freexl

Install command: 
brew install freexl

Library to extract data from Excel .xls files

https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/freexl/index

License: MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-2.1-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/freexl.json

Formula code: freexl.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 2.0.0

Depends on:

minizip 1.4 C library for zip/unzip via zLib

Uses from macOS: expat

GitHub Packages downloads:

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