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Node.js Tutorial to Generate Excel File From JSON Data Using xlsx Module in Terminal
Jun 7, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this uh live
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stream so in this tutorial I will show
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you how to generate a excel file inside
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NodeJS from JSON data so let me show you
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the script that I written right here so
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this is actually a very simple script
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which will generate a Microsoft Excel
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file from a set of JSON data json as you
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all know it's a set of JavaScript
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objects so we have this JSON object
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right here an array of object each
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object is having three properties name
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age and city and now we just the prime
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job of this script is to export this
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JSON data into an Excel file which will
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look something like this so you will see
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it has it will actually convert this
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JSON data into an Excel file uh let me
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just delete this and re rerun the script
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here
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so now the job is if I go to the
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terminal and just run the script here
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you would see it will export all this
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JSON data and then it will create a
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excel file so you will see your Excel
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file is generated and on the left hand
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side you will see your Excel file is
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generated you will see if I try to open
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this this will look something like
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this so all the
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three data has been successfully
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exported and for building this
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application we are actually using a very
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simple module inside NodeJS which is X
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selects so just search for this module
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and you just need to install this it's a
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sheet JS it is commonly know known as
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sheet JS library so the command is
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simple
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you first of all need to install
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this so after installing it now I will
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just write this code here so I've also
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given the full source code in the
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description of this video so first of
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all you need to require all the packages
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so for requiring this we
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simply use the require keyword and then
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require the module and then for building
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this we also require the file system
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module as well and after that we will be
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declaring actually the JSON data that
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needs to be converted so you just
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declare a
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variable which will be an array of
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object so as I already told you each
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object will
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have three properties name and then we
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also have age you can take any data of
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your
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choice this is one set of data one row
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of data which contains three properties
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here name age and city and
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similarly we can put a comma and then we
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can write another
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object
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similarly which we need to convert this
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so we can simply so this is three sets
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of data right here so now we just need
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to convert this into Excel file so we
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declared this after declaring it now we
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just need to convert this JSON to a
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worksheet so we declare a variable right
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here and this
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module you can see this XLS module right
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here it contains a function to
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actually first of all we need to create
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a worksheet right
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here it contains a util function and
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then it contains this function which is
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JSON JSON to sheet so we are using this
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method to convert the JSON into a
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worksheet so here we are providing the
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JSON data after that we need to create a
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new workbook for creating a new workbook
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we simply create use
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this which is book new so this will
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create a new book Excel workbook and
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then we just need to append the data for
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appending the data we use another method
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right here which is
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book_append
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sheet so this method will
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actually put the data inside the
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worksheet so we need to put uh we need
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to put this data that we declared which
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is the JSON
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data and we simply pass the workbook
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plus the worksheet that we are working
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on and then the you can give the name of
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the sheet so I will say sheet
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one so after doing that now we just need
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to download the Excel file so we can
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simply put the file name of the output
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file so we can say
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output.xls and then to save this we can
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simply call this function which is write
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file so this will actually save the
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excel
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file the workbook at that location
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output file
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so after that we can simply console log
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a simple statement that your data has
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been
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written so this is all the uh NodeJS
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script which is required to export this
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JSON data into an Excel file so if I try
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to execute
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this so now you will see if I go to the
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terminal just write node index.js output
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file created
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if
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I delete this once again execute this
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you will see again it will create this
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Excel file so this Excel file will be
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having this data right here we have
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three columns name age city so this is
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actually exporting all these objects so
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we can declare this JSON data right here
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so we have these three objects which is
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successfully exported to an Excel file
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so in this easy way you can export JSON
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into an Excel
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file so thank you very much for watching
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this video and I will be seeing you in
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the next one