Whats the simplest way to export couchdb information to CSV

Question

What would be the simplest way to export a couchdb database of documents (identical structure) to CSV?

I'm guessing it would involve writing a view and manually parsing each document serially using something like PHP/C#/Python. But is there a simpler way or something already existing I can make use of?

Answer 1

You should be able to generate the CSV directly from CouchDB, i.e. without PHP/C#/Python, using a list function. See http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Formatting_with_Show_and_List and http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/transforming.html for more information.