Excel to JSON Converter

A minimal API that converts MS Excel (.xls & .xlsx) files, or from a given URL into JSON files.

Features

• Download as package using pip and use in your code.

• Supports both type of MS Excel file formats

  • MS Excel 2003 (.xls)
  • MS Excel 2007 (.xlsx)

• It also comes with command line interface (CLI) which facilitates the conversion from URL or local MS Excel file to JSON files.

  Example:

  • GET file from URL & convert to JSON.

  excel2json-3 --urls https://example.com/example.xls
  

  • GET file from disk & convert to JSON.

  excel2json-3 --file /home/ubuntu/Documents/example.xlsx
  

Contribution

You can contribute in following ways:

• Report bugs
• Add more "APIs"
• Give suggestions to make it better
• Fix issues & submit a pull request

Installation

Using pipenv (Recommended)

pipenv install excel2json-3

Using pip

pip install excel2json-3

Uses

Convert MS Excel File to JSON file

from excel2json import convert_from_file


EXCEL_FILE = '../example.xls'  # or '../example.xlsx'
convert(EXCEL_FILE)

Convert to JSON file directly from URL

from excel2json import convert_from_url


EXCEL_FILE_URL = 'https://www.example.com/example.xlsx'
convert(EXCEL_FILE_URL)

DEVELOPEMENT

Pre-requisites

1. Python 3

Create Virtual Enviroment

Using pipenv (Recommended)

1. Install pipenv

   pip install pipenv
   

2. Create env

   cd excel2json-3  # cd <repo_dir>
   pipenv --three install
   

3. Activate env

   pipenv shell
   

4. Install requirements from Pipefile

   pipenv sync
   

Using virtualenv

1. Install virtualenv

   pip install virtualenv
   

2. Create virtualenv

   mkdir myvenv
   cd myvenv
   virtualenv myvenv
   

3. Activate myvenv venv

   source myvenv/bin/activate
   
   or 
   
   . myvenv/bin/activate
   

4. Install from requirements.txt

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Testing

```
pytest tests/test.py
```