xleak brings Excel spreadsheets to your command line with beautiful rendering, powerful export capabilities, and a feature-rich interactive TUI.
No Microsoft Excel is required.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Core Functionality:
- Beautiful terminal rendering with formatted tables.
- Interactive TUI mode – full keyboard navigation with ratatui.
- Smart data type handling – numbers right-aligned, text left-aligned, booleans centered.
- Multi-sheet support – seamlessly navigate between sheets (Tab/Shift+Tab).
- Excel Table support – list and extract named tables (.xlsx only).
- Multiple export formats – CSV, JSON, plain text.
- Blazing fast – powered by calamine, the fastest Excel parser in Rust.
- Multiple file formats – supports .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .xlsb, .ods.
- Interactive TUI Features:
- Full-text search – search across all cells with /, navigate with n/N.
- Clipboard support – copy cells (c) or entire rows (C) to clipboard.
- Formula display – view Excel formulas in cell detail view (Enter key).
- Jump to row/column – press Ctrl+G to jump to any cell (e.g., A100, 500, 10,5).
- Large file optimization – lazy loading for files with 1000+ rows.
- Progress indicators – real-time feedback for long operations.
- Visual cell highlighting – current row, column, and cell clearly marked.
Website: github.com/bgreenwell/xleak
Support:
Developer: Ben Greenwell
License: MIT License
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