# Scene export - developing additional format

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/scene-export-developing-additional-format/715
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/scene-export-developing-additional-format/715 "2018-10-12T03:26:12Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicholas_yue/32/5203_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nicholas_Yue)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/scene-export-developing-additional-format/715/1 "2018-10-12T03:26:12Z")

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Hi,

I wish to add a new scene export format for Paraview. Is this something that can be done via a Python/C++ plugin for Paraview or do I have to make the change at the Paraview source code level and do a full recompile and packaging/deploy ?

Cheers

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### Author: ![banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/banesullivan/32/11714_2.png) [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/scene-export-developing-additional-format/715/2 "2018-10-12T04:28:12Z")

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I am definitely not one to have an answer for this, but I can point you to a Python script for [vtk.js](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/docs/) that will export ParaView data scenes. I imagine it might be possible to make a new Python plugin in PV v5.6 that could export an entire data scene.

The mentioned export script is found on [**this page**](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/examples/SceneExplorer.html) and the actual raw script is [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kitware/vtk-js/master/Utilities/ParaView/export-scene-macro.py)