diff --git a/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/meta.yml b/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/meta.yml
index f3fb403e84c..7494b0ed773 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/meta.yml
+++ b/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/meta.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ output:
       description: File containing software versions
       pattern: "versions.yml"
   - prefix:
-      type: path
+      type: directory
       description: A directory containing the dataset files needed for nextclade run
       pattern: "prefix"
 authors:
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/tests/main.nf.test b/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/tests/main.nf.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b0d80135999
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/tests/main.nf.test
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+
+nextflow_process {
+
+    name "Test Process NEXTCLADE_DATASETGET"
+    script "../main.nf"
+    process "NEXTCLADE_DATASETGET"
+
+    tag "modules"
+    tag "modules_nfcore"
+    tag "nextclade"
+    tag "nextclade/datasetget"
+
+    test("species-id-time") {
+        
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+                input[0] = 'sars-cov-2'
+				input[1] = 'MN908947'
+				input[2] = '2022-01-18T12:00:00Z'
+
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(process.out).match() }
+            )
+        }
+    }
+    
+}
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/tests/main.nf.test.snap b/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/tests/main.nf.test.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..02ab3e9ece2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/tests/main.nf.test.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{
+    "test-nextclade-datasetget": {
+        "content": [
+            {
+                "0": [
+                    [
+                        "genemap.gff:md5,21ebebfd0f416eeb959e55ebffd808e8",
+                        "primers.csv:md5,5990c3483bf66ce607aeb90a44e7ef2e",
+                        "qc.json:md5,c512f51fda0212b21ffff05779180963",
+                        "reference.fasta:md5,c7ce05f28e4ec0322c96f24e064ef55c",
+                        "sequences.fasta:md5,41129d255b99e0e92bdf20e866b99a1b",
+                        "tag.json:md5,402ac2b87e2a6a64a3fbf5ad16497af3",
+                        "tree.json:md5,b8f32f547ff9e2131d6fc66b68fc54b1",
+                        "virus_properties.json:md5,5f2de3949e07cb633f3d9e4a7654dc81"
+                    ]
+                ],
+                "1": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,12e8751f1d841b9aee87d31206c102a7"
+                ],
+                "dataset": [
+                    [
+                        "genemap.gff:md5,21ebebfd0f416eeb959e55ebffd808e8",
+                        "primers.csv:md5,5990c3483bf66ce607aeb90a44e7ef2e",
+                        "qc.json:md5,c512f51fda0212b21ffff05779180963",
+                        "reference.fasta:md5,c7ce05f28e4ec0322c96f24e064ef55c",
+                        "sequences.fasta:md5,41129d255b99e0e92bdf20e866b99a1b",
+                        "tag.json:md5,402ac2b87e2a6a64a3fbf5ad16497af3",
+                        "tree.json:md5,b8f32f547ff9e2131d6fc66b68fc54b1",
+                        "virus_properties.json:md5,5f2de3949e07cb633f3d9e4a7654dc81"
+                    ]
+                ],
+                "versions": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,12e8751f1d841b9aee87d31206c102a7"
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.8.4",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-08-23T11:33:31.41372"
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index f320d6b94eb..aea25fc32ad 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -974,9 +974,6 @@ ncbigenomedownload:
 ncbitools/vecscreen:
   - modules/nf-core/ncbitools/vecscreen/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/ncbitools/vecscreen/**
-nextclade/datasetget:
-  - modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/**
-  - tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/**
 nextclade/run:
   - modules/nf-core/nextclade/run/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/run/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/main.nf b/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/main.nf
deleted file mode 100644
index 5935f8bbaaf..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/main.nf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
-
-nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
-
-include { NEXTCLADE_DATASETGET } from '../../../../../modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/main.nf'
-
-workflow test_nextclade_datasetget {
-
-    dataset = 'sars-cov-2'
-    reference = 'MN908947'
-    tag = '2022-01-18T12:00:00Z'
-
-    NEXTCLADE_DATASETGET ( dataset, reference, tag )
-
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/nextflow.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 50f50a7a357..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/nextflow.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-process {
-
-    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
-    
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/test.yml b/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/test.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9639700e1b3..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/test.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-- name: nextclade datasetget
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget -entry test_nextclade_datasetget -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/nf-core/nextclade/datasetget/nextflow.config
-  tags:
-    - nextclade
-    - nextclade/datasetget
-  files:
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/genemap.gff
-      md5sum: 21ebebfd0f416eeb959e55ebffd808e8
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/primers.csv
-      md5sum: 5990c3483bf66ce607aeb90a44e7ef2e
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/qc.json
-      md5sum: c512f51fda0212b21ffff05779180963
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/reference.fasta
-      md5sum: c7ce05f28e4ec0322c96f24e064ef55c
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/sequences.fasta
-      md5sum: 41129d255b99e0e92bdf20e866b99a1b
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/tag.json
-      md5sum: 402ac2b87e2a6a64a3fbf5ad16497af3
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/tree.json
-      md5sum: b8f32f547ff9e2131d6fc66b68fc54b1
-    - path: output/nextclade/sars-cov-2/virus_properties.json
-      md5sum: 5f2de3949e07cb633f3d9e4a7654dc81