A quick and dirty Node.js script to dump QlikSense variables out to a file.

dumpVariables.js

/*
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
| A node.js script to write your app variables to file
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|  
|
*/

const serializeapp = require('serializeapp');
const enigma       = require('enigma.js');
const WebSocket    = require('ws');
const fs           = require('fs');

/*
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|  USER CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|   
| Update with the path to your QVF.
*/

  var settings  = {filePath: 'C:\\Users\\george\\Documents\\Qlik\\Sense\\Apps\\'
                  ,qvf     : 'TitanicDiscovery'};

/*
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Initialise Enigma
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Initialise Enigma, serialze app, then save only the variables to
|  file.
|
*/


enigma.getService('qix', {
    schema: require('./node_modules/enigma.js/schemas/qix/3.2/schema.json'),
    session: {
        host: 'localhost',
        port: 4848,
        secure: false
    },
    createSocket: (url) => new WebSocket(url)
})

    .then(qix    => qix.global.openDoc(settings.qvf+'.qvf'))  //TitanicDiscovery
    .then(app    => serializeapp(app))
    .then(result => update(result.variables, function(r){
          console.log(r);
          process.exit(-1)
        })
    );


/*
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|  Update File
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|  A basic function using the filesystem library to write the
|  data to file.
|
*/

var update = function(data, callback){
  
  //loop through the data to pull out the variables and thier values
  text = 'Name, Value \n';
  for(i=0; i < data.length; i++){
         text += data[i].qName;
         text += ', ';
         text += '"' + data[i].qDefinition + '"\n';
       }

  fs.writeFile(
                settings.filePath + settings.qvf + '.csv' //save the new file
                , text
                , function(err) {
                  if(err) {
                    return console.log(err);
                  }

                 response = {message: 'The file was written successfully.', success: true};
                 callback(response);
                 });
}