# Extract Messages to CSV via Rest API
**URL:** https://community.graylog.org/t/extract-messages-to-csv-via-rest-api/4403
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)
**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/extract-messages-to-csv-via-rest-api/4403 "2018-03-01T11:04:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@charlot.attard](https://community.graylog.org/u/charlot.attard)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/extract-messages-to-csv-via-rest-api/4403/1 "2018-03-01T11:04:25Z")
Hi All,
I am trying to export saved messages, into a csv via restapi. Ideally this will be done daily and trigerred automatically.
Thanks,
Charlot
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### Author:  [@jochen](https://community.graylog.org/u/jochen)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/extract-messages-to-csv-via-rest-api/4403/2 "2018-03-01T13:26:30Z")
You can do this via the Graylog REST API.
Take a look at the `/search/universal/relative/export` resource in the API browser of one of your running Graylog nodes to get some details.
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### Author:  [@charlot.attard](https://community.graylog.org/u/charlot.attard)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/extract-messages-to-csv-via-rest-api/4403/3 "2018-03-05T09:40:06Z")
Thanks a lot @jochen really helpful. Managed to get what I wanted 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/extract-messages-to-csv-via-rest-api/4403/4 "2018-03-19T09:40:49Z")
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