Excel to JSON

Transform excel file to JSON translating and/or mapping keys.

Requirements

NodeJS version 8 or later
NPM version 5 or later

Install

On project root folder, execute in command line (bash or cmd, etc):

$ sudo npm i -g ./

Note: On windows sudo not needed.

Usage

$ excel2json file.xls -d dict.json -m map_keys.json

file.xls - Excel file
dict.json - Translate key file
map_keys.json - Map key file

File example

Excel (excel.xlsx):

User Name	Age	Company	Role	id
Bill Gates	62	Microsoft	director	1

Dict (dict.json):

{
  "User Name": "user_name",
  "Age": "age",
  "Company": "company",
  "Role": "role",
  "id": "id"
}

Map (map.json):

{
  "User Name": "user.name",
  "Age": "user.age",
  "Company": "user.company.name",
  "Role": "user.company.role",
  "id": "id"
}

Runing: $ excel2json excel.xlsx -d dict.json Result:

 [
  {
    "user_name": "Bill Gates",
    "age": "62",
    "company": "Microsoft",
    "role": "director",
    "id": "1"
  }
]

Runing: $ excel2json excel.xlsx -m map.json Result:

[
  {
    "user": {
      "name": "Bill Gates",
      "age": "62",
      "company": {
        "name": "Microsoft",
        "role": "director"
      }
    },
    "id": "1"
  }
]

Runing $ excel2json excel.xlsx -k Result (dict.json):

{
  "User Name": "",
  "Age": "",
  "Company": "",
  "Role": "",
  "id": ""
}

Options

--createMap or -r
To create a json file to map the keys
--createDict or -k
To create a json file to translate the keys
--file or -f
Excel file
--dictFile or -d
Json file with key dictionary.
--mapFile or -m
Json file with key map.
--keysLine or -l
Line number (excel) of keys.
--help or -h
Show this usage guide.

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