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Convert to DIF

Data Interchange Format. The API converts 11 formats to DIF. These are the options, by input format.

curl https://api.switchfile.io/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SWITCHFILE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com/input.fods","to":"dif"}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.switchfile.io/v1/convert", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SWITCHFILE_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({"url":"https://example.com/input.fods","to":"dif"}),
});
console.log(await res.json());

From 9 formats

fods, ods, ots, xls, xlsm, xlsx, xlt, xltm, xltx

passwordstringdefault: not set
Password to open the file.

From CSV

delimiterstringdefault: ,
Field separator of the input file: one character or comma, semicolon, tab, pipe, space.
encodingstringdefault: utf-8
Text encoding of the input file, for example utf-8, windows-1252, iso-8859-1 or utf-16.
passwordstringdefault: not set
Password to open the file.

From TSV

delimiterstringdefault: tab
Field separator of the input file: one character or comma, semicolon, tab, pipe, space.
encodingstringdefault: utf-8
Text encoding of the input file, for example utf-8, windows-1252, iso-8859-1 or utf-16.
passwordstringdefault: not set
Password to open the file.