TSV to JSON Converter
World's simplest tsv tool
World's simplest online Tab Separated Values to JavaScript Object Notation converter. Just paste your TSV file in the form below and it will instantly get converted to JSON. Free, quick, and very powerful. Paste TSV, get JSON. Created by programmers from team Browserling.
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What is a TSV to JSON Converter?
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This tool transforms Tab Separated Values (TSV) files to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data structures. The output JSON can either be an array of objects or an array of arrays. You can control whether it's objects or arrays via the "Convert Headers to JSON Keys" option. If this option is on, then the first row of your TSV data with column names will be used as keys for the JSON objects (one TSV row will be converted to one object with as many keys as there are columns). Otherwise, the data will simply be converted as arrays (one TSV row will be converted to one array with as many elements as there are columns). If your TSV data doesn't have headers, then you can disable this option. Numbers and boolean values can be represented in JSON without quotes using the "Unquote Numbers and Booleans" option. The "Remove Empty Lines" option can be used to eliminate empty lines from the output. You also can change JSON indentation to spaces, tabs, or output compressed JSON. If your input TSV uses different delimiter, quote, and comment characters than tabs (\t), double quotes ("), and hashes (#), you can customize them in the options. These options make the tool very flexible and it can work with non-standard TSV file formats. To convert JSON back to TSV, you can use our Convert JSON to TSV tool. TSVabulous!
TSV to JSON Converter examples
Click to useTranspile TSV to JSON
This example translates TSV to JSON and sets JSON indentation to 2 spaces. The input data contains 3 columns and 3 rows. The first row defines column titles ("foo", "bar", "baz") and the remaining 2 rows contain the data ("aaa", "bbb", "ccc", etc). When the input TSV is converted into JSON, the column titles are used as JSON keys and the data are used as JSON values.
foo bar baz
aaa bbb ccc
ddd eee fff
[
{
"foo": "aaa",
"bar": "bbb",
"baz": "ccc"
},
{
"foo": "ddd",
"bar": "eee",
"baz": "fff"
}
]
Required options
What character separates TSV
columns? (Usually a tab "\t".)
What character encloses TSV
values in quotes? (Usually
double quotes.)
What character denotes the
beginning of a TSV comment?
(Usually a hash "#".)
Generate an associative JSON array
where the headers from the first
row of TSV are used as keys.
Detect numeric and boolean data
types in TSV and leave them
unquoted in JSON.
Skip empty TSV lines and exclude
them from being converted
to JSON.
Use two spaces for hierarchical
indentation.
Create a JSON Object from a TSV
In this example, we convert a TSV file into an array of JavaScript objects. The input TSV contains a list of the most popular games of the last decade. The first column contains the years and the second column contains the game titles. After converting this two-column list to JSON, each row becomes a separate object with the keys "Year" and "Video Game". Additionally, we activate the "Unquote Numbers and Booleans" option and use tabs to add hierarchical indentation to the output JSON.
Year Video Game
2010 Mass Effect 2
2011 Dark Souls
2012 The Walking Dead
2013 Dota 2
2014 The Last of Us
2015 The Witcher 3
2016 Overwatch
2017 Legend of Zelda
2018 Minecraft
2019 Resident Evil 2
2020 Mortal Kombat 11
[
{
"Year": 2010,
"Video Game": "Mass Effect 2"
},
{
"Year": 2011,
"Video Game": "Dark Souls"
},
{
"Year": 2012,
"Video Game": "The Walking Dead"
},
{
"Year": 2013,
"Video Game": "Dota 2"
},
{
"Year": 2014,
"Video Game": "The Last of Us"
},
{
"Year": 2015,
"Video Game": "The Witcher 3"
},
{
"Year": 2016,
"Video Game": "Overwatch"
},
{
"Year": 2017,
"Video Game": "Legend of Zelda"
},
{
"Year": 2018,
"Video Game": "Minecraft"
},
{
"Year": 2019,
"Video Game": "Resident Evil 2"
},
{
"Year": 2020,
"Video Game": "Mortal Kombat 11"
}
]
Required options
What character separates TSV
columns? (Usually a tab "\t".)
What character encloses TSV
values in quotes? (Usually
double quotes.)
What character denotes the
beginning of a TSV comment?
(Usually a hash "#".)
Generate an associative JSON array
where the headers from the first
row of TSV are used as keys.
Detect numeric and boolean data
types in TSV and leave them
unquoted in JSON.
Skip empty TSV lines and exclude
them from being converted
to JSON.
Use one tab for hierarchical
indentation.
Create a Minified JSON from TSV
In this example, we transform TSV data into a minified JSON array. By disabling the option to convert headers into JSON keys, we obtain a bunch of arrays as output, where each array represents one tab-separated record. Additionally, we remove empty lines and comments from the input TSV data. The comments are removed because they start with the hash symbol "#" and we entered this symbol in the tool settings.
Name Department Position
Alice Marketing Manager
Bob HR Specialist
Charlie Finance Analyst
David IT Developer
Emily Operations Coordinator
#Micheal
[["Name","Department","Position"],["Alice","Marketing","Manager"],["Bob","HR","Specialist"],["Charlie","Finance","Analyst"],["David","IT","Developer"],["Emily","Operations","Coordinator"]]
Required options
What character separates TSV
columns? (Usually a tab "\t".)
What character encloses TSV
values in quotes? (Usually
double quotes.)
What character denotes the
beginning of a TSV comment?
(Usually a hash "#".)
Generate an associative JSON array
where the headers from the first
row of TSV are used as keys.
Detect numeric and boolean data
types in TSV and leave them
unquoted in JSON.
Skip empty TSV lines and exclude
them from being converted
to JSON.
Output the JSON as a
single line (minified).
Pro tips
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You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!
https://onlinetsvtools.com/convert-tsv-to-json?input=foo%09bar%09baz%0Aaaa%09bbb%09ccc%0Addd%09eee%09fff&char-delimiter=%5Ct&char-quote=%22&char-comments=%23&convert-headers=true&convert-dynamic-types=true&convert-skip-empty=true&formatting-spaces=true
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Quickly extract columns from a TSV file.
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Quickly add quotes around TSV columns.
Quickly remove quotes that surround TSV columns.
Quickly swap columns in a TSV file.
Quickly convert a TSV file to a JSON data structure.
Quickly convert a JSON data structure to TSV format.
Quickly convert a TSV file to XML markup.
Quickly convert XML markup to a TSV file.
Quickly convert a TSV file to YAML markup.
Quickly convert YAML data to a TSV file.
Quickly convert TSV data to CSV data.
Quickly convert CSV data to TSV data.
Quickly convert TSV data to nicely aligned text columns.
Quickly convert text columns to TSV columns.
Quickly convert TSV data to base64 encoding.
Quickly convert base64-encoded TSV data to TSV data.
Quickly convert a TSV file to URL-encoding.
Quickly convert a URL-encoded TSV file back to TSV.
Quickly prepend new columns at the start of a TSV file.
Quickly append new columns at the end of a TSV file.
Quickly insert new columns anywhere in a TSV file.
Quickly replace columns in a TSV file.
Quickly remove extra spaces around TSV columns.
Quickly truncate the contents of TSV cells to any length.
Quickly exchange TSV columns with rows.
Quickly exchange TSV rows with columns.
Quickly transpose a TSV file.
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Validate TSV
Quickly check a TSV file for errors and report them.
Display TSV Statistics
Print information about a TSV file.
Calculate TSV Entropy
Find the complexity of a TSV file.
Show TSV Structure
Create an abstract drawing that shows the structure of a TSV.
View and Edit TSV
Show a TSV file in a neat editor and allow easy editing.
Convert TSV to Double-TSV
Convert a TSV file to a double-TSV file.
Convert Double-TSV to TSV
Convert a double-TSV file to a regular TSV file.
Convert TSV to HTML Table
Convert a Tab Separated Values file to an HTML table.
Convert HTML Table to TSV
Convert an HTML table to a Tab Separated Values file.
Convert TSV to Markdown
Convert a TSV file to a Markdown table.
Convert Markdown to TSV
Convert a Markdown table to a TSV file.
Convert TSV to PDF
Convert a Tab Separated Values file to a PDF document.
Convert PDF to TSV
Convert a PDF document to a Tab Separated Values file.
Convert TSV to Image
Draw Tab Separated Values as a table and output it as an image.
Convert Image to TSV
Extract data in an image and format it as a TSV file.
Convert TSV to Excel
Convert a Tab Separated Values file to an Excel spreadsheet.
Convert Excel to TSV
Convert an Excel file to a Tab Separated Values file.
Convert TSV to LaTeX
Convert a TSV file to LaTeX code that generates a table.
Convert TSV to ASCII Table
Convert a Tab Separated Values file to a neat ASCII table.
Convert ASCII Table to TSV
Convert an ASCII table to a Tab Separated Values file.
Convert TSV to SQL
Convert a Tab Separated Values file to an SQL query.
Convert TSV to SQLite
Convert a Tab Separated Values file to an SQLite database.
Convert SQLite to TSV
Export tables from an SQLite database as TSV files.
Convert TSV to PSV
Convert a TSV file to a PSV (Pipe Separated Values) file.
Convert PSV to TSV
Convert a PSV (Pipe Separated Values) file to a TSV file.
Convert TSV to HSV
Convert a TSV file to a HSV (Hash Separated Values) file.
Convert HSV to TSV
Convert a HSV (Hash Separated Values) file to a TSV file.
Convert TSV to SSV
Convert a TSV file to a SSV (Semicolon Separated Values) file.
Convert SSV to TSV
Convert a SSV (Semicolon Separated Values) file to a TSV file.
Convert TSV to 0SV
Convert a TSV file to a 0SV (Null Separated Values) file.
Convert 0SV to TSV
Convert a 0SV (Null Separated Values) file to a TSV file.
Split a TSV File
Create multiple TSV files from the given TSV file.
Merge TSV Files
Merge together two Tab Separated Values files.
Delete TSV Tabs
Remove tabs that go between TSV columns and merge all data.
Delete Empty TSV Columns
Remove columns that have no values in a TSV file.
Delete Empty TSV Rows
Remove rows that have no values in a TSV file.
Delete Empty TSV Lines
Remove lines in a TSV file that are blank.
Delete TSV Comments
Delete TSV lines that are comments.
Filter TSV Data
Filter rows and columns that match a pattern.
Find Values in TSV
Find certain values in TSV cells.
Compress TSV
Minify a TSV file and remove extra spaces and indentation.
Compare Two TSV Files
Diff two TSV files and visually display the differences.
Rotate TSV Columns
Rotate TSV columns to the left or right.
Rotate TSV Rows
Rotate TSV rows up or down.
Cut a TSV File
Cut a fragment from a TSV file.
Slice a TSV File
Extract a slice (rows/columns/cells) of a TSV file.
Randomize TSV Values
Shuffle all data values in a TSV file.
Randomize TSV Columns
Shuffle the order of TSV columns.
Randomize TSV Rows
Shuffle the order of TSV rows.
Sort TSV Columns
Sort values in a TSV column.
Sort TSV Rows
Sort values in a TSV rows.
Count TSV Columns
Find how many columns there are in the given TSV data.
Count TSV Rows
Find how many rows there are in the given TSV data.
Count TSV Entries
Find how many total entries there are in a TSV file.
Color a TSV File
Add colors to TSV data for easy visual overview of the file.
Add Errors to TSV
Create random errors in a TSV file for fuzz testing.
Create a Custom TSV
Generate a custom TSV with n rows and m columns.
Open a TSV File
Open a TSV file directly in your browser.
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