Converts json into csv with column titles and proper line endings. Can be used as a module and from the command line.
Deprecated: No time for maintenance - see issue #26
Install
$ npm install json2csv
Include the module and run
var json2csv = require('json2csv');
json2csv({data: someJSONData, fields: ['field1', 'field2', 'field3']}, function(err, csv) {
if (err) console.log(err);
console.log(csv);
});
- Uses proper line endings on various operating systems
- Handles double quotes
- Allows custom column selection
- Reads column selection from file
- Pretty writing to stdout
- Supports optional custom delimiters
- Not create CSV column title by passing hasCSVColumnTitle: false, into params.
- If field is not exist in object then the field value in CSV will be empty.
var json2csv = require('json2csv');
var json = [
{
"car": "Audi",
"price": 40000,
"color": "blue"
}, {
"car": "BMW",
"price": 35000,
"color": "black"
}, {
"car": "Porsche",
"price": 60000,
"color": "green"
}
];
json2csv({data: json, fields: ['car', 'price', 'color']}, function(err, csv) {
if (err) console.log(err);
fs.writeFile('file.csv', csv, function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('file saved');
});
});
The content of the "file.csv" should be
car, price, color
"Audi", 40000, "blue"
"BMW", 35000, "black"
"Porsche", 60000, "green"
Similarly to mongoexport you can choose which fields to export
json2csv({data: json, fields: ['car', 'color']}, function(err, csv) {
if (err) console.log(err);
console.log(csv);
});
Results in
car, color
"Audi", "blue"
"BMW", "black"
"Porsche", "green"
Use a custom delimiter to create tsv files. Add it as the value of the del property on the parameters:
json2csv({data: json, fields: ['car', 'price', 'color'], del: '\t'}, function(err, tsv) {
if (err) console.log(err);
console.log(tsv);
});
Will output:
car price color
"Audi" 10000 "blue"
"BMW" 15000 "red"
"Mercedes" 20000 "yellow"
"Porsche" 30000 "green"
If no delimiter is specified, the default ,
is used
You can choose custom column names for the exported file.
json2csv({data: json, fields: ['car', 'price'], fieldNames: ['Car Name', 'Price USD']}, function(err, csv) {
if (err) console.log(err);
console.log(csv);
});
Results in
"Car Name", "Price USD"
"Audi", "blue"
"BMW", "black"
"Porsche", "green"
json2csv
can also be called from the command line
Usage: json2csv [options]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-i, --input <input> Path and name of the incoming json file.
-o, --output [output] Path and name of the resulting csv file. Defaults to console.
-f, --fields <fields> Specify the fields to convert.
-l, --fieldList [list] Specify a file with a list of fields to include. One field per line.
-d, --delimiter [delim] Specify a delimiter other than the default comma to use.
-p, --pretty Use only when printing to console. Logs output in pretty tables.
An input file -i
and fields -f
are required. If no output -o
is specified the result is logged to the console.
Use -p
to show the result in a beautiful table inside the console.
$ json2csv -i input.json -f carModel,price,color
carModel,price,color
"Audi",10000,"blue"
"BMW",15000,"red"
"Mercedes",20000,"yellow"
"Porsche",30000,"green"
$ json2csv -i input.json -f carModel,price,color -p
$ json2csv -i input.json -f carModel,price,color -o out.csv
Content of out.csv
is
carModel,price,color
"Audi",10000,"blue"
"BMW",15000,"red"
"Mercedes",20000,"yellow"
"Porsche",30000,"green"
The file fieldList
contains
carModel
price
color
Use the following command with the -l
flag
$ json2csv -i input.json -l fieldList -o out.csv
Content of out.csv
is
carModel,price,color
"Audi",10000,"blue"
"BMW",15000,"red"
"Mercedes",20000,"yellow"
"Porsche",30000,"green"
$ json2csv -f price
[{"price":1000},{"price":2000}]
Hit Enter and afterwards CTRL + D to end reading from stdin. The terminal should show
price
1000
2000
Requires mocha, should and async.
Run
$ make test
or
$ npm test
Requires js-beautify.
Run
$ make format
or
$ npm run-script format
Install require packages for development run following command under json2csv dir.
Run
$ npm install
Could you please make sure code is formatted and test passed before submit Pull Requests?
See Testing and Formatting json2csv above.
Check out my other module json2csv-stream. It transforms an incoming
stream containing json
data into an outgoing csv
stream.
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