Render ASCII table API

Renders rows and optional headers into an aligned monospace ASCII box-drawing table with per-column alignment. Answers 'how do I print a clean ASCII table?', 'how do I align columns for terminal output?'.

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/text/ascii-table

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

textascii-tabletablerendermonospaceformattingclicolumns

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/text/ascii-table

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "headers": [
    "Name",
    "Age"
  ],
  "rows": [
    [
      "Alice",
      "30"
    ],
    [
      "Bob",
      "5"
    ]
  ]
}

Example response

{
  "table": "+-------+-----+\n| Name  | Age |\n+-------+-----+\n| Alice | 30  |\n| Bob   | 5   |\n+-------+-----+",
  "columns": 2,
  "columnWidths": [
    5,
    3
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "rows"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "headers": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "examples": [
        [
          "Name",
          "Age"
        ]
      ]
    },
    "rows": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "examples": [
        [
          [
            "Alice",
            "30"
          ],
          [
            "Bob",
            "5"
          ]
        ]
      ]
    },
    "align": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "l",
          "r",
          "c"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}