Export JSON Data: CSV, TSV, Excel, and Clipboard
Compare strategies for exporting JSON data to CSV, TSV, clipboard, and Excel. Includes delimiter choice, quoting rules, and BOM handling.
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Export JSON Data: CSV, TSV, Excel, and Clipboard Strategies Explained When you have JSON data and need to get it out of your application — into a spreadsheet, another tool, or a teammate's hands — there are four main paths: CSV, TSV, Excel, and clipboard. Each has tradeoffs. This post covers when to use each, the browser Blob API for downloads, and the quoting rules that make the difference between a file that opens cleanly and one that corrupts silently. --- The Four Export Formats CSV — Universal but fragile with certain data Comma-separated values is the lowest common denominator. Excel, Google Sheets, pandas, and every database import tool accepts it. The fragility: commas appear in data (addresses, descriptions, numbers in some locales). When they do, you must quote fields — and…
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