ExcelAPI
Generate and parse Excel files with one API call
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Nimish Gupta

ExcelAPI - Generate and parse Excel files with one API call

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Tired of writing Excel boilerplate in every project? ExcelAPI handles it with one HTTP call. Send JSON → get a formatted xlsx back. Upload xlsx → get structured JSON back. Upload PDF → get Excel back. Works in Python, Node.js, PHP, or any language that makes HTTP requests. Free tier: 50 calls/month, no credit card needed. Built by a solo developer who got tired of solving the same Excel problem over and over.

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Nimish Gupta
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built ExcelAPI because I kept solving the same problem over and over. Every project I built needed Excel exports. Invoices, reports, data exports. Each time wrote the same 200 lines of boilerplate code. Install the library, create workbook, add worksheet, style headers, fix column widths, debug date formatting, write buffer to response. Then do it all again in the next project three months later. I finally got frustrated enough to build a proper solution. ExcelAPI is a REST API that handles all Excel file operations via HTTP calls. You send JSON, you get a formatted xlsx file back in under a second. One endpoint. Any language. No library installation. No boilerplate. It also handles parsing Excel files back to JSON, converting PDFs to Excel, and validating sheet structure — all the things I kept needing but kept rebuilding from scratch. Free tier has 50 calls per month. No credit card needed. Happy to answer any questions about how it works, what I used to build it, or anything else. This is my first public launch and I am genuinely excited to hear what you think.