How to export JavaScript array info to csv (on client side)?

Question

I know there are lot of questions of this nature but I need to do this using JavaScript. I am using Dojo 1.8 and have all the attribute info in array, which loo

Answer 1

People are trying to create their own csv string, which fail on edge cases, e.g. special characters, surely this is a solved problem right?

papaparse - use for JSON to CSV encoding. Papa.unparse().

import Papa from "papaparse";

const downloadCSV = (args) => {  

  let filename = args.filename || 'export.csv';
  let columns = args.columns || null;

  let csv = Papa.unparse({ data: args.data, fields: columns})
  if (csv == null) return;

  var blob = new Blob([csv]);
  if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob)  // IE hack; see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh779016.aspx
      window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, args.filename);
  else
  {
      var a = window.document.createElement("a");
      a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob, {type: "text/plain"});
      a.download = filename;
      document.body.appendChild(a);
      a.click();  // IE: "Access is denied"; see: https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/797361/ie-10-treats-blob-url-as-cross-origin-and-denies-access
      document.body.removeChild(a);
  }

}

Example usage

downloadCSV({ 
  filename: 'filename.csv',
  data: [{'a': '1', 'b': 2'}],
  columns: ['a','b']
});

https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/175 - See this comment for browser support discussion.