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A free, in-browser JSON to CSV converter.
https://konklone.io/json/
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JSON to CSV Privacy #242

Closed jmf99 closed 4 years ago

jmf99 commented 4 years ago

Is data in a JSON file protected from data privacy breaches while uploading and being converted, and is it completely deleted after conversion to CSV or stored somewhere a third party or even GitHub could access it?

konklone commented 4 years ago

Hi @jmf99 - reasonable question, and the answer is simple - it's never uploaded at all. The JSON->CSV conversion is done entirely client-side, inside the user's browser. This is what Your data is never sent to our servers. means on the top of the page.

This does mean that the app is limited by the user's local memory/CPU on how much JSON data the user can reasonably convert, but it's a very simple solution and I prefer these trade-offs.

An earlier version of the web app had an opt-in "permalink" feature, where the user could generate a permalink to their uploaded data, which would upload the JSON to an anonymous Gist. GitHub stopped supporting that use case, and I removed it from the site.

Let me know if you have any more questions.