[okfn-labs] Viewing CSV files in your Browser

Wed Dec 11 18:55:27 UTC 2013

There's a post up on the Labs blog I wanted to flag to folks about "Viewing
CSV files in your browser" (using DataPipes):

http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/12/05/view-csv-with-data-pipes.html

Here's an excerpt:

This post introduces one of the handiest features of Data
Pipes<http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/>
: *fast (pre) viewing of CSV files in your browser
<http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/html/>* (and you can share the result by
just copying a URL).

CSV files are frequently used for storing tabular
data<http://data.okfn.org/standards/csv/> and
are widely supported by spreadsheets and databases. However, you can’t
usually look at a CSV file in your browser - usually your browser will
automatically download a CSV file. And even if you *could* look at a CSV
file, it is not very pleasant to look
at<http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/csv/?url=https://raw.github.com/okfn/datapipes/master/test/data/gla.csv>
.

But using the Data Pipes html feature <http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/html/>,
you can turn an online CSV into a pretty HTML table in a few seconds. For
example, the CSV you’ve just seen would become this pretty
table<http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/csv/html/?url=https://raw.github.com/okfn/datapipes/master/test/data/gla.csv>
.

[And there's more including how to use other datapipes features like head
to only view part of a large CSV file or to grep for only certain parts!]

Regards,

Rufus
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