Downloading data assets from a project

You can download data assets from a project to your local system.

Important: Take care when you download assets. Collaborators can upload any type of file into a project, including files that have malware or other types of malicious code.
Required permissions
You must have the Editor or Admin role in the project to download an asset.
Restriction
You can't download a query-based data asset from the project.

Download a data asset

To download a data asset that is in the project's storage, select Download from the ACTION menu next to the asset name.

For an alternate method of downloading data assets for a project, select Files in the Data side panel. Checkmark the data asset and select Download from the ACTION menu in the side panel.

Download a connected data asset

To download a connected data asset, use Data Refinery to run a job that saves the file as the output of a Data Refinery flow. The output of the Data Refinery flow is a new CSV file in the project’s storage.

  1. Click the asset name to open it.
  2. Click Prepare data.
  3. From the Jobs menu, click Save and create a job. Enter a job name and click Create and Run.
  4. Go back to the Assets page. Refresh the page. By default, the downloadable asset is named table-name_shaped.csv.
  5. Choose Download from the ACTION menu next to the asset name.

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Parent topic: Projects