# Exporting search results from appsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-search-results-from-appsearch/269653>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [April 9, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-search-results-from-appsearch/269653 "2021-04-09T01:17:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Sor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_sor/32/77188_2.png) [@Michael\_Sor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Sor)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-search-results-from-appsearch/269653/1 "2021-04-09T01:17:29Z")

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Requirement: Export user's search results to excel/csv format.

What's the best method to export a user search results to csv/excel format? We are looking at appsearch and was wondering if there's any apis or plugins that we can exports the user's search result. Additionally, wondering performance issues / concerns for exporting data. Similar to how solr can export csv ([Response Writers | Apache Solr Reference Guide 8.7](https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_7/response-writers.html#xlsx-response-writer)).

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Sor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_sor/32/77188_2.png) [@Michael\_Sor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Sor)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-search-results-from-appsearch/269653/2 "2021-04-12T14:17:37Z")

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Assuming we would need to use another plugin like logstash to export results? [Csv output plugin | Logstash Reference [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-csv.html) or we would need to leverage appsearch [App Search output plugin | Logstash Reference [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-elastic_app_search.html). I haven't played with the plugins enough to understand it's limitations such as size or how it would handle unstructured data like attachments (pdfs, powerpooints, etc..)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-search-results-from-appsearch/269653/3 "2021-05-10T14:17:52Z")

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