danielbrendel / hortusfox-web

Self-hosted collaborative plant management and tracking system for plant enthusiasts
https://www.hortusfox.com
MIT License
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Export data to open standard? #210

Closed lockheed closed 4 months ago

lockheed commented 6 months ago

I wanted to see if there is a plan for an export function. Say, in the future I might want to move my plant data to google sheets, or some other program. There is a backup function, but looking at the files, it would be quite a bit of manual labour to extract the data from it into something else.

Can you introduce such function? CSV format or something else, but one that can be imported (including photos) to, for example, Google Sheets or a database.

danielbrendel commented 6 months ago

The JSON data could be put in CSV format. For the images I guess you would need to perform some base64 encoding to put them in printable characters and put that encoded text in a column. I don't know if Google Sheets would show them tho, so you would not have viewable images unless you convert them back again.

Do you want to alter them later in Google Sheets? If not then you could just backup the exported zip file to a hosting space.

danielbrendel commented 4 months ago

Closed due to inactivity.