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Quickstart guide: expressions, filters, and time-travel queries
A practical quickstart guide now covers tokens, response formats, named locations, time-travel, and expressions.
On May 26, 2025, we published a practical Quickstart Guide that walks through real API usage from token creation to advanced filtering.
What it covers
- Tokens and auth: how to create a token and send it in requests.
- Response formats: CSV, JSON, and NDJSON for pipelines.
- Named locations and aliases: cleaner outputs for multi-point queries.
- Time-travel (as-of): evaluate models as they existed at a given moment.
- timesList: request sparse timestamps without full ranges.
- Expressions and filters: compute derived fields and return only rows that match a condition.
Why it is useful
The Quickstart is designed to be copy/paste friendly so you can go from first call to production query quickly, and it links directly to deeper references when you need them.