diff --git a/api/controllers/console/datasets/file.py b/api/controllers/console/datasets/file.py
index 75aba5e9eb..f12c372721 100644
--- a/api/controllers/console/datasets/file.py
+++ b/api/controllers/console/datasets/file.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from controllers.console.setup import setup_required
 from controllers.console.wraps import account_initialization_required
 from core.index.readers.html_parser import HTMLParser
 from core.index.readers.pdf_parser import PDFParser
+from core.index.readers.xlsx_parser import XLSXParser
 from extensions.ext_storage import storage
 from libs.helper import TimestampField
 from extensions.ext_database import db
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ from models.model import UploadFile
 cache = TTLCache(maxsize=None, ttl=30)
 
 FILE_SIZE_LIMIT = 15 * 1024 * 1024  # 15MB
-ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = ['txt', 'markdown', 'md', 'pdf', 'html', 'htm']
+ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = ['txt', 'markdown', 'md', 'pdf', 'html', 'htm', 'xlsx']
 PREVIEW_WORDS_LIMIT = 3000
 
 
@@ -133,6 +134,9 @@ class FilePreviewApi(Resource):
                 # Use BeautifulSoup to extract text
                 parser = HTMLParser()
                 text = parser.parse_file(Path(filepath))
+            elif extension == 'xlsx':
+                parser = XLSXParser()
+                text = parser.parse_file(filepath)
             else:
                 # ['txt', 'markdown', 'md']
                 with open(filepath, "rb") as fp:
diff --git a/api/core/index/readers/xlsx_parser.py b/api/core/index/readers/xlsx_parser.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..28fd249add
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/core/index/readers/xlsx_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+import json
+from typing import Dict
+from openpyxl import load_workbook
+
+from llama_index.readers.file.base_parser import BaseParser
+from flask import current_app
+
+
+class XLSXParser(BaseParser):
+    """XLSX parser."""
+
+    def _init_parser(self) -> Dict:
+        """Init parser"""
+        return {}
+
+    def parse_file(self, file: Path, errors: str = "ignore") -> str:
+        data = []
+        keys = []
+        with open(file, "r") as fp:
+            wb = load_workbook(filename=file, read_only=True)
+            # loop over all sheets
+            for sheet in wb:
+                for row in sheet.iter_rows(values_only=True):
+                    if all(v is None for v in row):
+                        continue
+                    if keys == []:
+                        keys = row
+                    else:
+                        data.append(json.dumps(dict(zip(keys, row)), ensure_ascii=False))
+        return data
diff --git a/api/core/indexing_runner.py b/api/core/indexing_runner.py
index 23e87bb1ec..17ae53a907 100644
--- a/api/core/indexing_runner.py
+++ b/api/core/indexing_runner.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ from llama_index.data_structs import Node
 from llama_index.data_structs.node_v2 import DocumentRelationship
 from llama_index.node_parser import SimpleNodeParser, NodeParser
 from llama_index.readers.file.base import DEFAULT_FILE_EXTRACTOR
+from llama_index.readers.file.markdown_parser import MarkdownParser
+from core.index.readers.xlsx_parser import XLSXParser
 from core.docstore.dataset_docstore import DatesetDocumentStore
 from core.index.keyword_table_index import KeywordTableIndex
 from core.index.readers.html_parser import HTMLParser
@@ -250,6 +252,7 @@ class IndexingRunner:
             file_extractor[".html"] = HTMLParser()
             file_extractor[".htm"] = HTMLParser()
             file_extractor[".pdf"] = PDFParser({'upload_file': upload_file})
+            file_extractor[".xlsx"] = XLSXParser()
 
             loader = SimpleDirectoryReader(input_files=[filepath], file_extractor=file_extractor)
             text_docs = loader.load_data()
diff --git a/api/requirements.txt b/api/requirements.txt
index 511625ccfd..4e04ce5921 100644
--- a/api/requirements.txt
+++ b/api/requirements.txt
@@ -29,4 +29,5 @@ sentry-sdk[flask]~=1.21.1
 jieba==0.42.1
 celery==5.2.7
 redis~=4.5.4
-pypdf==3.8.1
\ No newline at end of file
+pypdf==3.8.1
+openpyxl==3.1.2
\ No newline at end of file