csvkit 1.4.0#

About#

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csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

It is inspired by pdftk, GDAL and the original csvcut tool by Joe Germuska and Aaron Bycoffe.

Important links:

First time? See Tutorial.

Note

To change the field separator, line terminator, etc. of the output, you must use csvformat.

Note

csvkit, by default, sniffs CSV formats (it deduces whether commas, tabs or spaces delimit fields, for example) based on the first 1024 bytes, and performs type inference (it converts text to numbers, dates, booleans, etc.). These features are useful and work well in most cases, but occasional errors occur. If you don’t need these features, set --snifflimit 0 (-y 0) and --no-inference (-I).

Note

If you need to do more complex data analysis than csvkit can handle, use agate. If you need csvkit to be faster or to handle larger files, you may be reaching the limits of csvkit. Consider loading the data into SQL, or using qsv or xsv.

Note

Need to deduplicate or find fuzzy matches in your CSV data? Use csvdedupe and csvlink.

Why csvkit?#

Because it makes your life easier.

Convert Excel to CSV:

in2csv data.xls > data.csv

Convert JSON to CSV:

in2csv data.json > data.csv

Print column names:

csvcut -n data.csv

Select a subset of columns:

csvcut -c column_a,column_c data.csv > new.csv

Reorder columns:

csvcut -c column_c,column_a data.csv > new.csv

Find rows with matching cells:

csvgrep -c phone_number -r "555-555-\d{4}" data.csv > new.csv

Convert to JSON:

csvjson data.csv > data.json

Generate summary statistics:

csvstat data.csv

Query with SQL:

csvsql --query "select name from data where age > 30" data.csv > new.csv

Import into PostgreSQL:

csvsql --db postgresql:///database --insert data.csv

Extract data from PostgreSQL:

sql2csv --db postgresql:///database --query "select * from data" > new.csv

And much more…

Table of contents#

Citation#

When citing csvkit in publications, you may use this BibTeX entry:

@Manual{csvkit,
  title = "csvkit",
  author = "Christopher Groskopf and contributors",
  year = "2016",
  url = "https://csvkit.readthedocs.org/"
}

Authors#

The following individuals have contributed code to csvkit:

  • Christopher Groskopf

  • Joe Germuska

  • Aaron Bycoffe

  • Travis Mehlinger

  • Alejandro Companioni

  • Benjamin Wilson

  • Bryan Silverthorn

  • Evan Wheeler

  • Matt Bone

  • Ryan Pitts

  • Hari Dara

  • Jeff Larson

  • Jim Thaxton

  • Miguel Gonzalez

  • Anton Ian Sipos

  • Gregory Temchenko

  • Kevin Schaul

  • Marc Abramowitz

  • Noah Hoffman

  • Jan Schulz

  • Derek Wilson

  • Chris Rosenthal

  • Davide Setti

  • Gabi Davar

  • Sriram Karra

  • James McKinney

  • Aaron McMillin

  • Matt Dudys

  • Joakim Lundborg

  • Federico Scrinzi

  • Shane StClair

  • raistlin7447

  • Alex Dergachev

  • Jeff Paine

  • Jeroen Janssens

  • Sébastien Fievet

  • Travis Swicegood

  • Ryan Murphy

  • Diego Rabatone Oliveira

  • Matt Pettis

  • Tasneem Raja

  • Richard Low

  • Kristina Durivage

  • Espartaco Palma

  • pnaimoli

  • Michael Mior

  • Jennifer Smith

  • Antonio Lima

  • Dave Stanton

  • Pedrow

  • Neal McBurnett

  • Anthony DeBarros

  • Baptiste Mispelon

  • James Seppi

  • Karrie Kehoe

  • Geert Barentsen

  • Cathy Deng

  • Eric Bréchemier

  • Neil Freeman

  • Fede Isas

  • Patricia Lipp

  • Kev++

  • edwardros

  • Martin Burch

  • Pedro Silva

  • hydrosIII

  • Tim Wisniewski

  • Santiago Castro

  • Dan Davison

  • Éric Araujo

  • Sam Stuck

  • Edward Betts

  • Jake Zimmerman

  • Bryan Rankin

  • Przemek Wesołek

  • Karl Fogel

  • sterlingpetersen

  • kjedamzik

  • John Vandenberg

  • Olivier Lacan

  • Adrien Delessert

  • Ghislain Antony Vaillant

  • Forest Gregg

  • Aliaksei Urbanski

  • Reid Beels

  • Rodrigo Lemos

  • Victor Noagbodji

  • Connor McArthur

  • Matěj Cepl

  • Nicholas Matteo

  • Matt Giguere

  • Felix Bünemann

  • Andriy Orehov (Андрій Орєхов)

  • Dan Nguyen

  • 谭九鼎

  • Tomáš Hrnčiar

  • Christopher Bottoms

  • panolens

  • Gabe Walker

  • Gui13

  • Danny Sepler

  • Christian Clauss

  • Bonifacio de Oliveira

  • Ryan Grout

  • badbunnyyy

  • Werner Robitza

  • Mark Mayo

  • Kitagawa Yasutaka

  • rachekalmir

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