[javascript] How to export JavaScript array info to csv (on client side)?

I know there are lot of questions of this nature but I need to do this using JavaScript. I am using Dojo 1.8 and have all the attribute info in array, which looks like this:

[["name1", "city_name1", ...]["name2", "city_name2", ...]]

Any idea how I can export this to CSV on the client side?

I came here looking for a bit more RFC 4180 compliance and I failed to find an implementation, so I made a (possibly inefficient) one for my own needs. I thought I would share it with everyone.

var content = [['1st title', '2nd title', '3rd title', 'another title'], ['a a a', 'bb\nb', 'cc,c', 'dd"d'], ['www', 'xxx', 'yyy', 'zzz']];

var finalVal = '';

for (var i = 0; i < content.length; i++) {
    var value = content[i];

    for (var j = 0; j < value.length; j++) {
        var innerValue =  value[j]===null?'':value[j].toString();
        var result = innerValue.replace(/"/g, '""');
        if (result.search(/("|,|\n)/g) >= 0)
            result = '"' + result + '"';
        if (j > 0)
            finalVal += ',';
        finalVal += result;
    }

    finalVal += '\n';
}

console.log(finalVal);

var download = document.getElementById('download');
download.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(finalVal));
download.setAttribute('download', 'test.csv');

Hopefully this will help someone out in the future. This combines both the encoding of the CSV along with the ability to download the file. In my example on jsfiddle. You can download the file (assuming HTML 5 browser) or view the output in the console.

UPDATE:

Chrome now appears to have lost the ability to name the file. I'm not sure what's happened or how to fix it, but whenever I use this code (including the jsfiddle), the downloaded file is now named download.csv.

Working for all languages

        function convertToCsv(fName, rows) {
        var csv = '';
        for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
            var row = rows[i];
            for (var j = 0; j < row.length; j++) {
                var val = row[j] === null ? '' : row[j].toString();
                val = val.replace(/\t/gi, " ");
                if (j > 0)
                    csv += '\t';
                csv += val;
            }
            csv += '\n';
        }

        // for UTF-16
        var cCode, bArr = [];
        bArr.push(255, 254);
        for (var i = 0; i < csv.length; ++i) {
            cCode = csv.charCodeAt(i);
            bArr.push(cCode & 0xff);
            bArr.push(cCode / 256 >>> 0);
        }

        var blob = new Blob([new Uint8Array(bArr)], { type: 'text/csv;charset=UTF-16LE;' });
        if (navigator.msSaveBlob) {
            navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, fName);
        } else {
            var link = document.createElement("a");
            if (link.download !== undefined) {
                var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
                link.setAttribute("href", url);
                link.setAttribute("download", fName);
                link.style.visibility = 'hidden';
                document.body.appendChild(link);
                link.click();
                document.body.removeChild(link);
                window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
            }
        }
    }



    convertToCsv('download.csv', [
        ['Order', 'Language'],
        ['1', 'English'],
        ['2', 'Español'],
        ['3', 'Français'],
        ['4', 'Português'],
        ['5', 'ceština'],
        ['6', 'Slovenšcina'],
        ['7', 'Ti?ng Vi?t'],
        ['8', 'Türkçe'],
        ['9', 'Norsk bokmål'],
        ['10', '????????'],
        ['11', '?????????'],
        ['12', '???????'],
        ['13', '??????????'],
        ['14', '???????'],
        ['15', '???????'],
        ['16', '????'],
        ['17', '??????'],
        ['18', '?????'],
        ['19', '???'],
        ['20', '???????'],
        ['21', '??'],
        ['22', '???'],
        ['23', '???'],
    ])

The following is a native js solution.

function export2csv() {_x000D_
  let data = "";_x000D_
  const tableData = [];_x000D_
  const rows = [_x000D_
    ['111', '222', '333'],_x000D_
    ['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc'],_x000D_
    ['AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC']_x000D_
  ];_x000D_
  for (const row of rows) {_x000D_
    const rowData = [];_x000D_
    for (const column of row) {_x000D_
      rowData.push(column);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    tableData.push(rowData.join(","));_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  data += tableData.join("\n");_x000D_
  const a = document.createElement("a");_x000D_
  a.href = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([data], { type: "text/csv" }));_x000D_
  a.setAttribute("download", "data.csv");_x000D_
  document.body.appendChild(a);_x000D_
  a.click();_x000D_
  document.body.removeChild(a);_x000D_
}

<button onclick="export2csv()">Export array to csv file</button>

I use this function to convert an string[][] to a csv file. It quotes a cell, if it contains a ", a , or other whitespace (except blanks):

/**
 * Takes an array of arrays and returns a `,` sparated csv file.
 * @param {string[][]} table
 * @returns {string}
 */
function toCSV(table) {
    return table
        .map(function(row) {
            return row
                .map(function(cell) {
                    // We remove blanks and check if the column contains
                    // other whitespace,`,` or `"`.
                    // In that case, we need to quote the column.
                    if (cell.replace(/ /g, '').match(/[\s,"]/)) {
                        return '"' + cell.replace(/"/g, '""') + '"';
                    }
                    return cell;
                })
                .join(',');
        })
        .join('\n'); // or '\r\n' for windows

}

Note: does not work on Internet Explorer < 11 unless map is polyfilled.

Note: If the cells contain numbers, you can add cell=''+cell before if (cell.replace... to convert numbers to strings.

Or you can write it in one line using ES6:

t.map(r=>r.map(c=>c.replace(/ /g, '').match(/[\s,"]/)?'"'+c.replace(/"/g,'""')+'"':c).join(',')).join('\n')

People are trying to create their own csv string, which fail on edge cases, e.g. special characters, surely this is a solved problem right?

papaparse - use for JSON to CSV encoding. Papa.unparse().

import Papa from "papaparse";

const downloadCSV = (args) => {  

  let filename = args.filename || 'export.csv';
  let columns = args.columns || null;

  let csv = Papa.unparse({ data: args.data, fields: columns})
  if (csv == null) return;

  var blob = new Blob([csv]);
  if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob)  // IE hack; see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh779016.aspx
      window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, args.filename);
  else
  {
      var a = window.document.createElement("a");
      a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob, {type: "text/plain"});
      a.download = filename;
      document.body.appendChild(a);
      a.click();  // IE: "Access is denied"; see: https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/797361/ie-10-treats-blob-url-as-cross-origin-and-denies-access
      document.body.removeChild(a);
  }

}

Example usage

downloadCSV({ 
  filename: 'filename.csv',
  data: [{'a': '1', 'b': 2'}],
  columns: ['a','b']
});

https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/175 - See this comment for browser support discussion.

The solution from @Default works perfect on Chrome (thanks a lot for that!) but I had a problem with IE.

Here's a solution (works on IE10):

var csvContent=data; //here we load our csv data 
var blob = new Blob([csvContent],{
    type: "text/csv;charset=utf-8;"
});

navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, "filename.csv")

This is a modified answer based on the accepted answer wherein the data would be coming from JSON.

            JSON Data Ouptut:
             0 :{emails: "SAMPLE Co., [email protected]"}, 1:{emails: "Another CO. , [email protected]"}


            JS:
            $.getJSON('yourlink_goes_here', { if_you_have_parameters}, function(data) {
            var csvContent = "data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,";
            var dataString = '';
             $.each(data, function(k, v) {
                dataString += v.emails + "\n";
             });

            csvContent += dataString;

            var encodedUri = encodeURI(csvContent);
            var link = document.createElement("a");
            link.setAttribute("href", encodedUri);
            link.setAttribute("download", "your_filename.csv");
            document.body.appendChild(link); // Required for FF

            link.click();
        });

I added to Xavier Johns function to also include the field headers if needed, uses jQuery though. The $.each bit will need changing for a native javascript loop

function exportToCsv(filename, rows, headers = false) {
    var processRow = function (row) {
        row = $.map(row, function(value, index) {
            return [value];
        });
        var finalVal = '';
        for (var j = 0; j < row.length; j++) {
            if(i == 0 && j == 0 && headers == true){
                var ii = 0;
                $.each(rows[i], function( index, value ) {
                    //console.log(index);
                    var fieldName = index === null ? '' : index.toString();
                    //console.log(fieldName);
                    var fieldResult = fieldName.replace(/"/g, '""');
                    //console.log(fieldResult);
                    if (fieldResult.search(/("|,|\n)/g) >= 0){
                        fieldResult = '"' + fieldResult + '"';
                    }
                    //console.log(fieldResult);
                    if (ii > 0){
                        finalVal += ',';
                        finalVal += fieldResult;
                    }else{
                        finalVal += fieldResult;
                    }
                    ii++;
                    //console.log(finalVal);
                });
                finalVal += '\n';
                //console.log('end: '+finalVal);
            }
            var innerValue = row[j] === null ? '' : row[j].toString();
            if (row[j] instanceof Date) {
                innerValue = row[j].toLocaleString();
            };
            var result = innerValue.replace(/"/g, '""');
            if (result.search(/("|,|\n)/g) >= 0){
                result = '"' + result + '"';
            }
            if (j > 0){
                finalVal += ',';
                finalVal += result;
            }else{
                finalVal += result;
            }
        }
        return finalVal + '\n';
    };
    var csvFile = '';
    for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
        csvFile += processRow(rows[i]);
    }
    var blob = new Blob([csvFile], { type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8;' });
    if (navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE 10+
        navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
    }else{
        var link = document.createElement("a");
        if (link.download !== undefined) { // feature detection
            // Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute
            var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
            link.setAttribute("href", url);
            link.setAttribute("download", filename);
            link.style.visibility = 'hidden';
            document.body.appendChild(link);
            link.click();
            document.body.removeChild(link);
        }
    }
}

This solution should work with Internet Explorer 10+, Edge, old and new versions of Chrome, FireFox, Safari, ++

The accepted answer won't work with IE and Safari.

// Example data given in question text_x000D_
var data = [_x000D_
  ['name1', 'city1', 'some other info'],_x000D_
  ['name2', 'city2', 'more info']_x000D_
];_x000D_
_x000D_
// Building the CSV from the Data two-dimensional array_x000D_
// Each column is separated by ";" and new line "\n" for next row_x000D_
var csvContent = '';_x000D_
data.forEach(function(infoArray, index) {_x000D_
  dataString = infoArray.join(';');_x000D_
  csvContent += index < data.length ? dataString + '\n' : dataString;_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
// The download function takes a CSV string, the filename and mimeType as parameters_x000D_
// Scroll/look down at the bottom of this snippet to see how download is called_x000D_
var download = function(content, fileName, mimeType) {_x000D_
  var a = document.createElement('a');_x000D_
  mimeType = mimeType || 'application/octet-stream';_x000D_
_x000D_
  if (navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE10_x000D_
    navigator.msSaveBlob(new Blob([content], {_x000D_
      type: mimeType_x000D_
    }), fileName);_x000D_
  } else if (URL && 'download' in a) { //html5 A[download]_x000D_
    a.href = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([content], {_x000D_
      type: mimeType_x000D_
    }));_x000D_
    a.setAttribute('download', fileName);_x000D_
    document.body.appendChild(a);_x000D_
    a.click();_x000D_
    document.body.removeChild(a);_x000D_
  } else {_x000D_
    location.href = 'data:application/octet-stream,' + encodeURIComponent(content); // only this mime type is supported_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
download(csvContent, 'dowload.csv', 'text/csv;encoding:utf-8');

Running the code snippet will download the mock data as csv

Credits to dandavis https://stackoverflow.com/a/16377813/1350598

Based on the answers above I created this function that I have tested on IE 11, Chrome 36 and Firefox 29

function exportToCsv(filename, rows) {
    var processRow = function (row) {
        var finalVal = '';
        for (var j = 0; j < row.length; j++) {
            var innerValue = row[j] === null ? '' : row[j].toString();
            if (row[j] instanceof Date) {
                innerValue = row[j].toLocaleString();
            };
            var result = innerValue.replace(/"/g, '""');
            if (result.search(/("|,|\n)/g) >= 0)
                result = '"' + result + '"';
            if (j > 0)
                finalVal += ',';
            finalVal += result;
        }
        return finalVal + '\n';
    };

    var csvFile = '';
    for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
        csvFile += processRow(rows[i]);
    }

    var blob = new Blob([csvFile], { type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8;' });
    if (navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE 10+
        navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
    } else {
        var link = document.createElement("a");
        if (link.download !== undefined) { // feature detection
            // Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute
            var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
            link.setAttribute("href", url);
            link.setAttribute("download", filename);
            link.style.visibility = 'hidden';
            document.body.appendChild(link);
            link.click();
            document.body.removeChild(link);
        }
    }
}

For example: https://jsfiddle.net/jossef/m3rrLzk0/

Old question with many good answers, but here is another simple option that relies on two popular libraries to get it done. Some answers mention Papa Parse but roll their own solution for the download part. Combining Papa Parse and FileSaver.js, you can try the following:

const dataString = Papa.unparse(data, config);
const blob = new Blob([dataString], { type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8' });
FileSaver.saveAs(blob, 'myfile.csv');

The config options for unparse are described here.

In case anyone needs this for knockout js, it works ok with basically the proposed solution:

html:

<a data-bind="attr: {download: filename, href: csvContent}">Download</a>

view model:

// for the download link
this.filename = ko.computed(function () {
    return ko.unwrap(this.id) + '.csv';
}, this);
this.csvContent = ko.computed(function () {
    if (!this.csvLink) {
        var data = ko.unwrap(this.data),
            ret = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,';

        ret += data.map(function (row) {
            return row.join(',');
        }).join('\n');

        return encodeURI(ret);
    }
}, this);

You can use the below piece of code to export array to CSV file using Javascript.

This handles special characters part as well

var arrayContent = [["Séjour 1, é,í,ú,ü,u"],["Séjour 2, é,í,ú,ü,u"]];
var csvContent = arrayContent.join("\n");
var link = window.document.createElement("a");
link.setAttribute("href", "data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,%EF%BB%BF" + encodeURI(csvContent));
link.setAttribute("download", "upload_data.csv");
link.click(); 

Here is the link to working jsfiddle

The answers above work, but keep in mind that if you are opening up in the .xls format, columns ~~might~~ be separated by '\t' instead of ',', the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/14966131/6169225 worked well for me, so long as I used .join('\t') on the arrays instead of .join(',').

From react-admin:

function downloadCsv(csv, filename) {
    const fakeLink = document.createElement('a');
    fakeLink.style.display = 'none';
    document.body.appendChild(fakeLink);
    const blob = new Blob([csv], { type: 'text/csv' });
    if (window.navigator && window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
        // Manage IE11+ & Edge
        window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, `${filename}.csv`);
    } else {
        fakeLink.setAttribute('href', URL.createObjectURL(blob));
        fakeLink.setAttribute('download', `${filename}.csv`);
        fakeLink.click();
    }
};

downloadCsv('Hello World', 'any-file-name.csv');

There you go :

<!doctype html>  
<html>  
<head></head>  
<body>
<a href='#' onclick='downloadCSV({ filename: "stock-data.csv" });'>Download CSV</a>

<script type="text/javascript">  
    var stockData = [
        {
            Symbol: "AAPL",
            Company: "Apple Inc.",
            Price: "132.54"
        },
        {
            Symbol: "INTC",
            Company: "Intel Corporation",
            Price: "33.45"
        },
        {
            Symbol: "GOOG",
            Company: "Google Inc",
            Price: "554.52"
        },
    ];

    function convertArrayOfObjectsToCSV(args) {
        var result, ctr, keys, columnDelimiter, lineDelimiter, data;

        data = args.data || null;
        if (data == null || !data.length) {
            return null;
        }

        columnDelimiter = args.columnDelimiter || ',';
        lineDelimiter = args.lineDelimiter || '\n';

        keys = Object.keys(data[0]);

        result = '';
        result += keys.join(columnDelimiter);
        result += lineDelimiter;

        data.forEach(function(item) {
            ctr = 0;
            keys.forEach(function(key) {
                if (ctr > 0) result += columnDelimiter;

                result += item[key];
                ctr++;
            });
            result += lineDelimiter;
        });

        return result;
    }

    window.downloadCSV = function(args) {
        var data, filename, link;

        var csv = convertArrayOfObjectsToCSV({
            data: stockData
        });
        if (csv == null) return;

        filename = args.filename || 'export.csv';

        if (!csv.match(/^data:text\/csv/i)) {
            csv = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,' + csv;
        }
        data = encodeURI(csv);

        link = document.createElement('a');
        link.setAttribute('href', data);
        link.setAttribute('download', filename);
        document.body.appendChild(link);
        link.click();
        document.body.removeChild(link);
       }
</script>  
</body>  
</html>  

A lot of roll-your-own solutions here for converting data to CSV, but just about all of them will have various caveats in terms of the type of data they will correctly format without tripping up Excel or the likes.

Why not use something proven: Papa Parse

Papa.unparse(data[, config])

Then just combine this with one of the local download solutions here eg. the one by @ArneHB looks good.

Create a blob with the csv data .ie var blob = new Blob([data], type:"text/csv");

If the browser supports saving of blobs i.e if window.navigator.mSaveOrOpenBlob)===true, then save the csv data using: window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, 'filename.csv')

If the browser doesn't support saving and opening of blobs, then save csv data as:

var downloadLink = document.createElement('<a></a>');
downloadLink.attr('href', window.URL.createObjectURL(blob));
downloadLink.attr('download', filename);
downloadLink.attr('target', '_blank');
document.body.append(downloadLink);

Full Code snippet:

var filename = 'data_'+(new Date()).getTime()+'.csv';
var charset = "utf-8";
var blob = new Blob([data], {
     type: "text/csv;charset="+ charset + ";"
});
if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
     window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
} else {
    var downloadLink = document.element('<a></a>');
    downloadLink.attr('href', window.URL.createObjectURL(blob));
    downloadLink.attr('download', filename);
    downloadLink.attr('target', '_blank');  
    document.body.append(downloadLink); 
    downloadLink[0].click(); 
}

I would recommend using a library like PapaParse: https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse

The accepted answer currently has multiple issues including:

• it fails if the data contains a comma
• it fails if the data contains a linebreak
• it (kind of) fails if the data contains a quotation mark

In Chrome 35 update, download attribute behavior was changed.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=373182

to work this in chrome, use this

var pom = document.createElement('a');
var csvContent=csv; //here we load our csv data 
var blob = new Blob([csvContent],{type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8;'});
var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
pom.href = url;
pom.setAttribute('download', 'foo.csv');
pom.click();

Here's how I download CSV files on the client side in my Java GWT application. Special thanks to Xavier John for his solution. It's been verified to work in FF 24.6.0, IE 11.0.20, and Chrome 45.0.2454.99 (64-bit). I hope this saves someone a bit of time:

public class ExportFile 
{

    private static final String CRLF = "\r\n";

    public static void exportAsCsv(String filename, List<List<String>> data) 
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for(List<String> row : data) 
        {
            for(int i=0; i<row.size(); i++)
            {
                if(i>0) sb.append(",");
                sb.append(row.get(i));
            }
            sb.append(CRLF);
        }

        generateCsv(filename, sb.toString());
    }

    private static native void generateCsv(String filename, String text)
    /*-{
        var blob = new Blob([text], { type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8;' });

        if (navigator.msSaveBlob) // IE 10+
        { 
            navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
        } 
        else 
        {
            var link = document.createElement("a");
            if (link.download !== undefined) // feature detection
            { 
                // Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute
                var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
                link.setAttribute("href", url);
                link.setAttribute("download", filename);
                link.style.visibility = 'hidden';
                document.body.appendChild(link);
                link.click();
                document.body.removeChild(link);
            }
        }
    }-*/;
}

Download CSV File

  let csvContent = "data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,";
  rows.forEach(function (rowArray) {
    for (var i = 0, len = rowArray.length; i < len; i++) {
      if (typeof (rowArray[i]) == 'string')
        rowArray[i] = rowArray[i].replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm, '');
      rowArray[i] = rowArray[i].replace(/,/g, '');
    }

    let row = rowArray.join(",");
    csvContent += row + "\r\n"; // add carriage return
  });
  var encodedUri = encodeURI(csvContent);
  var link = document.createElement("a");
  link.setAttribute("href", encodedUri);
  link.setAttribute("download", "fileName.csv");
  document.body.appendChild(link);
  link.click();

One arrow function with ES6 :

const dataToCsvURI = (data) => encodeURI(
`data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,${data.map((row, index) =>  row.join(',')).join(`\n`)}`
);

Then :

window.open(
  dataToCsvURI(
   [["name1", "city_name1"/*, ...*/], ["name2", "city_name2"/*, ...*/]]
  )
);

In case anyone needs this for reactjs, react-csv is there for that

//It work in Chrome and IE ... I reviewed and readed a lot of answer. then i used it and tested in both ... 

var link = document.createElement("a");

if (link.download !== undefined) { // feature detection
    // Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute
    var blob = new Blob([CSV], { type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8;' });
    var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);            
    link.setAttribute("href", url);
    link.setAttribute("download", fileName);
    link.style = "visibility:hidden";
}

if (navigator.msSaveBlob) { // IE 10+
   link.addEventListener("click", function (event) {
     var blob = new Blob([CSV], {
       "type": "text/csv;charset=utf-8;"
     });
   navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, fileName);
  }, false);
}

document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);

//Regards

There are two questions here:

1. How to convert an array to csv string
2. How to save that string to a file

All the answers to the first question (except the one by Milimetric) here seem like an overkill. And the one by Milimetric does not cover altrenative requirements, like surrounding strings with quotes or converting arrays of objects.

Here are my takes on this:

For a simple csv one map() and a join() are enough:

    var test_array = [["name1", 2, 3], ["name2", 4, 5], ["name3", 6, 7], ["name4", 8, 9], ["name5", 10, 11]];
    var csv = test_array.map(function(d){
        return d.join();
    }).join('\n');

    /* Results in 
    name1,2,3
    name2,4,5
    name3,6,7
    name4,8,9
    name5,10,11

This method also allows you to specify column separator other than a comma in the inner join. for example a tab: d.join('\t')

On the other hand if you want to do it properly and enclose strings in quotes "", then you can use some JSON magic:

var csv = test_array.map(function(d){
       return JSON.stringify(d);
    })
    .join('\n') 
    .replace(/(^\[)|(\]$)/mg, ''); // remove opening [ and closing ]
                                   // brackets from each line 

/* would produce
"name1",2,3
"name2",4,5
"name3",6,7
"name4",8,9
"name5",10,11

if you have array of objects like :

var data = [
  {"title": "Book title 1", "author": "Name1 Surname1"},
  {"title": "Book title 2", "author": "Name2 Surname2"},
  {"title": "Book title 3", "author": "Name3 Surname3"},
  {"title": "Book title 4", "author": "Name4 Surname4"}
];

// use
var csv = data.map(function(d){
        return JSON.stringify(Object.values(d));
    })
    .join('\n') 
    .replace(/(^\[)|(\]$)/mg, '');

Here's an Angular friendly version:

  constructor(private location: Location, private renderer: Renderer2) {}

  download(content, fileName, mimeType) {

    const a = this.renderer.createElement('a');

    mimeType = mimeType || 'application/octet-stream';

    if (navigator.msSaveBlob) {

      navigator.msSaveBlob(new Blob([content], {
        type: mimeType
      }), fileName);
    }
    else if (URL && 'download' in a) {

      const id = GetUniqueID();

      this.renderer.setAttribute(a, 'id', id);
      this.renderer.setAttribute(a, 'href', URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([content], {
        type: mimeType
      })));

      this.renderer.setAttribute(a, 'download', fileName);

      this.renderer.appendChild(document.body, a);

      const anchor = this.renderer.selectRootElement(`#${id}`);

      anchor.click();

      this.renderer.removeChild(document.body, a);
    }
    else {
      this.location.go(`data:application/octet-stream,${encodeURIComponent(content)}`);
    }
  };

Simply try this, some of the answers here are not handling unicode data and data that has comma for example date.

function downloadUnicodeCSV(filename, datasource) {
    var content = '', newLine = '\r\n';
    for (var _i = 0, datasource_1 = datasource; _i < datasource_1.length; _i++) {
        var line = datasource_1[_i];
        var i = 0;
        for (var _a = 0, line_1 = line; _a < line_1.length; _a++) {
            var item = line_1[_a];
            var it = item.replace(/"/g, '""');
            if (it.search(/("|,|\n)/g) >= 0) {
                it = '"' + it + '"';
            }
            content += (i > 0 ? ',' : '') + it;
            ++i;
        }
        content += newLine;
    }
    var link = document.createElement('a');
    link.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,%EF%BB%BF' + encodeURIComponent(content));
    link.setAttribute('download', filename);
    link.style.visibility = 'hidden';
    document.body.appendChild(link);
    link.click();
    document.body.removeChild(link);
};

If you are looking for a really quick solution you can also give a chance to this small library which will create and download CSV file for you: https://github.com/mbrn/filefy

Usage is very simple:

import { CsvBuilder } from 'filefy';

var csvBuilder = new CsvBuilder("user_list.csv")
  .setColumns(["name", "surname"])
  .addRow(["Eve", "Holt"])
  .addRows([
    ["Charles", "Morris"],
    ["Tracey", "Ramos"]
  ])
  .exportFile();