Supported File Formats

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This section contains information on the fie formats and compression schemes that are supported for input to and output of Trifacta® Wrangler. 

Native Input File Formats

Trifacta® Wrangler can read and import directly these file formats:

• Excel (XLS/XLSX)

  Tip: You may import multiple worksheets from a single workbook at one time. See Import Excel Data.

• CSV

• JSON, including nested

  NOTE: Trifacta Wrangler requires that JSON files be submitted with one valid JSON object per line. Consistently malformed JSON objects or objects that overlap linebreaks might cause import to fail. See Initial Parsing Steps.

• Plain Text
• LOG
• TSV

• Parquet

  NOTE: When working with datasets sourced from Parquet files, lineage information and the $sourcerownumber reference are not supported.

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  XML

  NOTE: XML files can be ingested as unstructured text. XML support is not enabled by default. For more information, please contact Trifacta Customer Success Services.

• Avro

For more information on data is handled initially, see Initial Parsing Steps.

Native Output File Formats

Trifacta Wrangler can write to these file formats:

• CSV
• JSON

Compression Algorithms

Read Native File Formats

Write Native File Formats

Compression is not supported for outputs in Trifacta Wrangler.