xlsx2csv

xlsx to csv converter (http://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv)

Converts xlsx files to csv format. Handles large XLSX files. Fast and easy to use.

Tested(supported) python versions:

• 2.4
• 2.7
• 3.4 to 3.12

Installation:

sudo easy_install xlsx2csv

or

pip install xlsx2csv

Also, works standalone with only the xlsx2csv.py script

Usage:

 xlsx2csv.py [-h] [-v] [-a] [-c OUTPUTENCODING] [-s SHEETID]
                   [-n SHEETNAME] [-d DELIMITER] [-l LINETERMINATOR]
                   [-f DATEFORMAT] [--floatformat FLOATFORMAT]
                   [-i] [-e] [-p SHEETDELIMITER]
                   [--hyperlinks]
                   [-I INCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN [INCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN ...]]
                   [-E EXCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN [EXCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN ...]] [-m]
                   xlsxfile [outfile]

positional arguments:

  xlsxfile              xlsx file path, use '-' to read from STDIN
  outfile               output csv file path, or directory if -s 0 is specified

optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -a, --all             export all sheets
  -c OUTPUTENCODING, --outputencoding OUTPUTENCODING
                        encoding of output csv ** Python 3 only ** (default: utf-8)
  -s SHEETID, --sheet SHEETID
                        sheet number to convert, 0 for all
  -n SHEETNAME, --sheetname SHEETNAME
                        sheet name to convert
  -d DELIMITER, --delimiter DELIMITER
                        delimiter - columns delimiter in csv, 'tab' or 'x09'
                        for a tab (default: comma ',')
  -l LINETERMINATOR, --lineterminator LINETERMINATOR
                        line terminator - lines terminator in csv, '\n' '\r\n'
                        or '\r' (default: os.linesep)
  -f DATEFORMAT, --dateformat DATEFORMAT
                        override date/time format (ex. %Y/%m/%d)
  --floatformat FLOATFORMAT
                        override float format (ex. %.15f)
  -i, --ignoreempty     skip empty lines
  -e, --escape          Escape \r\n\t characters
  -p SHEETDELIMITER, --sheetdelimiter SHEETDELIMITER
                        sheet delimiter used to separate sheets, pass '' if
                        you do not need delimiter, or 'x07' or '\\f' for form
                        feed (default: '--------')
  -q QUOTING, --quoting QUOTING
                        field quoting, 'none' 'minimal' 'nonnumeric' or 'all' (default: 'minimal')
  --hyperlinks, --hyperlinks
                        include hyperlinks
  -I INCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN [INCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN ...], --include_sheet_pattern INCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN [INCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN ...]
                        only include sheets named matching given pattern, only
                        effects when -a option is enabled.
  -E EXCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN [EXCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN ...], --exclude_sheet_pattern EXCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN [EXCLUDE_SHEET_PATTERN ...]
                        exclude sheets named matching given pattern, only
                        effects when -a option is enabled.
  -m, --merge-cells     merge cells

Usage with folder containing multiple xlxs files:

    python xlsx2csv.py /path/to/input/dir /path/to/output/dir

will output each file in the input dir converted to .csv in the output dir. If omitting the output dir it will output the converted files in the input dir

Usage from within Python:

  from xlsx2csv import Xlsx2csv
  Xlsx2csv("myfile.xlsx", outputencoding="utf-8").convert("myfile.csv")

Expat SAX parser used for xml parsing.

See alternatives:

Bash: http://kirk.webfinish.com/?p=91

Python: http://github.com/staale/python-xlsx http://github.com/leegao/pyXLSX

Ruby: http://roo.rubyforge.org/

Java: http://poi.apache.org/

Meta

Dilshod Temirkhdojaev – tdilshod@gmail.com

Distributed under the MIT LICENSE. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/dilshod