Convert CSV to Fixed Width using an API

Use our API to convert your CSV data to Fixed Width/Fixed Length

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POST https://dataconverter.io/api/v1/convert/csv-to-fixed-width

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Headers

Authorization (required) Bearer <<YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE>>

Request Body — (multipart/form-data)

file (required) string <binary>

uploadSettings

object

{
  "fieldSeparator" : ",",
  "allowMultiLineText" : true,
  "allowQuoteInField" : false,
  "fieldNamesInFirstRow" : true,
  "startingQuote" : "\"",
  "endingQuote" : "\"",
  "lineSeparators" : "\\n,\\r\\n,\\r",
  "trimFields" : true,
  "skipEmptyRows" : false,
  "charset" : "UTF-8"
}

downloadSettings

object

{
  "fields" : [ {
    "name" : "title",
    "width" : 12,
    "fillChar" : null,
    "skip" : false,
    "align" : "LEFT"
  }, {
    "name" : "name",
    "width" : 4,
    "fillChar" : null,
    "skip" : false,
    "align" : "LEFT"
  }, {
    "name" : "price",
    "width" : 5,
    "fillChar" : null,
    "skip" : false,
    "align" : "LEFT"
  } ]
}

Request Sample


curl -X POST "https://dataconverter.io/api/v1/convert/csv-to-fixed-width" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" \
-F "file=@data.csv;type=text/csv" \
-F "uploadSettings={\"fieldSeparator\":\",\",\"allowMultiLineText\":true,\"allowQuoteInField\":false,\"fieldNamesInFirstRow\":true,\"startingQuote\":\"\\\"\",\"endingQuote\":\"\\\"\",\"lineSeparators\":\"\\\\n,\\\\r\\\\n,\\\\r\",\"trimFields\":true,\"skipEmptyRows\":false,\"charset\":\"UTF-8\"};type=application/json" \
-F "downloadSettings={\"fields\":[{\"name\":\"title\",\"width\":12,\"fillChar\":null,\"skip\":false,\"align\":\"LEFT\"},{\"name\":\"name\",\"width\":4,\"fillChar\":null,\"skip\":false,\"align\":\"LEFT\"},{\"name\":\"price\",\"width\":5,\"fillChar\":null,\"skip\":false,\"align\":\"LEFT\"}]};type=application/json" \
--output converted.txt

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