# rap2hpoutre/fast-excel

🦉 Fast Excel import/export for Laravel

Repository: https://github.com/rap2hpoutre/fast-excel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fast-excel
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: laravel, laravel-package, csv, xlsx, php, excel, fast, memory-efficiency, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-16T14:53:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3072, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 17, "gap_med": 10, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2321, forks 269 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.156610+00:00)

## What it is
A Laravel package for fast, memory-efficient import and export of Excel (xlsx, ods) and CSV files, built on top of Spout. It converts Eloquent models, queries, and collections to and from spreadsheet files with streaming to keep memory usage low.

## Use cases
- export laravel models to xlsx
- import excel file into laravel collection
- download csv from controller
- export large dataset to excel without running out of memory
- convert collection to spreadsheet file
- import csv with custom delimiter

## When to choose
- you need fast, low-memory Excel/CSV import or export in a Laravel app
- you want to stream large exports or downloads
- you need xlsx, ods, and csv support from one API

## When to avoid
- you need to style cells, formulas, or complex spreadsheet formatting
- you are not using Laravel or PHP
- you need to modify existing Excel files in place

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: serialization, file-system
- domain: web-development, files, spreadsheets
- platform: php
- tags: excel, xlsx, csv, ods, laravel-package, spout, memory-efficiency, import-export, laravel

## Member repositories
- rap2hpoutre/fast-excel (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.156610+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:38:47.660905+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rap2hpoutre/fast-excel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.156610+00:00, sha a8b1d83483f5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.