Improve docs on data formats

[corneliusroemer]

If I understand the docs correctly, I must send a POST to get metadata.tsv as opposed to JSON. Is that correct? Docs link: https://lapis-three.vercel.app/references/additional-request-properties/#data-format

If so, it would be nice to allow specifying the format via URL param, at least for common case of tsv, otherwise one can't request it quickly in the browser, and it's more complicated to do via curl as well.

Update, I missed the Note at the bottom - it's not very easy to find, rather than being a Note, this should be in the main text and also it should not refer to swagger (swagger is good but it's tedious, also chatgpt doesn't read swagger ;) )

[chaoran-chen]

You can also use the dataFormat parameter which is mentioned here but I agree that it is not mentioned clearly enough in the main text. Thanks for pointing this out!

Example: https://lapis.pathoplexus.org/ebola-sudan/sample/details?dataFormat=tsv&downloadAsFile=true

[chaoran-chen]

(You can also set the accept header in a GET request. I first misread your message/didn't read the note and thought that this is what you found out.)

[fengelniederhammer]

chatgpt doesn't read swagger

But it does read the OpenAPI spec (Swagger is also just a UI on top of that).

[corneliusroemer]

By reading I meant it reads it if Bing has indexed it - I'm not very sure that swagger gets indexed well by Bing.