Save/export search results as spreadsheet

[PhilReedData]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

• Report from the ELIXIR Training Platform meeting February 2026, from the people making a learning path about research data management.
• They explained it was tricky to identify which materials they want to use in a learning path.
• Specifically, they would use the search feature of TeSS with various queries/filters and then struggle with keeping track of materials when reviewing each one for suitability for inclusion in the path.
• Example search https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials?q=rdm&target_audience=Researchers
• Example from Zoi: finding related material in TeSS to the FAIRferm project

Describe the solution you'd like

• They requested the ability to save the search results as a spreadsheet/table.
  • Select specific fields to include
• This might be a button in the search results page, export as table (Excel or CSV).
• I noticed that there is JSON-LD for the search results within the page metadata, so it should be possible to pull that out into a table.
• The page for a specific event/material you can provide just the JSON-LD by appending .jsonld to the URL. There is no equivalent for search results (where the query is in the URL GET variables). I wonder if an external tool (JSON to CSV) might work better if fed just the JSON-LD, without having to extract it from a page (such as OpenRefine).
• Is it possible to add the conversion directly in TeSS? Could someone write a browser extension to do it?

[PhilReedData]

I just remembered we have some of this already in the API
eg https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials.json_api?scientific_topics=RNA-Seq

So change the URL from the search results, replace materials with materials.json_api .

That makes things easier.

[PhilReedData]

Discussed at developers call today. An external small app could use the TeSS API to produce a spreadsheet as suggested here.