# Transifex API is broken

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/transifex-api-is-broken/47764>\
**Category:** Translations\
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transifex-api-is-broken/47764 "2016-07-25T15:27:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/transifex-api-is-broken/47764/1 "2016-07-25T15:27:11Z")

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@samuelchan22 Maybe you can help us with an urgent problem. I submitted a support ticket on Friday morning but have not received a reply.

Our process for pulling translations from Transifex is broken. We have always been using this command:

```plaintext
tx pull --mode=developer --language=ar,cs,da,de,... -f

```

The `--mode=developer` parameter is now returning the empty strings that should only be returned from `--mode=translator` . But worse than that, the empty strings create invalid YML like this:

```plaintext
      mailing_list_mode:
        label: ""
        enabled: ""
        instructions: |
        daily: ""
        individual: ""

```

Notice `instructions` is not valid YML:

```plaintext
        instructions: |

```

How can we get `--mode-developer` results again?

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