Exporting content

Overview

Workflows provide a persistent store of the analytic steps and code that make up your analysis. However, in certain situations you may want to download some or all of the workflow contents in order to have backup or artifact of your work.

Workflows are certainly not a closed ecosystem, and there are many different mechanisms through which you can export you work:

Download workflow code

To extract all code in your workflow, including information about the workflow tree and its operations, click on the Download workflow code link in the workflow overview. This will create a ZIP file with the contents of all transforms and notebooks, with an included JSON file that provides relationship information about the nodes in your workflow.

The README file in this ZIP directory provides additional documentation and context. The contents of this export contain a fully reproducible snapshot of your workflow at the point in time it was downloaded.

Download metadata

Top-level metadata about the workflow can be downloaded by clicking on the Download metadata link in the workflow overview. Metadata can be downloaded in the DataCite, Schema.org, and Redivis API schema specifications.

Download citations

From the workflow overview, click on the Bibliography button to view a full bibliography of your workflow and its data sources. You can copy or download this citation information in APA, CFF, or BibTex formats.

Download and Export data

Any table within your workflow can be download or exported to a supported environment, or read into another environment through the Redivis API, pursuant to any export restrictions that may be inherited from that table's source dataset(s).

See the full documentation on exporting tables to learn more.

Extract content via the API

The Redivis API (and Python and R wrappers) provide numerous methods for interfacing with a workflow and its contents, and in many cases will be the most flexible mechanism to extract workflow metadata and data from external systems.