Title: Automatic Table Export
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: December 1, 2022
Last modified: May 12, 2025

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Automatically export and save tables to files on the server after they were modified!

# Automatic Table Export

To automatically create a backup of a modified table or to e.g. make table data 
available to other/external applications, that can then retrieve e.g. a CSV file
of the table data from a certain URL, TablePress can be configured to automatically
saves edited tables to a file on the server.

## Feature description

This feature modules allows configuring that tables are automatically exported and
saved to files on the server whenever they are edited. It is possible to configure
the location and the file export format.

[Use this feature with a TablePress Premium plan today](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md)

## Usage instructions

To use this feature with your tables, activate the “Automatic Table Export” feature
module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure
the desired export settings on the “Export” screen of TablePress.

You can configure the desired file location, a server path that must be writable
by the webserver/PHP, the desired [export formats](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-import-export-formats/),
and (if used) the CSV file delimiter.

![Screenshot of the "Automatic Table Export" configuration section in the TablePress
Premium versions.](https://tablepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/automatic-table-
export.png)

The “Automatic Table Export” configuration section in the TablePress Premium versions.

The “Automatic Table Export” feature module is part of the [**TablePress Premium plans**](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md).

**On this page**

 1. [Feature description](https://tablepress.org/modules/automatic-table-export/#feature-description)
 2. [Usage instructions](https://tablepress.org/modules/automatic-table-export/#instructions)