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xlsx-extract
-- extracts data from XLSX files with low memory footprint
xlsx-files can get pretty large, so nodejs & full featured xlsx-modules often reach memory limits or just use more than is needed for that task.
(--max-old-space-size & --stack_size can't help you all the time either)
hence these magnificent features:
- filestreams are piped & xml is parsed with sax parser
node-expat
- get rows/cells each by callback or write them to a .tsv or .json file
- empty lines at the end of the file are ignored
Convenience API
var XLSX = require('xlsx-extract').XLSX;
//dump by row
new XLSX().extract('path/to/file.xlsx', {sheet_nr:1})
.on('row', function (row) {
console.log(row); //row is a array of values or []
})
.on('cell', function (cell) {
console.log(cell); //cell is a value or null
})
.on('error', function (err) {
console.error(err);
})
.on('end', function (err) {
console.log('eof');
});
//dump by row in tsv-format
new XLSX().extract('path/to/file.xlsx', {sheet_nr:1, format:'tsv'})
.on('row', function (row) {
console.log(row); //row is a tsv line
})
.on('cell', function (cell) {
console.log(cell); //cell is a tsv value
})
.on('error', function (err) {
console.error(err);
})
.on('end', function (err) {
console.log('eof');
});
//convert to tsv-file
new XLSX().convert('path/to/file.xlsx', 'path/to/destfile.tsv')
.on('error', function (err) {
console.error(err);
})
.on('end', function () {
console.log('written');
})
//convert to json-file
new XLSX().convert('path/to/file.xlsx', 'path/to/destfile.json')
.on('error', function (err) {
console.error(err);
})
.on('end', function () {
console.log('written');
})
demo_options = {
sheet_nr: 1, // default 1 - the number of the sheet starting on 1
ignore_header: 0, // default 0 - the number of header lines to ignore
include_empty_rows: false, // default false - include empty rows in the middle/at start
date1904: false, // default false - use date 1904 conversion
tsv_float_comma: false // default false - use "," als decimal point for floats
format: '', // default array - convert to 'array'||'json'||'tsv'||'obj'
raw_values: false, // default false - do not apply cell formats (get values as string as in xlsx)
convert_values: { // apply cell number formats or not
ints: true, // rounds to int if number format is for int
floats: true, // rounds floats according to float number format
dates: true, // converts xlsx date to js date
bools: true // converts xlsx bool to js boolean
}
};
TODO
- better error handling
- more testing
- publish to npm
- docu for command-line tool xlsxe
- docu for XLSX.utils
- docu for formats callback