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rufuspollock / chrome-csv-viewer

Recline Chrome CSV Viewer - a chrome extension which allows you to view, search, graph and map CSV files in the browser
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recline-csv-viewer/ibfcfelnbfhlbpelldnngdcklnndhael
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Support direct CSV urls #9

Open rufuspollock opened 10 years ago

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

Should be able to paste a CSV link directly and then have Recline viewer kick in.

This is possible to do but somewhat complex as we have to intercept URL and analyse it as CSV which when this extension was first built required an experimental chrome developer API.

It also has the usability downside that users have no way to directly download CSVs anymore (however that could be addressed in some way - e.g. right-click to download direct or something ...)

sejohnso1 commented 9 years ago

Would you have example HTML that implements this processing of the URL as a CSV?

Thanks in advance for any help you might have.