SheetJS/sheetjs on Hacker News

…for 10 years (celebrating our 10 year birthday this week!), and our eponymous open source project https://github.com/sheetjs/sheetjs is used by companies large and small. It's not a particularly glamorous subject and doesn't tend to…

comment by sheetjs · 2022-12-04 · in The World Cup of Microsoft Excel

…For example with this maintainer [1] refusing to adopt 2FA, the score should reflect that. [1] https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs/issues/2667

comment by mdmglr · 2022-06-01 · in Site Trustworthiness API

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SheetJS: Why the move away from NPM registry?

story by jupp0r · 2022-06-01 · 0 comments

The real reason seems to be: https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs/issues/2667#issuecomment-... (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220510110516/https://github.co... ) >Due to ongoing legal matters between SheetJS LLC and npm, Inc.…

comment by Arnavion · 2022-06-01 · in Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA

Just use sheetjs https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs

comment by wsdookadr · 2022-05-18 · in How to Replace Excel?

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Why the move away from NPM registry? · Issue #2667 · SheetJS/sheetjs

story by lightlyused · 2022-05-05 · 0 comments

https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs/blob/master/xlsx.js with its 24500 LOC, the author is cool

comment by 11235813213455 · 2022-04-03 · in A project with a single 11,000-line code file

Maybe a story from a maintainer would help. To contextualize, the main SheetJS open source project https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs has over 28K stars. tl;dr: the project involves "crowdsourced research" which benefits from popularity.…

comment by sheetjs · 2021-11-12 · in Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021

…to CSV. Over the years, that grew into one of the most popular open source libraries on npm/github: https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs Back in 2015, 'patio11 reached out to us. In addition to a structured license purchase, he gave great…

comment by sheetjs · 2021-08-01 · in My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry

…to drop a spreadsheet file on the page instead of copying and pasting. It'd be a nice addition. [1] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

comment by onion2k · 2019-10-24 · in Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a 'pretty' table

…we ( https://sheetjs.com/ ) offer that as one of our paid builds. In conjunction with our JS parser https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx , you can modify cell values / formulae and recalculate the workbook (or individual expressions) in the…

comment by sheetjs · 2019-09-18 · in Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

…GitHub project by adding https://2fb.me/ in front of a URL. You can see it in action https://2fb.me/https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx This is my solo project. It hasn't really taken off to date but who knows. If you find it useful for…

comment by egfx · 2019-09-15 · in How Do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?

…means you don't have to invest much in social efforts. For example, our major open source project ( https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx , currently at 17K stars) started as a solo project, and most of the "growth" was driven by the…

comment by sheetjs · 2019-09-15 · in How Do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?

We ( https://sheetjs.com ) maintain some reasonably popular projects (our most popular, https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/ , has over 15K stars and sees millions of downloads per month). It's important to remember why you are involved in…

comment by sheetjs · 2019-05-17 · in The struggles of an open source maintainer

We ( https://sheetjs.com/ ) started from a series of open source projects (our largest https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx has more than 15K stars) and offer a slew of related solutions, including more advanced builds of our open source…

comment by sheetjs · 2019-03-26 · in Handsontable drops open source for a non-commercial license

…into this problem years ago as part of our spreadsheet parser/writer library (open source version https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx ) and ultimately opted for lower-level functions that act on Buffers/ArrayBuffers/Arrays.…

comment by sheetjs · 2019-03-18 · in Construct-JS – A library for creating byte level data structures

We have something similar: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.... In our case, the root problem is twofold: developers in other related projects have been less-than-circumspect in code contributions, and thanks to…

comment by sheetjs · 2019-02-09 · in Scala.js contribution disclaimer

Reminds me a bit of https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

comment by niix · 2019-01-28 · in Show HN: X-spreadsheet – A JavaScript canvas spreadsheet for web

…in the part 1 PDF) PS: We build and maintain parsers and writers for spreadsheets in JavaScript ( https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/ is our most popular project), including a CLI script to convert files to CSV. Some of our users use JSC…

comment by sheetjs · 2018-11-12 · in Parsing Excel Spreadsheets with Swift's Codable Protocols

…of the art, then you might be able to succeed. We ( https://sheetjs.com , our most popular library https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx has over 11K GitHub stars) combat that by intentionally removing our names and egos from the equation. We…

comment by sheetjs · 2018-08-22 · in Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow

…) are attacking the file compatibility problem (our major open source project is https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx , used in stencila's spreadsheet converters) and it is painfully obvious that OO/LO cuts corners at certain places. For exa

comment by sheetjs · 2018-07-14 · in Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research

…a plan. P.S.: we ( https://sheetjs.com/ ) build and maintain open source projects (our largest is https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx ) and we turn down donations precisely because many people expect something in return. Instead, we offer…

comment by sheetjs · 2018-06-10 · in On paying for software

…to put more time and energy into a project. (full disclosure: our largest open source project https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/ has over 10K stars and the perceived popularity certainly is surprising for a seemingly niche project)

comment by sheetjs · 2018-06-07 · in Ask HN: What do GitHub stars mean to you when evaluating a project, if anything?

https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx is a solid choice for that kind of thing.

comment by chrisweekly · 2018-04-11 · in List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.

…even give you a token of appreciation. Anecdote: A few of our open source projects (our largest is https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx ) have web-based demos ( http://oss.sheetjs.com/ ) which some people have copied, stripped license and…

comment by sheetjs · 2017-12-22 · in Show HN: One year devoted to open source and I've almost made $2 – horrraaaaay

…worth it. Anecdote: We have released code under the Apache 2 License (our biggest project by far is https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx ) and we've been roped into negotiations because some companies tried to take shortcuts by copying our…

comment by sheetjs · 2017-12-06 · in Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code

> People _pay_. From our experience ( http://sheetjs.com/ , our major open source library is https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx ), even with multinational corporations, they move heaven and earth to find another free solution, or spend…

comment by sheetjs · 2017-11-23 · in Why we never thank open source maintainers

…up in business software after one of our open source libraries to read and write spreadsheets ( https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx , demo http://oss.sheetjs.com/ ) ended up garnering lots of demand from businesses looking to build those…

comment by sheetjs · 2017-11-22 · in Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs

I went looking for a simple parser example. Sheetjs's "complete" implementation is 18k loc: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/blob/master/xlsx.js But at least the work has been done for me. A rather more manageable read can be found at…

comment by rattray · 2017-10-10 · in Dangers of CSV Injection

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Js-xlsx: An in-browser spreadsheet parser and writer

story by stuartaxelowen · 2017-08-18 · 0 comments

We build open source tools for processing spreadsheet data ( https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx is our largest and most popular open source project). Our open source tools have been used by government agencies, S&P 500/Dow companies, and…

comment by sheetjs · 2017-07-30 · in Ask HN: Have you regretted making something open-source?

…devising clever solutions. We build tools that read and write Excel files (open source library: https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx ) There are plenty of very difficult problems involving ill-specified aspects of the various file formats…

comment by sheetjs · 2017-04-28 · in How to talk about yourself in a developer interview

…like this[0] might be a useful addition, so users won't need to export as a specific format. [0] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

comment by space_ghost · 2017-01-18 · in Show HN: ExcelJSON – Convert JSON To/from CSV, TSV Easily

…powers the zip/unzip of js-xlsx[1], but not js-xlsx itself! [0] https://github.com/Stuk/jszip [1] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

comment by stu_k · 2015-05-06 · in Racking Mac Pros

…will encounter is that most programs (Numbers, Google Docs) do not support XLSB. Shameless plug: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx supports both XLSX and XLSB (AFAICT the only liberally licensed project that handles the format)

comment by sheetjs · 2014-10-10 · in Excel.vim

…(disclaimer: I built this as part of the in-browser XLS parser https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls )

comment by sheetjs · 2014-10-10 · in Excel.vim

…but will work in 2007+ The mapping for new function names is defined in section 2.2.3 of [MS-XLSX] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls/blob/master/bits/69_formta...

comment by sheetjs · 2014-08-05 · in Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet

Shameless plug: we are working on a javascript solution. XLSX/XLSM/XLSB reader/writer: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx XLS(BIFF8)/XML(2003-4) reader: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls In-browser reader demo: http://oss.sheetjs.com/…

comment by sheetjs · 2014-06-26 · in Open-source Libraries for Working with Open XML Documents (docx, xlsx, pptx)

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Read Excel files in JavaScript

story by clxl · 2014-04-30 · 0 comments

Stringing this together with other libraries like http://github.com/warpech/jquery-handsontable and http://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx and http://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls could lead to a better web spreadsheet. EDIT: someone already…

comment by clxl · 2014-04-24 · in Excel formulas in JavaScript

Another useful tool for working with spreadsheets in Javascript is SheetJS: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

comment by pie · 2014-04-22 · in NPR open-sources Copytext, a library for handling spreadsheets as Python objects

…browser (Excel 2007+ files are zip files that contain XML or binary files in specific locations): https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx JSZip works well for small files, but unzipping XLSB files larger than 50M seem to cause out of memory…

comment by sheetjs · 2014-04-20 · in JSZip: Create, read and edit .zip files with JavaScript

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XLS Parser in JavaScript

story by thepose · 2014-04-18 · 0 comments

…) we found and reported bugs in OO, Apache POI, roo, xlrd and other parsers https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls and https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx are the parsers underlying this.

comment by sheetjs · 2014-03-13 · in Ask PG: Is this what you meant by "web-based Excel/database hybrid"?

…https://github.com/SheetJS/SheetJS.github.io/blob/master/CNA... The gh-pages branch for js-xls ( https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls/tree/gh-pages ), accessible at http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls , now redirects to…

comment by sheetjs · 2014-01-07 · in Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

The reason I brought https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls to python is precisely because xlrd couldn't handle many of my XLS files

comment by sheetjs · 2013-12-28 · in Running your JS code in Python

…this. For anyone else looking for the code as I was, it's here: https://github.com/SheetJS https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls

comment by davidbanham · 2013-11-12 · in Pure JS in-browser Excel file parser

…comprehensive list): https://github.com/tealeg/xlsx (go, xlsx read) https://poi.apache.org/ (java) https://github.com/Niggler/js-xlsx (javascript, xlsx read) https://github.com/Niggler/js-xls (javascript, xls read)…

comment by nonchalance · 2013-10-12 · in Why Microsoft Word must die

…the file in your browser. Best results on chrome): http://niggler.github.com/js-xlsx/ source: https://github.com/Niggler/js-xlsx There's an XLS version as well (doesn't support the full panoply of features):…

comment by niggler · 2013-02-27 · in Permanent - the new spreadsheet for iPad

…using the OS). For example, in the `xlsx` module: "bin": { "xlsx2csv": "./bin/xlsx2csv.njs" }, https://github.com/Niggler/js-xlsx/blob/master/package.json#... Relevant doc: https://npmjs.org/doc/json.html#bin

comment by niggler · 2013-02-18 · in Show HN: Command line task management tool (Weekend Project)