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node-excel-libxl

libxl bindings for Node.js. libxl is a library for working with Excel files.

Installation

npm install excel-libxl

Running

For example you have simple app.js:

var libxl = require('excel-libxl')
  , book = libxl.createBook();

book.load('./my-excel-file.xls', function(err) {
  book.getSheet(0).setName('Sheet #1 new name');
  book.save('./my-excel-file.xls', function(err) {
    process.exit(0);
  });
});

If libxl.so is not located in one of the default library paths (e.g. /usr/lib) you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to start Node.js app correctly:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/libxl.so/" node app.js

API

You can open libxl documentation and use it now with following restrictions:

  • Instead of libxl namespace you use var libxl = require('excel-libxl') as namespace, so Book class is available as libxl.Book, etc.
  • All the enums are added to module, so you can find COLOR_GRAY40 at libxl.COLOR_GRAY40

Thus I have in plans to add some kind of Helper/BaseApi class, I also will generate documentation someday.

TODO

Disclaimer

The sharks of C++ may find my code awful. My apologies, guys. I'm only learning C++. And thus addon is expected to be serious one I won't transfer ownership. But I promise to merge all the helpful pull requests and react on issues fast.

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