Text Processing

Messy Text to Structured Data Workbench

Infer tables from pasted text, mixed delimiters, key-value lines, or HTML and export CSV, JSON, and Markdown.

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/messy-text-to-structured-data-workbench' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"textInput":"name\tage\tactive\nAda\t37\ttrue\nLinus\t5\tfalse","inputMode":"auto","delimiter":"","headerMode":"auto","trimCells":true,"useAI":false}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/messy-text-to-structured-data-workbench

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
textInput	textarea	Yes	—
inputMode	select	No	—
delimiter	text	No	—
headerMode	select	No	—
trimCells	checkbox	No	—
useAI

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-messy-text-to-structured-data-workbench": {
      "name": "messy-text-to-structured-data-workbench",
      "description": "Infer tables from pasted text, mixed delimiters, key-value lines, or HTML and export CSV, JSON, and Markdown.",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=messy-text-to-structured-data-workbench",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "messy-text-to-structured-data-workbench",
    "arguments": {
  "textInput": "name\tage\tactive\nAda\t37\ttrue\nLinus\t5\tfalse",
  "inputMode": "auto",
  "delimiter": "",
  "headerMode": "auto",
  "trimCells": true,
  "useAI": false
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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