diff --git a/notion/client.py b/notion/client.py
index 8b0ab18..32bd363 100644
--- a/notion/client.py
+++ b/notion/client.py
@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@
 import json
 import re
 import uuid
+import time
+import os
 
-from requests import Session, HTTPError
+from requests import Session, HTTPError, get
 from requests.cookies import cookiejar_from_dict
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 from requests.packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry
+from zipfile import ZipFile
 
 from .block import Block, BLOCK_TYPES
 from .collection import (
@@ -168,6 +171,92 @@ def refresh_collection_rows(self, collection_id):
         row_ids = [row.id for row in self.get_collection(collection_id).get_rows()]
         self._store.set_collection_rows(collection_id, row_ids)
 
+    def _get_task_id(self, response):
+        """
+        When you export a file, notion creates a task to make the file with the 'enqueueTask' endpoint.
+        Then another method looks at the task ID and returns the file when the task finishes.
+        So, we need to save the taskId into a variable. This is a helper function to do that.
+        """
+        return response.json()['taskId']
+
+    # Source from https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/#raw-response-content
+    def _download_url(self, url, save_path, chunk_size=128):
+        """
+        Downloads the zip file and saves it to a file.
+        url - string of the url from which to download.
+        save_path - string of the file name to output the zip file into.
+        chunk_size = size of the chunk. This is adjustable. See the documentation for more info.
+        """
+        r = get(url, stream=True)
+        with open(save_path, 'wb') as fd:
+            for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size):
+                fd.write(chunk)
+
+    def _unzip_file(self, file, delete=True):
+        """
+        Helper function to unzip the zipped download.
+        file - string of the zip file name
+        delete - delete the zip file or not.
+        """
+        with ZipFile(file) as zipObj:
+            zipObj.extractall()
+        if delete:
+            os.remove(file)
+
+    def download_block(self, block_id, export_type, event_name="exportBlock", recursive=False, time_zone="America/Chicago", locale="en"):
+        """
+        block_id - id of the block. Should be a string.
+        export_type - Type of the output file. The options are 'markdown', 'pdf', 'html'
+        eventName - notion object you're exporting. I haven't seen anything other than exportBlock yet.
+        recursive - include sub pages or not.
+        time_zone - I don't know what values go here. I'm in the Chicago timezone (central) and this is what I saw in the request.
+        locale - self explanatory.
+
+        TODO: If export_type are 'pdf' or 'html', there is another field in exportOptions called 'pdfFormat'. It should be set to "Letter".
+              This needs to be implemented.
+        TODO: Add support for downloading a list of blocks
+        TODO: Review this code. Does it suck? Error handling? This is version 0 of this method and my first open source contribution.
+              Give me some criticisms so I can improve as a programmer!
+        """
+        tmp_zip = 'tmp.zip'
+        data = {
+            "task" : {
+                "eventName" : event_name,
+                "request" : {
+                    "blockId" : block_id,
+                    "recursive" : recursive,
+                    "exportOptions" : {
+                        "exportType" : export_type,
+                        "timeZone" : time_zone,
+                        "locale" : locale
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        task_id = self.post("enqueueTask", data).json()['taskId']
+        response = self.post("getTasks", {"taskIds" : [task_id]})
+
+        task = response.json()
+        
+        # This is a simple way to ensure that we're getting the data when it's ready.
+        while 'status' not in task['results'][0]:
+            time.sleep(0.1)
+            response = self.post('getTasks', {'taskIds' : [task_id]})
+            task = response.json()
+
+        while 'exportURL' not in task['results'][0]['status']:
+            time.sleep(0.1)
+            response = self.post('getTasks', {'taskIds' : [task_id]})
+            task = response.json()
+
+        url = task['results'][0]['status']['exportURL']
+
+        self._download_url(url, tmp_zip)
+        self._unzip_file(tmp_zip)
+
+
+
     def post(self, endpoint, data):
         """
         All API requests on Notion.so are done as POSTs (except the websocket communications).