The OSM (editing) API currently returns data in the standard OSM CML XML representation and limits responses both in geographic extent and size, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 capabilities and map endpoint. If you simply want to retrieve the same area in multiple formats https://extract.bbbike.org/ is something you should look at. http://download.geofabrik.de/ has downloads in pbf format for individual countries.

The OSM (editing) API currently returns data in the standard OSM CML representation and limits responses both in geographic extent and size, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 capabilities and map endpoint. If you simply want to retrieve the same area in multiple formats https://extract.bbbike.org/ is something you should look at.at. http://download.geofabrik.de/ has downloads in pbf format for individual countries.

The OSM (editing) API currently returns data in the standard OSM CML representation and limits responses both in geographic extent and size, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6 capabilities and map endpoint. If you simply want to retrieve the same area in multiple formats https://extract.bbbike.org/ is something you should look at.