CSV to JSON converter: paste CSV data and get clean JSON instantly with header keys and correct type handling. Free, private, runs locally, no signup.
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A worked example: 5 lines of CSV in, exact JSON out
Paste these 4 lines: name,qty,price on row 1, then Widget,2,4.50, then Gadget,3,1.25, then "Gizmo, Pro",1,9.99. The parser first drops nothing (no blank lines), so 3 data rows survive and the hero shows 3 JSON rows and 3 columns.
Walk the state machine on the last line. It opens with a quote, so q=true and the comma after Gizmo is literal, not a separator. The string becomes Gizmo, Pro; the closing quote flips q back to false; then two commas split out 1 and 9.99. Without that quote handling the row would split into 4 fields and price would end up empty.
Each data row becomes one object keyed by the header: {"name":"Widget","qty":"2","price":"4.50"}, then the Gadget row, then the Gizmo row. Note the values stay strings: qty is "2", not 2, so JSON.parse of the output gives you text you may need to Number() before summing. 2 times 4.50 plus 3 times 1.25 plus 1 times 9.99 equals 24.99 only if you convert first.
Edge cases this converter will not fix
Fields containing newlines break it. The input is split on every \n before quote parsing, so a quoted address like "12 Main St\nSpringfield" becomes two rows and misaligns every column after it. Real RFC 4180 CSV allows multi-line quoted fields; spreadsheets exported with them will convert wrong, and the tool has no way to warn you because each resulting row still looks valid.
The closing-quote test also has a quirk: it strips a quote only when the buffer already ends with one. A value like 5"6 (a lone quote mid-field, not doubled) toggles quote mode on and can swallow following commas until a second quote appears. A quick sanity check: count that the JSON has the same number of keys per row as your header, and spot-check one row where you know a comma appears inside a field.
Duplicate header names silently overwrite each other: two columns named id produce objects with one id key, and the later column wins. For files over roughly 10 MB, everything is handled in one string in the browser, so expect slowdowns or tab crashes; chunk files above that size instead of pasting the whole thing.
