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    Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets

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    Go
    BSD-3-Clause
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    Updated 6/29/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Go library to read, write, and manipulate Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files including XLSX, XLSM, XLAM, XLTX, and XLTM formats.
    • Offers high compatibility with Excel features and supports streaming large datasets efficiently, enabling scalable spreadsheet processing in Go.
    • Use for generating complex Excel reports with charts and formulas programmatically in Go applications.
    • Use for automating data extraction and analysis from Excel files in backend services or data pipelines.
    • Use for embedding images and creating visually rich Excel documents for business intelligence or presentation purposes.

    About excelize

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    Excelize

    Introduction

    Excelize is a library written in pure Go providing a set of functions that allow you to write to and read from XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX files. Supports reading and writing spreadsheet documents generated by Microsoft Excel™ 2007 and later. Supports complex components by high compatibility, and provided streaming API for generating or reading data from a worksheet with huge amounts of data. This library needs Go version 1.23.0 or later. The full docs can be seen using go's built-in documentation tool, or online at go.dev and docs reference.

    Basic Usage

    Installation

    go get github.com/xuri/excelize
    
    • If your packages are managed using Go Modules, please install with following command.
    go get github.com/xuri/excelize/v2
    

    Create spreadsheet

    Here is a minimal example usage that will create spreadsheet file.

    package main
    
    import (
        "fmt"
    
        "github.com/xuri/excelize/v2"
    )
    
    func main() {
        f := excelize.NewFile()
        defer func() {
            if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
                fmt.Println(err)
            }
        }()
        // Create a new sheet.
        index, err := f.NewSheet("Sheet2")
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        // Set value of a cell.
        f.SetCellValue("Sheet2", "A2", "Hello world.")
        f.SetCellValue("Sheet1", "B2", 100)
        // Set active sheet of the workbook.
        f.SetActiveSheet(index)
        // Save spreadsheet by the given path.
        if err := f.SaveAs("Book1.xlsx"); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
        }
    }
    

    Reading spreadsheet

    The following constitutes the bare to read a spreadsheet document.

    package main
    
    import (
        "fmt"
    
        "github.com/xuri/excelize/v2"
    )
    
    func main() {
        f, err := excelize.OpenFile("Book1.xlsx")
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        defer func() {
            // Close the spreadsheet.
            if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
                fmt.Println(err)
            }
        }()
        // Get value from cell by given worksheet name and cell reference.
        cell, err := f.GetCellValue("Sheet1", "B2")
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        fmt.Println(cell)
        // Get all the rows in the Sheet1.
        rows, err := f.GetRows("Sheet1")
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        for _, row := range rows {
            for _, colCell := range row {
                fmt.Print(colCell, "\t")
            }
            fmt.Println()
        }
    }
    

    Add chart to spreadsheet file

    With Excelize chart generation and management is as easy as a few lines of code. You can build charts based on data in your worksheet or generate charts without any data in your worksheet at all.

    Excelize

    package main
    
    import (
        "fmt"
    
        "github.com/xuri/excelize/v2"
    )
    
    func main() {
        f := excelize.NewFile()
        defer func() {
            if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
                fmt.Println(err)
            }
        }()
        for idx, row := range [][]interface{}{
            {nil, "Apple", "Orange", "Pear"}, {"Small", 2, 3, 3},
            {"Normal", 5, 2, 4}, {"Large", 6, 7, 8},
        } {
            cell, err := excelize.CoordinatesToCellName(1, idx+1)
            if err != nil {
                fmt.Println(err)
                return
            }
            f.SetSheetRow("Sheet1", cell, &row)
        }
        if err := f.AddChart("Sheet1", "E1", &excelize.Chart{
            Type: excelize.Col3DClustered,
            Series: []excelize.ChartSeries{
                {
                    Name:       "Sheet1!$A$2",
                    Categories: "Sheet1!$B$1:$D$1",
                    Values:     "Sheet1!$B$2:$D$2",
                },
                {
                    Name:       "Sheet1!$A$3",
                    Categories: "Sheet1!$B$1:$D$1",
                    Values:     "Sheet1!$B$3:$D$3",
                },
                {
                    Name:       "Sheet1!$A$4",
                    Categories: "Sheet1!$B$1:$D$1",
                    Values:     "Sheet1!$B$4:$D$4",
                }},
            Title: []excelize.RichTextRun{
                {
                    Text: "Fruit 3D Clustered Column Chart",
                },
            },
        }); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        // Save spreadsheet by the given path.
        if err := f.SaveAs("Book1.xlsx"); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
        }
    }
    

    Add picture to spreadsheet file

    package main
    
    import (
        "fmt"
        _ "image/gif"
        _ "image/jpeg"
        _ "image/png"
    
        "github.com/xuri/excelize/v2"
    )
    
    func main() {
        f, err := excelize.OpenFile("Book1.xlsx")
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        defer func() {
            // Close the spreadsheet.
            if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
                fmt.Println(err)
            }
        }()
        // Insert a picture.
        if err := f.AddPicture("Sheet1", "A2", "image.png", nil); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
        }
        // Insert a picture to worksheet with scaling.
        if err := f.AddPicture("Sheet1", "D2", "image.jpg",
            &excelize.GraphicOptions{ScaleX: 0.5, ScaleY: 0.5}); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
        }
        // Insert a picture offset in the cell with printing support.
        enable, disable := true, false
        if err := f.AddPicture("Sheet1", "H2", "image.gif",
            &excelize.GraphicOptions{
                PrintObject:     &enable,
                LockAspectRatio: false,
                OffsetX:         15,
                OffsetY:         10,
                Locked:          &disable,
            }); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
        }
        // Save the spreadsheet with the origin path.
        if err = f.Save(); err != nil {
            fmt.Println(err)
        }
    }
    

    Contributing

    Contributions are welcome! Open a pull request to fix a bug, or open an issue to discuss a new feature or change. XML is compliant with part 1 of the 5th edition of the ECMA-376 Standard for Office Open XML.

    Licenses

    This program is under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License. See https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.

    The Excel logo is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. This artwork is an adaptation.

    gopher.{ai,svg,png} was created by Takuya Ueda. Licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.

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