Show HN: CSVshare – Instantly share data with anyone and make it searchable

Cool project, I had a same issue like author mentioned with sharing csv files in Google sheets so recently I made a utility to convert csv files to HTML table - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vividvilla&#x2F;csvtotable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vividvilla&#x2F;csvtotable</a> it works offline also and generates single HTML file which can be shared or hosted anywhere. Here is a demo of HTML file generated - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.rawgit.com&#x2F;vividvilla&#x2F;csvtotable&#x2F;2.1.0&#x2F;sample&#x2F;goog.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.rawgit.com&#x2F;vividvilla&#x2F;csvtotable&#x2F;2.1.0&#x2F;sample&#x2F;go...</a>

I just tried out the service. Some feedback:<p>1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed.<p>2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames included gz at the end as of now they&#x27;re written out as a series of random characters followed by a .csv extension.<p>3. Time columns have been transformed after I downloaded the file I just uploaded. The date is in US format and the time information is lost. 2010-12-01 13:51:00 became 12&#x2F;1&#x2F;10.<p>4. When trying to view a 50K row CSV on your site Chrome slows to a crawl.<p>5. I originally tried to upload a 1-million-row x 9 column, 33 MB, gzip compressed CSV. It would be good if the service limits could allow for something like this.<p>This service should do one better than just sending a CSV via email and having the other party opening it up in Excel.

The idea is great. The internet needs a simple and useful tool like that.<p>However, it fails when I try to browse a .txt file (which is CSV, believe me) based just on its extension. Also, it is way too slow. I&#x27;ve opened the longest rivers example the site has offered me and couldn&#x27;t even search, scrolling was difficult.

I wonder why I would use this when I can use google spreadsheets?

Very nice Jason.<p>I know I&#x27;m always bugging you about Fieldbook APIs (this is Nate K again), but is there an api for creation here?<p>I have a super-duper-cool use case in mind but it involves POSTing an in-memory CSV rather than manually clicking (but I don&#x27;t want to clutter my fieldbook namespace).

I wonder if they&#x27;ve thought about the CSV injection attacks that were posted to HN recently...

Very nice. I made a system to search CSV files at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gosharedata.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gosharedata.com</a> but I it is only available as a download and not online, so I like CSVShare, very cool!

Is there anyway you could put exported file size or total number of rows on the detail page (for those interested in analyzing medium-large sets).

I assume this is meant for use of none sensitive data? What do you do with the uploaded files?