How to Read CSV File Data in Node JS?

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In this tutorial, we learn to read CSV file in nodejs using Node FS (File System) built-in module and csv-parse. While you can read CSV files using the fs module that comes with Node and get the content of the file. In this example read CSV file using CSV-parser packages.

So let's start following example with output:

Step 1: Create Node.js Project

This step is not required; however, if you have not created the node js app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

mkdir my-app
cd my-app
 
npm init

Step 2: Installing node-csv

The module consists of csv-generate, csv-parse, csv-transform and csv-stringify packages.

npm install csv

Reading CSV File with csv-parse

Read CSV files, we’ll be using the csv-parse package from node-csv.

Let's create a file, called index.js and construct a parser:

Step 3: Update index.js file

index.js

// call package read CSV file
var fs = require('fs'); 
var { parse } = require("csv-parse");

// call read CSV file
var parser = parse({columns: true}, function (err, records) {
    console.log(records);
});

// get CSV file path
fs.createReadStream(__dirname+'/demo.csv').pipe(parser);

Output:

[
    { Name: 'Piyush Kamani', Designation: 'Web Developer', Year: '2017' },
    { Name: 'Vivek Thummar', Designation: 'Web Developer', Year: '2022' },
    { Name: 'Yesh Kamani', Designation: 'Web Developer', Year: '2022' }
]