csv2json

Simple tool for converting CSVs to JSON

Installation

First install Go.

If you just want to install the binary to your current directory and don't care about the source code, run

GOBIN=$(pwd) GOPATH=$(mktemp -d) go get github.com/baltimore-sun-data/csv2json

Usage

$ csv2json
Usage of csv2json:
  -dest string
        Destination file (default: stdout)
  -no-headers
        Return each row as an array
  -src string
        Source file (default: stdin)

$ more test.csv
a,b,c
1,2,3

$ csv2json | json-tidy
[
        {
                "a": "1",
                "b": "2",
                "c": "3"
        }
]

$ csv2json -src test.csv -no-headers | json-tidy
[
        [
                "a",
                "b",
                "c"
        ],
        [
                "1",
                "2",
                "3"
        ]
]