There are two general types of briefings, Area Briefings and Route Briefings. Area Briefings provide information about weather, adverse conditions, and other information specific to a particular geographic location, such as an airport. Route briefings provide legal briefing information along a specified route of flight. An example of a command to get a route briefing is below. You'll note that it is similar to many of the other types of filings:
$ /usr/bin/curl -k -A "Mozilla/5.0" -i -c cookies/cookies. --header "Authorization: Basic bWVAbGV0bWVpbi5jb206TXlQYXNzdzByZCE=" --data "type=DOMESTIC&flightRules=VFR&aircraftIdentifier=DOMC&departure=HOU&destination=MIA&departureInstant=2015-03-04T15:06:00.0&flightDuration=PT1H30M&route=LEV%20Q102%20CYY%20SSCOT&altDestination1=LAX&altDestination2=SEA&briefingType=SIMPLE&altitudeFL=35&routeCorridorWidth=100&includeCodedMessages=true" "http://www.elabs.testafss.net/Website2/rest/FP/routeBriefing" -v
Currently the only un-deprecated briefing type is SIMPLE. The output of the briefing text is too long to be useful in this This format has the following conventions:
_NL_ - Newline break
********[Section Header Name]******** - Section Header
Note that both Area and Route Briefings provide support for plaintext translation. This makes the typically cryptic announcements in a briefing easier to read. You can get this data by setting the plaintext parameter to true.