How to export a .xls file from a website as a CSV file?

Question

I am trying to export self updating .xls file from other website to mine as csv, so that I will be able to create "Live data graphs" using Highcharts JS for different parameters from this , which also update automatically according to the file.

OR

I have another method, same self updating data is on a website in form of table which gets updated with time. So , is it possilble to pull data from there for specific parameters and generate live data graphs?

Please Help.....

Answer 1

If I got you right, you want to convert an .xls file to .csv ? Then you'll want to look at this article: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/yuanwang200409/how-to-convert-xls-file-into-csv-file-in-c-sharp/

As well as consider some answers on SO:

• Is there any simple way to convert .xls file to .csv file? (Excel)
• C# converting .xls to .csv without Excel

Personally I like the solution to extract .xls into dataset and then generate you .csv from datatble. (see c# datatable to csv )

Answer 2

How about using a Google spreadsheet?

http://dataist.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/using-google-spreadsheet-as-a-database/