2020-06-24T05:35:04Z")
OK, used curl to drive the saved object export api:
`curl -X POST "localhost:9200/api/saved_objects/_export" -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"objects\": [{ \"type\": \"dashboard\" }], \"includeReferencesDeep\": true }"`
Basically dumping out all of the dashboards and everything that feeds into them.
I get back a response saying it's done it, but where is the file holding the exported objects? When I do it through my web browser I get a new file - exported.ndjson - downloaded, but all curl is giving me is a 'great done it!'.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378/2 "2020-06-24T05:40:25Z")
It'll usually save it in the directory you ran the command from.
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### Author:  [@mykael](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mykael)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378/3 "2020-06-24T05:57:30Z")
Nope, no sign of any new files.
The response is:
`{"_index":"api","_type":"saved_objects","_id":"_export","_version":5,"result":"updated","_shards":{"total":2,"successful":1,"failed":0},"_seq_no":4,"_primary_term":1}`
There are definitely some dashboards loaded into Kibana.
Any guesses as to what the filename would be? If I add a -o to curl, I just get the response written to a file...
I'm sending it to port 9200. If I try sending it to 5601 - as the manual indicates - I get:
`{"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"Invalid request payload JSON format"}`
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378/4 "2020-06-24T06:00:39Z")
Ahh ok.
You need to be talking to the Kibana host/IP, which uses port 5601, not Elasticsearch, which uses port 9200. If you talk to Elasticsearch with that query, you are actually creating/updating a document in an index called `api`. Which is what that response is saying. You should be able verify that by checking with `_cat/indices?v`.
You should also be using the `-o` flag for curl as you mention, I did forget that part myself 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-the-export-saved-object-api-put-the-exported-objects/238378/5 "2020-07-22T06:00:42Z")
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