How to parse/transform values such as epoch to datetime??

[CharlieTemplar]

Would be nice to transform epoch timestamps to human readable datetime.

eg 1628337947 = Saturday, 7 August 2021 12:05:47
=ImportJSON("https://github.com/bradjasper/ImportJSON/files/6950617/sample-null.json.txt","/results")

[Chaffy-0]

I added a new column next to the timestamps and used this formula where "A1" is the first timestamp in your results.
=(LEFT(A1,10)/86400)+DATE(1970,1,1)

[Thiago]

Hi there, I needed something and was researching for an answer.
Since I couldn't find one, what I thought was to use the transformFunc parameter available in ImportJSONAdvanced
and this is what I ended up with:

function _test() {
  var url = "https://github.com/bradjasper/ImportJSON/files/6950617/sample-null.json.txt";
  var query = "/results" ;
  var parseOptions = "allHeaders,epoch2date-2";

  var json = ImportJSONAdvanced(url, {}, query, parseOptions, includeXPath_, _myDataTransform);
  Logger.log(json);
}

function _myDataTransform(data, row, column, options) {
  defaultTransform_(data, row, column, options);

  // ignore the header
  if (row) {
    var optionsCol = hasOption2_(options, "epoch2date");

    // check if there's a column to be converted and the separator is there
    if (optionsCol > -1 && options[optionsCol].search("-")) {
      var valueCol = parseInt(options[optionsCol].split("-")[1]);

      // check if the current column is the same as the column informed to have the timestamp
      if (column == valueCol) {
        // transform the timestamp into a human readable string
        data[row][column] = new Date(parseInt(data[row][column])).toLocaleString();
      }
    }

  }

}

/** 
 * Returns the index if the given set of options contains the given option.
 * Returns false if the option is not found in the set.
 */
function hasOption2_(options, option) {
  return options.findIndex((opItem) => { return opItem.startsWith(option);}, option)
}

Not elegant, but allows me to use parseOptions to tell importJSON that I want to convert a epoch to a human readable format and instruct which column I want it to convert.
Hope it helps you or someone else looking for something like this.