CSV To Markdown Table

Simple JavaScript CSV to Markdown Table Converter

You can see it in action and play with the Live Example.

Requires no external libraries. Works in Node as well as in the browser.

Install

npm install csv-to-markdown-table

Usage

CLI

This package also includes a CLI tool. You can install it globally with:

npm install -g csv-to-markdown-table

Then you can use it like so:

$ csv-to-markdown-table --help
Usage: csv-to-markdown-table [options]
// … help output

$ csv-to-markdown-table --delimiter ',' --headers < example.csv
| cats | dogs | fish | 
|------|------|------| 
| 1    | 2    | 3    | 
| 4    | 5    | 6    |
$ csv-to-markdown-table
Reading from stdin... (press Ctrl+D at the start of a line to finish)
CSV Delimiter: \t (tab) Headers: false
[interactive input]

Raw JS via Global

console.log(
  csvToMarkdown( "header1,header2,header3\nValue1,Value2,Value3", ",", true)
);

Node / npm

const csvToMarkdown = require("csv-to-markdown-table");

console.log(
	csvToMarkdown("header1,header2,header3\nValue1,Value2,Value3", ",", true)
);

TypeScript

import csvToMarkdown from "csv-to-markdown-table";

console.log(
  csvToMarkdown("header1,header2,header3\nValue1,Value2,Value3", ",", true)
);

Outputs:

| header1 | header2 | header3 | 
|---------|---------|---------| 
| Value1  | Value2  | Value3  | 

Which displays in markdown as: