Use Nutrient DWS Processor API to render XLSX spreadsheets as WebP images. Start free with 50 monthly credits and watermarked output. Enable pay-as-you-go or choose a paid plan for watermark-free output.
Render XLSX files as WebP images for thumbnails, previews, and sharing — no Office license required.
Use REST, Postman, curl, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or HTTP to automate conversion inside larger document processing pipelines.
This conversion is one action in the DWS Processor API. Combine it with other conversions, OCR, extraction, and editing in a single request.
Convert XLSX spreadsheets into lightweight WebP images using our XLSX-to-WebP API.
Try it out in three steps
document.xlsx to your project folder.image.webp to see the output.curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o image.webp \ --fail \ -F document=@document.xlsx \ -F instructions='{ "parts": [ { "file": "document" } ], "output": { "type": "image", "format": "webp", "dpi": 500 } }'curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o image.webp ^ --fail ^ -F document=@document.xlsx ^ -F instructions="{\"parts\": [{\"file\": \"document\"}], \"output\": {\"type\": \"image\", \"format\": \"webp\", \"dpi\": 500}}"package com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final RequestBody body = new MultipartBody.Builder() .setType(MultipartBody.FORM) .addFormDataPart( "document", "document.xlsx", RequestBody.create( MediaType.parse("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet"), new File("document.xlsx") ) ) .addFormDataPart( "instructions", new JSONObject() .put("parts", new JSONArray() .put(new JSONObject() .put("file", "document") ) ) .put("output", new JSONObject() .put("type", "image") .put("format", "webp") .put("dpi", 500) ).toString() ) .build();
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/build") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("image.webp"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/build");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("document", "document.xlsx") .AddParameter("instructions", new JsonObject { ["parts"] = new JsonArray { new JsonObject { ["file"] = "document" } }, ["output"] = new JsonObject { ["type"] = "image", ["format"] = "webp", ["dpi"] = 500 } }.ToString());
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("image.webp"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const formData = new FormData()formData.append('instructions', JSON.stringify({ parts: [ { file: "document" } ], output: { type: "image", format: "webp", dpi: 500 }}))formData.append('document', fs.createReadStream('document.xlsx'))
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/build', formData, { headers: formData.getHeaders({ 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }), responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("image.webp")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, files = { 'document': open('document.xlsx', 'rb') }, data = { 'instructions': json.dumps({ 'parts': [ { 'file': 'document' } ], 'output': { 'type': 'image', 'format': 'webp', 'dpi': 500 } }) }, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('image.webp', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('image.webp', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array( 'instructions' => '{ "parts": [ { "file": "document" } ], "output": { "type": "image", "format": "webp", "dpi": 500 } }', 'document' => new CURLFILE('document.xlsx') ), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/build HTTP/1.1Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--customboundaryAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="instructions"Content-Type: application/json
{ "parts": [ { "file": "document" } ], "output": { "type": "image", "format": "webp", "dpi": 500 }}--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="document"; filename="document.xlsx"Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
(document data)--customboundary--Most common next steps
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An XLSX-to-WebP API renders Excel spreadsheets as WebP images with a single API call. With Nutrient’s DWS Processor API, you can turn XLSX sheets into web-ready images without installing Microsoft Excel.
Send your XLSX file to the DWS Processor API and it returns WebP output. Follow the getting started guide for API key setup, or make a first request from the Postman collection.
WebP typically produces smaller files than PNG or JPG at comparable quality, which keeps spreadsheet previews and thumbnails fast to load on the web. If you need a different output format, the Excel-to-image API covers the other image formats.
Yes. Sign up to receive 50 free processing credits per month and try the XLSX-to-WebP API before choosing a Processor API plan.
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