diff --git a/R/api.R b/R/api.R
index 46c019a..d707782 100644
--- a/R/api.R
+++ b/R/api.R
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 # ==============================================================================
 
 get_boxes_ = function (..., endpoint) {
-  response = httr::GET(endpoint, path = c('boxes'), query = list(...)) %>%
-    httr::content() %>%
-    osem_remote_error()
+  response = osem_request_(endpoint, path = c('boxes'), ...)
 
   if (length(response) == 0) {
     warning('no boxes found for this query')
@@ -23,27 +21,44 @@ get_boxes_ = function (..., endpoint) {
   df
 }
 
-get_box_ = function (..., endpoint) {
-  httr::GET(endpoint, path = c('boxes', ...)) %>%
-    httr::content() %>%
-    osem_remote_error() %>%
+get_box_ = function (boxId, endpoint) {
+  osem_request_(endpoint, path = c('boxes', boxId)) %>%
     parse_senseboxdata()
 }
 
 get_measurements_ = function (..., endpoint) {
-  result = httr::GET(endpoint, path = c('boxes', 'data'), query = list(...)) %>%
-    httr::content(encoding = 'UTF-8') %>%
-    osem_remote_error()
+  result = osem_request_(endpoint, c('boxes', 'data'), ..., type = 'text')
+
+  # parse the CSV response manually & mute readr
+  suppressWarnings({
+    result = readr::read_csv(result, col_types = readr::cols(
+      .default  = readr::col_factor(NULL),
+      createdAt = readr::col_datetime(),
+      value  = readr::col_double(),
+      lat    = readr::col_double(),
+      lon    = readr::col_double(),
+      height = readr::col_double()
+    ))
+  })
 
   class(result) = c('osem_measurements', class(result))
   result
 }
 
 get_stats_ = function (endpoint) {
-  result = httr::GET(endpoint, path = c('stats')) %>%
-    httr::content() %>%
-    osem_remote_error()
-
+  result = osem_request_(endpoint, path = c('stats'))
   names(result) = c('boxes', 'measurements', 'measurements_per_minute')
   result
 }
+
+osem_request_ = function (host, path, ..., type = 'parsed') {
+  res = httr::GET(host, httr::progress(), path = path, query = list(...))
+  #print(res$url)
+
+  if (httr::http_error(res)) {
+    content = httr::content(res, 'parsed', encoding = 'UTF-8')
+    stop(if ('message' %in% names(content)) content$message else httr::status_code(res))
+  }
+
+  content = httr::content(res, type, encoding = 'UTF-8')
+}
diff --git a/R/measurement.R b/R/measurement.R
index 13a2d81..20430bc 100644
--- a/R/measurement.R
+++ b/R/measurement.R
@@ -126,3 +126,25 @@ parse_get_measurements_params = function (params) {
 
   query
 }
+
+paged_measurements_req = function (query) {
+  if (is.na(query$from) && is.na(query$to))
+    return(do.call(get_measurements_, query))
+
+  # auto paging: make a request for one 31day interval each.
+  from = query$from
+  to = query$to
+
+  dates = data.frame()
+  while (from < to) {
+    in31days = from + as.difftime(31, units = 'days')
+    # TODO: how to do append to a vector / list instead?
+    dates = rbind(dates, data.frame(from = from, to = min(in31days, to)))
+    from = in31days + as.difftime(1, units = 'secs')
+  }
+
+  print(dates)
+
+  # TODO: iterate over all those dates and call get_measurements_
+
+}
diff --git a/R/measurement_utils.R b/R/measurement_utils.R
index 990ee73..a4aba4c 100644
--- a/R/measurement_utils.R
+++ b/R/measurement_utils.R
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #' @export
 plot.osem_measurements = function (x, ...) {
   # TODO: group/color by sensor_id
-  plot(value~createdAt, x, col = factor(x$sensorId), ...)
+  plot(value~createdAt, x, col = x$sensorId, ...)
   invisible(x)
 }
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index d0621bb..5c2ba2e 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -11,22 +11,11 @@ osem_as_sf = function (x, ...) {
   sf::st_as_sf(x, ..., coords = c('lon', 'lat'), crs = 4326)
 }
 
-osem_remote_error = function (response) {
-  suppressWarnings({
-    hasCode = !is.null(response$code)
-  })
-
-  if (hasCode) stop(response$message)
-  invisible(response)
-}
-
 # parses from/to params for get_measurements_ and get_boxes_
 parse_dateparams = function (from, to) {
   from = utc_date(from)
   to = utc_date(to)
-  if (from - to > 0)
-    stop('"from" must be earlier than "to"')
-
+  if (from - to > 0) stop('"from" must be earlier than "to"')
   c(date_as_isostring(from), date_as_isostring(to))
 }