Can a search be created in suitescript and saved in Netsuite as a saved search?

you just need to give it a title/name and save in script. see documentation (1.0 and 2.0)

@ec I am looking at all the record type enums and I don't see one for search. What kind of record type would I save it as?

That’s not how it’s done. It is through the

search

module:

search.save()

But, make sure you set the

search.title

when creating via

search.create()