jsoncsv 2.0.5

a command tool easily convert json file to csv or xlsx

jsoncsv && mkexcel is a command tool to convert json file to csv/xlsx file.

It’s simple, and no need user to specify the keys. :)

Quick Start :

cat the raw.json to csv/xls on command line

cat raw.json |jsoncsv |mkexcel > output.csv
cat raw.json |jsoncsv |mkexcel -t xls > output.xls

just expand/restore the json

jsoncsv raw.json expand.json
jsoncsv -r expand.json raw.json
cat raw.json|jsoncsv |jsoncsv -r > raw2.json

mkexcel the expanded json (one layer)

mkexcel expand.json output.csv
mkexcel -t xls expand.json > output.csv

safe mod

cat raw.json|jsoncsv --safe|mkexcel > output.csv

jsoncsv --help
mkexcel --help

jsoncsv

use jsoncsv to expand json files to 1 layer json

like this：

echo '{"s":[1,2,{"w":1}]}'|jsoncsv
{"s.2.w": 1,"s.0": 1,"s.1": 2}

-e, –expand

expand json, 展开 json

jsoncsv -e raw.json expand.json
cat raw.json expand.json
{"s":[1,2,{"w":1}]}
{"s.2.w": 1,"s.0": 1,"s.1": 2}

{“s”:[1,2,{“w”:1}]} transformed to {“s.2.w”: 1,”s.0”: 1,”s.1”: 2}

expand.json is only one layer json, it can be easy change to csv or xlsx

-r,–restore

restore the expanded json 重构被展开的json

jsoncsv -r expand.json raw.json
cat expand.json raw.json
{"s.2.w": 1,"s.0": 1,"s.1": 2}
{"s": [1, 2, {"w": 1}]}

{“s.2.w”: 1,”s.0”: 1,”s.1”: 2} change to {“s”:[1,2,{“w”:1}]}

-s,–separator

separator used for combine the keys in the tree

default separator is .

–safe

on safe mode, use escape separator to avoid confilct

expand:

[‘aa’, ‘bb’, ‘www.xxx.com’] –> ‘aa.bb.www.xxx.com’

restore:

‘aa.bb.www.xxx.com’ –> [‘aa’, ‘bb’, ‘www.xxx.com’]

mkexcel

dump expanded (by jsoncsv) json file to csv or xls file

mkexcel expand.json -o output.csv
cat expand.json|mkexcel > output.csv
cat expand.json|mkexcel -t xls > output.xls

-t,–type

chose dump type in [‘csv’, ‘xls’]

cat expand.json|mkexcel -t csv > output.csv
cat expand.json|mkexcel -t xls > output.xls

NOTE/TODO

1. key can’t be all intenger string

example:

echo '{"0":1,"1":[1,2]}'|jsoncsv -e| jsoncsv -r
[1, [1, 2]]

2. csv separator and clean mkexcel args

wait next version