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Expand Up @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The archive will contain a few items:

### Converting exported data to CSV

You can use the `jq` tool to convert the JSON files to CSV:
You can use the [`jq`](https://jqlang.github.io/jq/) tool to convert the JSON files to CSV:

To create a single column CSV with all your urls, in the directory with your json files:

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To create a CSV that also contains your labels, you can use this command:

```
jq -r '[.[] | {url: .url, labels: (.labels | join(","))} | "\(.url),\"\(.labels)\""] | @csv' *.json
jq -r '
(["url","title","note","tags","created"]),
(.[] | [
.url,
(.title | gsub("\\n";" ") | gsub("\\r";" ") | gsub("\"";"''") | gsub("[^[:print:]]";" ") | gsub("\\s+";" ")),
(.description | gsub("\\n";" ") | gsub("\\r";" ") | gsub("\"";"''") | gsub("[^[:print:]]";" ") | gsub("\\s+";" ")),
([.labels[]?]|join(",")),
.savedAt
]) | @csv
' metadata_*.json > omnivore-export.csv
```