json2csv – Parse JSON files to CSV with data qualifier

The parser can read given folder with *.json files, filtering and qualifying input data with intent & stop words dictionaries and save results to CSV files by given chunk size.

Minimal dependency on other Go packages, but maximum performance even on large amounts of the input JSON data.

⚡️ Quick start

First, download and install Go. Version 1.20 (or higher) is required.

Installation is done by using the go install command:

go install github.com/koddr/json2csv@latest

💡 Note: See the repository's Release page, if you want to download a ready-made deb, rpm, apk or Arch Linux package.

GNU/Linux and macOS users available way to install via Homebrew:

# Tap a new formula:
brew tap koddr/tap

# Installation:
brew install koddr/tap/json2csv

Prepare folder with your data input in the *.json format, create JSON files with intents and filter.

💡 Note: See the repository's Wiki page to understand structures of JSON files and get general recommendations for preparing the input data.

Next, run json2csv parser with options:

json2csv \
  -json    /path/to/input/json/folder \
  -intents /path/to/intents-file.json \
  -filter  /path/to/filter-file.json \
  -output  /path/to/output/csv/folder \
  -content-field message \
  -min-word-len  5 \
  -chunk 1000

Done! 🎉 Output CSV file(s) has a default comma (,) separators between columns.

🐳 Docker-way to quick start

If you don't want to physically install json2csv to your system, you feel free to using our official Docker image and run it from isolated container:

docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:${PWD} -w ${PWD} koddr/json2csv:latest [OPTIONS]

🧩 Options

Option	Description	Is required?	Default value	Docs link
-json	set a path to the folder with JSON source file(s)	no	./json_files	Wiki
-intents	set a path to the file with intents	no	./intents.json	Wiki
-filter	set a path to the file with a filter	no	./filter.json	Wiki
-output	set a path to the output folder where the prepared CSV file(s) will be placed	no	./output_files	Wiki
-content-field	set a name of the content field (attribute that contains string to qualify and filter) in JSON source file(s)	no	content
-min-word-len	set a min word length count to filter input words (if a word is smaller than this option, it will be skipped)	no	0
-chunk	set a chunk size for one CSV file	no	5000

✨ Solving case

Imagine that you have many JSON files of the same type in a folder on your computer. The structure of each such file is identical and can be described in a single Go structure.

But your task is not only to turn these files into a structured CSV, but also to make some qualification of incoming data based on dictionaries with intent.

The output should be CSV files (with a specified number of lines in each), where the first column contains the original phrases from JSON files, and the second column will contain the associated intents after qualification.

This is what this Go package solves! ✌️

⚡️ More details about the case I solved are here.

⚠️ License

json2csv is free and open-source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, created and supported with 🩵 for people and robots by Vic Shóstak.