Reads a csv file or data variable having a table and returns an array of obects. In which each object consists of all headers as keys and there data as values.

Installation

npm i --save csv-file-to-json

Usage

csv-file-to-json support CommonJS.

In module system

Use filePath key to provide CSV data from file.

const csvToJson = require("csv-file-to-json");
const dataInJSON = csvToJSON({ filePath: "./filePath.csv" });

Use data key to provide CSV data from variable or directly.

const csvToJSON = require("csv-file-to-json");
const dataInJSON = csvToJSON({ data: someCSVData });

Sample input (csv data) :

FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,NUMBER,EMAIL,ADDRESS
Debra,Burks,880012XXXX,[email protected],"9273 Thome Ave., `Orchard Park`, NY - 14127"
Kasha,Todd,null,[email protected],"910, Vine Street!!!, (Campbell), CA - 95008"
Tameka,Fisher,8800111XXX,null,"7693 ~ Honey Creek St., Redondo Beach, "CA"      90278"

Sample output (json data) :

[
  {
    FIRST_NAME: 'Debra',
    LAST_NAME: 'Burks',
    NUMBER: '880012XXXX',
    EMAIL: '[email protected]',
    ADDRESS: '9273 Thome Ave., `Orchard Park`, NY - 14127'
  },
  {
    FIRST_NAME: 'Kasha',
    LAST_NAME: 'Todd',
    NUMBER: null,
    EMAIL: '[email protected]',
    ADDRESS: '910, Vine Street!!!, (Campbell), CA - 95008'
  },
  {
    FIRST_NAME: 'Tameka',
    LAST_NAME: 'Fisher',
    NUMBER: '880111XXXX',
    EMAIL: null,
    ADDRESS: '7693 ~ Honey Creek St., Redondo Beach, "CA"      90278'
  }
]

Use separator key to specify your separator. Default separator is ",".

const dataInJSON = csvToJSON({ filePath: "./filePath.txt", separator: "," });

Use hasHeader key to specify if your file or data contains a header line or not. Default is true and first line of csv will be considered as header

const dataInJSON = csvToJSON({ filePath: "./filePath.txt", hasHeader: true });

Use headers key to specify your own headers.

const dataInJSON = csvToJSON({ filePath: "./filePath.txt", hasHeader: false, headers: ["FIRST_NAME", "LAST_NAME", "NUMBER", "EMAIL", "ADDRESS"] });

References

• To convert text and csv both to json. Try - https://www.npmjs.com/package/data-to-json
• To convert only txt data to json. Try - https://www.npmjs.com/package/txt-file-to-json