Making CSV files available through a URL

  • braetelliot

    (@braetelliot)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I would like to upload a csv file to them so as to be able to see it as a url.For example if my domain is http://www.example.com if I type the address http://www.example.com/file.csv to show me the contents of my file, instead of prompting a download

    Any ideas how I will be able to make my csv file as a url to my domain? Thanks!

    P.S. would also need to have the file converted to a pipe delimited file. Any advice on that would be great!

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • linux4me2

    (@linux4me2)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Why not just change the extension from .csv to .txt?

    A .csv file is just a text file, so it should work. Most browsers will open a .txt file rather than prompting for a download.

    By converting to pipe-delimited, do you mean changing all the commas to pipes, or changing the line feeds to pipes?

    Either way, you can use a text editor to do a find-and-replace to accomplish that if you’re just doing a few files. Your spreadsheet or database program may also allow you to substitute the column or line feed separator to a pipe before exporting the file, as well.

    You might also want to google for “convert csv to html” to see all the options for converting the file to an HTML table.

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