2 MB TSV sample
A TSV file of exactly 2,097,152 bytes. It is a valid Tab-separated values file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 2 MB sample, test or dummy TSV file.
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sample-tsv-2mb.tsv
2 MB2,097,152 bytes
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- Type
- text/tab-separated-values
- SHA-256
5f284312e19e7d7ee4ce6c2343bd4b85bcefc9b9fcf0d80e187e40c78c41ea10- Delivery
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What is in this file
A header row and 15,788 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns, with no quoting. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.
| Data rows | 15,788 |
|---|---|
| Columns | 12 |
| Delimiter | Tab |
| Header row | Yes |
| Line endings | LF |
| Quoting | None: no field contains a tab or a line break |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-tsv-2mb.tsv, exactly as they appear in the file.
00000000 69 64 09 66 69 72 73 74 5f 6e 61 6d 65 09 6c 61 |id.first_name.la|
00000010 73 74 5f 6e 61 6d 65 09 65 6d 61 69 6c 09 70 68 |st_name.email.ph|
00000020 6f 6e 65 09 63 69 74 79 09 63 6f 75 6e 74 72 79 |one.city.country|
00000030 09 73 69 67 6e 75 70 5f 64 61 74 65 09 70 6c 61 |.signup_date.pla|Preview
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Where 2 MB matters
A 2,097,152-byte file: exactly the default upload limit of PHP, and twice the default of nginx and Spring Boot. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 2 MB per uploaded file by default (upload_max_filesize) | A file of exactly 2 MB is accepted; one byte more is refused. |
| nginx | 1 MB by default (client_max_body_size) | Rejected with 413 Request Entity Too Large. |
| Spring Boot multipart | 1 MB per file by default (max-file-size) | Rejected unless the property is raised. |
| Django | 2.5 MB in memory by default | 2 MB is held in memory; the 5 MB sample is streamed to a temporary file. |
| Vercel Functions | 4.5 MB request body | Accepted, including as base64 at about 2.8 MB. |
Use this file for
- Finding the first upload limit in a new stack
- Testing import features that accept more than one delimiter
- Checking delimiter detection
Testing notes for TSV
- Windows does not open .tsv in Excel by default, so users rename files to .txt or .csv, and the extension stops describing the content.
- A field cannot contain a tab or a line break. Exporters deal with that in incompatible ways: some write backslash escapes such as \t, some apply CSV-style quotation marks, and some corrupt the row.
Technical details
| File name | sample-tsv-2mb.tsv |
|---|---|
| Format | TSV (Tab-separated values) |
| Extension | .tsv |
| MIME type | text/tab-separated-values |
| Size | 2,097,152 bytes (2 MB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | 5f284312e19e7d7ee4ce6c2343bd4b85bcefc9b9fcf0d80e187e40c78c41ea10 |
| Created | 2026-10-23 |
| Validation | See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility. |
| Preview | Available on this page |
| Source | Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere |
| Licence | Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms) |
| Category | Spreadsheets |
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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 2 MB?
- Yes. It is 2,097,152 bytes, which is 2 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 2 MB TSV file?
- A header row and 15,788 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns, with no quoting. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.
- Do the TSV samples use quotation marks?
- No. No field contains a tab, a line break or a quotation mark, so the files read the same way under every TSV convention.