There are a few different libraries doing parsing of Excel files (.xlsx). I will list two projects I find interesting and worth looking into.
Node-xlsx
Excel parser and builder. It’s kind of a wrapper for a popular project JS-XLSX, which is a pure javascript implementation from the Office Open XML spec.
Example for parsing file
var xlsx = require('node-xlsx');
var obj = xlsx.parse(__dirname + '/myFile.xlsx'); // parses a file
var obj = xlsx.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/myFile.xlsx')); // parses a buffer
ExcelJS
Read, manipulate and write spreadsheet data and styles to XLSX and JSON. It’s an active project. At the time of writing the latest commit was 9 hours ago. I haven’t tested this myself, but the api looks extensive with a lot of possibilites.
Code example:
// read from a file
var workbook = new Excel.Workbook();
workbook.xlsx.readFile(filename)
.then(function() {
// use workbook
});
// pipe from stream
var workbook = new Excel.Workbook();
stream.pipe(workbook.xlsx.createInputStream());