diff --git a/src/GitHub/Data/Content.hs b/src/GitHub/Data/Content.hs
index 7a4dca9b..1d28a0da 100644
--- a/src/GitHub/Data/Content.hs
+++ b/src/GitHub/Data/Content.hs
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ data ContentItem = ContentItem {
 instance NFData ContentItem where rnf = genericRnf
 instance Binary ContentItem
 
-data ContentItemType = ItemFile | ItemDir
+data ContentItemType = ItemFile | ItemSymlink | ItemDir
   deriving (Show, Data, Typeable, Eq, Ord, Generic)
 
 instance NFData ContentItemType where rnf = genericRnf
@@ -149,9 +149,10 @@ instance FromJSON ContentItem where
 
 instance FromJSON ContentItemType where
   parseJSON = withText "ContentItemType" $ \t -> case T.toLower t of
-    "file" -> pure ItemFile
-    "dir"  -> pure ItemDir
-    _      -> fail $ "Unknown ContentItemType: " <> T.unpack t
+    "file"    -> pure ItemFile
+    "dir"     -> pure ItemDir
+    "symlink" -> pure ItemSymlink
+    _         -> fail $ "Unknown ContentItemType: " <> T.unpack t
 
 instance FromJSON ContentInfo where
   parseJSON = withObject "ContentInfo" $ \o ->
diff --git a/src/GitHub/Request.hs b/src/GitHub/Request.hs
index 2481deea..1b7e531a 100644
--- a/src/GitHub/Request.hs
+++ b/src/GitHub/Request.hs
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ import GitHub.Data.Request
 
 import Paths_github (version)
 
+import Control.Monad.IO.Class (liftIO)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- Convenience
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -235,6 +237,7 @@ executeRequestWithMgrAndRes mgr auth req = runExceptT $ do
     performHttpReq :: forall rw mt b. ParseResponse mt b => HTTP.Request -> GenRequest mt rw b -> ExceptT Error IO (HTTP.Response b)
     performHttpReq httpReq Query {} = do
         res <- httpLbs' httpReq
+        liftIO $ LBS.writeFile "response.json" (HTTP.responseBody res)
         (<$ res) <$> unTagged (parseResponse httpReq res :: Tagged mt (ExceptT Error IO b))
 
     performHttpReq httpReq (PagedQuery _ _ l) =