Quick Start Guide

Build a flow that reads a CSV, keeps only the rows you want, and exports the result. Five steps, about five minutes.

This guide assumes you have a FileBender account. If you don’t, sign up at filebender.com — it’s free to start.

1. Create a flow

From your dashboard, click Create Flow. You land in the canvas with a single empty flow titled “Untitled Flow”. Rename it now if you like — the title input is focused for you.

2. Add a CSV input

Open the transform library (the panel on the left, or press Cmd+B) and drag a CSV Input node onto the canvas. CSV Input is in the Input category — its left border is blue.

3. Drop in a CSV file

Drag a CSV file from your computer onto the CSV Input node. FileBender parses it locally — no upload — and shows the schema and a preview underneath. If the parser detects a quoting or delimiter issue, you can adjust it in the node’s config dialog (click the gear icon).

4. Filter rows

Drag a Filter Rows node from the transform library onto the canvas, then drag a connection from the CSV Input’s source handle to the Filter Rows’ target handle. Double-click the Filter Rows node to open its settings and add a condition — for example, status equals active.

Click Save Changes and run the flow. The preview updates to show only matching rows.

5. Export the result

Drag a CSV Output node onto the canvas, connect Filter Rows to it, and click Run. When execution finishes, the output node shows a download card — click it to save the filtered CSV.

That’s it. You’ve built and run a flow.

Next steps

• Learn the vocabulary in Core Concepts — flows, nodes, handles, categories, the privacy model, the execution model.
• Walk through a longer realistic example in Building Your First Flow.
• Browse the Transforms reference for every transform’s options, examples, and edge cases.