Xleak
Terminal Excel viewer with interactive TUI and search
Details
- External ID
- 45862480
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Xleak
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 9, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN! I just released xleak, a terminal-based Excel viewer written in Rust.I was inspired by working with spreadsheets and word documents on the command line and wanted something faster than opening Excel/LibreOffice. It supports .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .xlsb, and .ods files.Key features: - Interactive TUI with full keyboard navigation (vim-style search with / and n/N) - View Excel formulas in cells - Copy cells/rows to clipboard - Export to CSV, JSON, or text - Lazy loading for large files (1000+ rows) - Jump to any cell (e.g., "A100", "500", or "10,5")Built with the calamine crate for fast Excel parsing and ratatui for the TUI.Installation: cargo install xleak, or Homebrew, Nix, or pre-built binaries.Would love feedback on features or use cases I'm missing!GitHub: https://github.com/bgreenwell/xleak
Enrichment
- Theme
- spreadsheet and tabular data tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal viewer for excel files
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a terminal UI spreadsheet viewer utilizing existing spreadsheet parsing libraries and standard Rust TUI frameworks like Ratatui.
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