Is it possible to download reactable as csv?

[rdatasculptor]

For a project I work on it is sometimes needed to be able to download the table and work on it in more details in e.g. excel.
Is it somehow possible to export a reactable as plain text file, such as csv?

Many thanks in advance!

[lukr90]

What kind of environment do you have your reactable in? For example, in a Shiny app you can add a shiny::downloadHandler() that allows the user to download the same data (also reactive) that goes into the table.

[rdatasculptor]

it's a standalone webpage. For now I solved it by adding a hyperlink to a csv file. But I was just wondering if there was a possibility within reactable.

[glin]

For standalone pages, a hyperlink to the raw data is a great solution. I use hyperlinks to raw data in all the reactable demos, like Twitter Followers:

reactable/vignettes/twitter-followers/twitter-followers.Rmd

Line 88 in 43bde05

Raw data: [`twitter_followers.csv`](twitter_followers.csv)

For Shiny apps, shiny::downloadHandler() works well and provides more control over the download, as @lukr90 mentions.

For something like a download button that exports table data with filters and sorting applied, that's not possible today, but it is an open feature request (#11). The table data is available through custom JS render/style functions (via state.sortedData), but just isn't easily accessible from outside the table yet.

[glin]

This is now possible to do from a standalone web page using the new JavaScript API in the development version (0.2.3.9000). A hyperlink to the raw data is still a great solution IMO, but you can use a CSV download button if the hyperlink isn't possible, or if you want users to be able to download a filtered dataset. See #11 (comment) for more details and examples.