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# extending the Mixpanel API class for large data to avoid maxing out ram and slowing request to point of failure
def request_highvolume(self, methods, params):
		"""
			methods - List of methods to be joined, e.g. ['events', 'properties', 'values']
            will give us http://mixpanel.com/api/2.0/events/properties/values/
			params - Extra parameters associated with method
		"""
		params['api_key'] = self.api_key
		params['expire'] = int(time.time()) + 600   # Grant this request 10 minutes.

		if 'sig' in params: del params['sig']
		params['sig'] = self.hash_args(params)

		request_url = '/'.join([self.ENDPOINT, str(self.VERSION)] + methods) + '/?' + self.unicode_urlencode(params)
		request = urllib.urlretrieve(request_url, output_file)