Merge pull request #308 from varunKT001/json-to-excel

Added JSON to Excel converter

scripts/json-to-excel/README.md

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+# JSON to Excel converter
+
+This is a simple Python script to convert a JSON file to an Excel file.
+
+## Usage
+
+```bash
+# install xlwt
+pip install xlwt
+
+# run script
+python main.py <JSON_FILE_PATH>
+```

scripts/json-to-excel/main.py

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+import json
+import xlwt
+import sys
+import os
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+if sys.argv[1] == "help":
+  print("Usage:\n\tjsonToExcel.py json_file.json")
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+if not os.path.exists(sys.argv[1]):
+  print("Cannot open " + sys.argv[1])
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+file_name = sys.argv[1]
+file_extenstion = file_name.split(".")[-1]
+
+if not file_extenstion in ("json"):
+  print("The extension of JSON file is incorrect")
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+file = open(file_name)
+json_text = file.read()
+
+try:
+  imported_json = defaultdict(json.loads(json_text))
+except:
+  print("The content of the JSON file is incorrect")
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+workbook = xlwt.Workbook()
+worksheet = workbook.add_sheet("json exported")
+
+columns = list(imported_json[0].keys())
+
+i = 0
+for column in columns:
+  worksheet.write(0, i, column)
+  i += 1
+
+j = 1
+for row in imported_json:
+  i = 0
+  for column in columns:
+    worksheet.write(j, i, row[column])
+    i += 1
+  j += 1
+
+try:
+  workbook.save(file_name.split(".")[0] + ".xls")
+  sys.exit(0)
+except:
+  print("Cannot create the xls file")
+  sys.exit(1)