Import & auto-detect

Bring data in from anywhere — Pandia detects the format and converts it to JSON, so you can start exploring straight away.

Ways to open

There are four ways to get a document into Pandia, all from the start screen:

• Paste into the start screen's box — Pandia auto-detects as you type.
• Drag and drop a file anywhere onto the window.
• Open a file from disk.
• Fetch from a URL — and add request headers if the endpoint needs them.

Your recent files (pin and search them) and a load demo data option are on the start screen too, so you always have something to open.

Auto-detect & convert

Pandia detects and converts JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, and cURL commands. JSON comes through unchanged; the other four are converted to JSON for you.

For example, paste a curl command and Pandia pulls out the request and parses its JSON body:

# paste this into the start screen box
curl -X POST https://api.example.com/users \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Ada","active":true}'

Pandia tokenizes the command and gives you a JSON document with the URL, method, headers and the parsed body:

{
  "url": "https://api.example.com/users",
  "method": "POST",
  "headers": { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  "body": { "name": "Ada", "active": true }
}

A note on JSON variants

Next steps

Once your data is in, read it five ways in Views, or send it back out with Export.

Related — browse all JSON converters.