Json2XLSX

Provide or pipe a JSON object to a new Excel XLSX file

Takes an object with one worksheet (tab) per key, and a 2d array or array of objects.
Updates an existing file if already created.

{
    "worksheet1": [
        [1,2,3],
        [4,5,6]
    ],

    "worksheet2": [
        {a: 1, b: 2},
        {a: 3, b: 4}
    ]
}

Write Excel

require('json2xlsx').write(filename, sheetname, [object]);    

or pipe..

$ echo '{"work1": [["TRUE",2,3], [4,5,6]], "work2": [{"a": 1, "b":2},{"a":3, "b": 4}]}'\
| node -e "require('./json2xlsx.js').write('file.xlsx')"

# update existing
$ echo '{"work3": [["TRUE",2,3], [4,5,6]], "work4": [{"a": 1, "b":2},{"a":3, "b": 4}]}'\
| node -e "require('./json2xlsx.js').write('file.xlsx')"

# show additional info about writing (set env variable)
$ debug=1 ...

Read Excel

require('json2xlsx').read('file.xlsx');  // JSON written to console/stdout
# or
$ node ./json2xlsx file.xlsx

Order JSON attributes (to have columns in order in Excel)

echo "..." | require('json2xlsx').write('name.xlsx', 'sheetname', null, ['first_col_name', 'second_col_name'])