[Feature Request]: Add Excel File support out of the box.

[vinaayakha]

CSV is cool, but as I process a lot of Excel, I created a custom model but thought it would be great to have it out of the box in the phi data framework to dump a data frame from Excel.

Should I raise a PR for review?

[manthanguptaa]

Hey @vinaayakha, please go ahead. This would be a wonderful addition to Phidata!

[vinaayakha]

Hey @manthanguptaa, Thanks for assigning it to me. I will be able to complete it in 8 working days, and I will start at in Dec 01 2024.

[manthanguptaa]

Hey @vinaayakha, how is the PR coming along?

[vinaayakha]

Hey @vinaayakha, how is the PR coming along?

Hi @manthanguptaa, I've added the necessary changes to the tool, I still want to test it some, Due to my work, I haven't been able to do it. I hope to raise a PR this weekend for this change request.

Thanks.

[vinaayakha]

Hi @manthanguptaa, Can i add the library unstructured==0.16.11? It has a lot of working tools that is required for excel parsing.

[manthanguptaa]

Sure @vinaayakha, but when you try to import it put it under a try-except block. For example

try:
    from firecrawl import FirecrawlApp
except ImportError:
    raise ImportError("`firecrawl-py` not installed. Please install using `pip install firecrawl-py`")

Don't update the pyproject.toml file or the requirements.txt file

[manthanguptaa]

Hey @vinaayakha any update on this? Are you still working on it?