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How to export / download data as text / csv file
// This data is a mock from your real data
const data = [{"name": "apple"}, {"name": "onion"}, {"name": "banana"}]
// We want to write this data into a string
const dataToString = data => {
let resp = ""
data.forEach(e => resp += e.name + "\n")
return resp
}
// Create the hidden link to download data
const downloader = data => {
const hiddenElement = document.createElement('a')
hiddenElement.href = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURI(data)
hiddenElement.target = '_blank'
hiddenElement.download = 'MyDownload.csv'
hiddenElement.click()
}
const download = () => {
const csv = dataToString(data)
downloader(csv)
}
download()
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