Retrieving row data after filtering JQuery Datatables

Question

Seems like it should be easy but...

Does anyone know how to return the current rows from a filtered dataTable? The oTable.fnGetNodes() method returns

Answer 1

Better late than never but I was struggling with this myself. Here's what I came up with

$.fn.dataTableExt.oApi.fnGetVisibleData = function(){
    displayed = [];
    currentlyDisplayed = this.fnSettings().aiDisplay; //gets displayed rows by their int identifier
    for (index in currentlyDisplayed){
        displayed.push( this.fnGetData( currentlyDisplayed[index] ));
    }
    return displayed;

}