Format Conversion

XLSX HTML Table Preview

Render an Excel range to HTML table for web preview with merged cells and basic background colors

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/xlsx-html-table-preview' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/excelFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/xlsx-html-table-preview' \
  -F 'excelFile=/public/samples/xlsx/workbook-sales.xlsx' \
  -F 'sheetName=Sheet1' \
  -F 'range=A1:E20' \
  -F 'headerRow=1' \
  -F 'includeStyles=true'

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/xlsx-html-table-preview

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
excelFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
sheetName	text	No	—
range	text	No	—
headerRow	number	No	—
includeStyles	checkbox	No	—

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-xlsx-html-table-preview": {
      "name": "xlsx-html-table-preview",
      "description": "Render an Excel range to HTML table for web preview with merged cells and basic background colors",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=xlsx-html-table-preview",
      "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": "xlsx-html-table-preview",
    "arguments": {
  "excelFile": "/public/samples/xlsx/workbook-sales.xlsx",
  "sheetName": "Sheet1",
  "range": "A1:E20",
  "headerRow": 1,
  "includeStyles": true
}
  }
}

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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