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Creator here. I'm always running queries in Sequel Pro and pasting screenshots, or pasting the data into an excel spreadsheet and uploading that to slack for c

Creator here. I'm always running queries in Sequel Pro and pasting screenshots, or pasting the data into an excel spreadsheet and uploading that to slack for co-workers, because Slack doesn't have the ability to render tables. Yesterday, my screenshots weren't working at all when sharing them in slack, and I couldn't find a tool out there that could take tabular data and convert it to an easy to navigate table w/ an option to download as a CSV file, so I made my own. Let me know if you have any questions or comments!

martin_ 7y ago
Any chance of adding a placeholder text for each of the options so folks can see what the output looks like without obtaining a result-set themselves :)
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  Absolutely, the next build will have that.
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  An example has been added to the homepage to see what the output looks like!
tastroder 7y ago
If you find the time and mobile viewing is in scope, the site would benefit from an example on the homepage for us mobile users that don't have a table handy.
- bobbonew 7y ago
  Example, yes please!
  - dougbarrett 7y ago
    An example has been added!
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  An example has been added!
lucasverra 7y ago
i do not understand the use case but im not too much in contact with big ugly excels nor SQL. Is this for copying some poor visually formatted excel and have a clear view of it in your solution ?
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  I usually use Sequel Pro to run queries against a MySQL server, typically I'll take a quick screenshot and send it to co-workers, sometimes the screenshots fail, there is too much data in it to be useful, or they do need an excel spreadsheet which requires more steps than I would like. I built it as a quick tool so I can easily copy the output of the query, paste it in the textbox, and an HTML table is generated.
Flashtoo 7y ago
You might also be interested in JExcel: https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/v3/ https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/v3/ It can take tabular data, allows you to do some Excel-like editing on it and download as CSV. Might be a bit heavy for your purposes, but it is easy to use and extend.
foreigner 7y ago
Doesn't appear to be working for CSV? e.g.: https://dv.dbb1.dev/sheets/1a53b5aa-2b00-4f58-ad75-84a31dcde5e2 https://dv.dbb1.dev/sheets/1a53b5aa-2b00-4f58-ad75-84a31dcde...
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  Thank you for testing it out, it doesn't have support yet, but it will soon!
onion2k 7y ago
SheetJS has an open source library xlsx-js[1] that can parse most Excel files. You could use that combined with FileReader (the browser file API) to enable users to drop a spreadsheet file on the page instead of copying and pasting. It'd be a nice addition. [1] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx
- akx 7y ago
  +1. I'm using xlsx-js in the similar-ish tool I recently wrote: https://akx.github.io/d2d/ https://akx.github.io/d2d/
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  Thank you for the suggestion, I will look into the library!
AdieuToLogic 7y ago
It appears your tool does not support pipe-delimited data in the "data to table" choice. An example is: a|1 b|2 c|3 This is a pretty common data format and one which people whom use your tool may appreciate. HTH
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  Thank you for the feedback! Pipe and CSV are next on the list :)
iSnow 7y ago
Doesn't seem to work for the following CSV: date,x-numbers,y-numbers 2015-01-01,3,3 2016-01-01,2,3 2017-01-01,1,5 2018-01-01,3,8
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  CSV support is coming within the next day!
teekert 7y ago
Is it Pandas based? I'm a bioinformatician and many of my data work flows start with pandas.read_excel() and end with pandas.DataFrame().to_excel(). I had some serious issues with it but I have come to terms with it. Actually Excel is ok as a central project "database" (up to certain size of course), anyone can quickly fill in a lot or rows (the smart dragging, the macro's that take in other Excel files, drop-downs for categories that I later use in Pandas/Seaborn...) and programmatically dealing with it is not too bad (pandas for bulk stuff, openpyxl for very fine-grained control and even conditional formatting, which we use a lot, etc).
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  There isn't too much to the rendered document, it reads the text as TSV and breaks that out into rows and cells. I tried keeping it as simple as possible for now, the idea isn't to help analyze data, but be able to share data in a usable format easily.

martin_ 7y ago

Any chance of adding a placeholder text for each of the options so folks can see what the output looks like without obtaining a result-set themselves :)

dougbarrett 7y ago
Absolutely, the next build will have that.
dougbarrett 7y ago
An example has been added to the homepage to see what the output looks like!

tastroder 7y ago

If you find the time and mobile viewing is in scope, the site would benefit from an example on the homepage for us mobile users that don't have a table handy.

bobbonew 7y ago
Example, yes please!
- dougbarrett 7y ago
  An example has been added!
dougbarrett 7y ago
An example has been added!

lucasverra 7y ago

i do not understand the use case but im not too much in contact with big ugly excels nor SQL. Is this for copying some poor visually formatted excel and have a clear view of it in your solution ?

dougbarrett 7y ago
I usually use Sequel Pro to run queries against a MySQL server, typically I'll take a quick screenshot and send it to co-workers, sometimes the screenshots fail, there is too much data in it to be useful, or they do need an excel spreadsheet which requires more steps than I would like. I built it as a quick tool so I can easily copy the output of the query, paste it in the textbox, and an HTML table is generated.

Flashtoo 7y ago

You might also be interested in JExcel: https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/v3/ https://bossanova.uk/jexcel/v3/ It can take tabular data, allows you to do some Excel-like editing on it and download as CSV. Might be a bit heavy for your purposes, but it is easy to use and extend.

foreigner 7y ago

Doesn't appear to be working for CSV? e.g.: https://dv.dbb1.dev/sheets/1a53b5aa-2b00-4f58-ad75-84a31dcde5e2 https://dv.dbb1.dev/sheets/1a53b5aa-2b00-4f58-ad75-84a31dcde...

dougbarrett 7y ago
Thank you for testing it out, it doesn't have support yet, but it will soon!

onion2k 7y ago

SheetJS has an open source library xlsx-js[1] that can parse most Excel files. You could use that combined with FileReader (the browser file API) to enable users to drop a spreadsheet file on the page instead of copying and pasting. It'd be a nice addition. [1] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

akx 7y ago
+1. I'm using xlsx-js in the similar-ish tool I recently wrote: https://akx.github.io/d2d/ https://akx.github.io/d2d/
dougbarrett 7y ago
Thank you for the suggestion, I will look into the library!

AdieuToLogic 7y ago

It appears your tool does not support pipe-delimited data in the "data to table" choice. An example is: a|1 b|2 c|3 This is a pretty common data format and one which people whom use your tool may appreciate. HTH

dougbarrett 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Pipe and CSV are next on the list :)

iSnow 7y ago

Doesn't seem to work for the following CSV: date,x-numbers,y-numbers 2015-01-01,3,3 2016-01-01,2,3 2017-01-01,1,5 2018-01-01,3,8

dougbarrett 7y ago
CSV support is coming within the next day!

teekert 7y ago

Is it Pandas based? I'm a bioinformatician and many of my data work flows start with pandas.read_excel() and end with pandas.DataFrame().to_excel(). I had some serious issues with it but I have come to terms with it. Actually Excel is ok as a central project "database" (up to certain size of course), anyone can quickly fill in a lot or rows (the smart dragging, the macro's that take in other Excel files, drop-downs for categories that I later use in Pandas/Seaborn...) and programmatically dealing with it is not too bad (pandas for bulk stuff, openpyxl for very fine-grained control and even conditional formatting, which we use a lot, etc).

dougbarrett 7y ago
There isn't too much to the rendered document, it reads the text as TSV and breaks that out into rows and cells. I tried keeping it as simple as possible for now, the idea isn't to help analyze data, but be able to share data in a usable format easily.