diff --git a/app/static/js/cqi/api/client.js b/app/static/js/cqi/api/client.js
index daf2a4011b2e761674398850d1130ed24bfbf0c8..9b84336d0a2481589ede03bf9e8da2d94cfc4a9d 100644
--- a/app/static/js/cqi/api/client.js
+++ b/app/static/js/cqi/api/client.js
@@ -630,7 +630,11 @@ cqi.api.APIClient = class APIClient {
   async ext_corpus_static_data(corpus) {
     const fn_name = 'ext_corpus_static_data';
     const fn_args = {corpus: corpus};
-    return await this.#request(fn_name, fn_args);
+    let compressedEncodedData = await this.#request(fn_name, fn_args);
+    let encodedData = pako.inflate(compressedEncodedData);
+    let textDecoder = new TextDecoder();
+    let data = textDecoder.decode(encodedData);
+    return JSON.parse(data);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/app/static/js/cqi/models/corpora.js b/app/static/js/cqi/models/corpora.js
index 2b271811ad0953f63b678d34e6e055d36c17d415..8128c47f024806cf59f60359ac78d34d922acc12 100644
--- a/app/static/js/cqi/models/corpora.js
+++ b/app/static/js/cqi/models/corpora.js
@@ -138,15 +138,7 @@ cqi.models.corpora.CorpusCollection = class CorpusCollection extends cqi.models.
     /************************************************************************
      *                     Custom additions for nopaque                     *
      ************************************************************************/
-    // returnValue.static_data = await this.client.api.ext_corpus_static_data(corpusName);
-    let tmp = await this.client.api.ext_corpus_static_data(corpusName);
-    console.log(tmp);
-    let inflated = pako.inflate(tmp);
-    console.log(inflated);
-    let decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8');
-    console.log(decoder);
-    let decoded = decoder.decode(inflated);
-    returnValue.static_data = JSON.parse(decoded);
+    returnValue.static_data = await this.client.api.ext_corpus_static_data(corpusName);
     return returnValue;
   }