Awesome CSV 
A carefully curated list of CSV-related tools and
resources
CSV
remains the most futuristic data format from the distant past.
XML has risen and fallen. JSON is just a flash in the pan. YAML is a
poisoned chalice. CSV will outlast them all.
When the final cockroach breathes her last breath, her dying act will
be to scratch her date of death in a CSV file for posterity.
Contents
Here are some awesome tools for dealing with CSV:
- NimbleText/Live - Use
patterns to manipulate CSV; the world’s simplest code generator *.
- PapaParse - A powerful
in-browser CSV parser.
- d3-dsv - d3.js parser and
formatter module for delimiter-separated values.
- CSVKit - CSV utilities
that includes csvsql / csvgrep / csvstat and more.
- QSV - A fast CSV
command-line toolkit written in Rust, (an update to xsv).
- sed (gnu
tool) - Stream editor.
- gawk
(gnu tool) - Text processing and data extraction using awk.
- awk
by example - Comprehensive examples of using awk.
- Miller - Like sed /
awk / cut / join / sort etc for name-indexed data such as CSV.
- ParaText - CSV
parsing at 2.5 GB per second.
- CSVGet - Get
structured data from sites as CSV.
- CSVfix - A tool for
manipulating CSV data.
- Tad - A fast free
cross-platform CSV viewer.
- Nvd3-tags
- A tiny library for making charts from csv data.
- Powershell:
Import-CSV - Powerful in-built facility for dealing with CSV (example).
- CSV Tools - A collection
of useful CSV utilities.
- graph-cli -
Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data.
- CSV to SQL -
Online tool to create insert/update/delete etc from CSV data.
- C#:
kbCSV - An efficient, easy to use .NET parsing and writing library
for CSV.
- csvprintf -
UNIX command line utility for parsing and formatting output based on CSV
files.
- Ron’s Data
Edit (new modern version of Ron’s CSV
Editor) - Handles big files, does miraculous things. A timeless
editor for a timeless format.
- Rainbow
CSV plugins - Collection of text editor plugins for CSV/TSV syntax
highlighting. Available for Vim, VS
Code, Atom, Sublime Text
and other editors.
- ExtendsClass -
A simple CSV comparator.
- Mighty Merge - join/union csv
files.
- Modern CSV - A tool for
editing CSV files and viewing large files.
- Data
Wrangler - Data Wrangler is a code-centric data cleaning tool that
is integrated into VS Code and VS Code Jupyter Notebooks.
Repair or Validate CSV
- Csvlint.go - Command
line tool for validating CSV files against RFC 4180.
- csvstudio - A smart app to
repair syntax errors in very large CSV files.
- scrubcsv -
Remove bad records from a CSV file and normalize (requires rust)
- reconcile-csv
- Find relationships between a set of related CSVs
Generate Table Schema
- CSV Schema — Analyzes a
CSV file and generates database table schema, all within the
browser
- Wanted: More tools in this category.
Treat CSV as SQL
- TextQL - Execute SQL
against CSV or TSV.
- Datasette
Facets - Faceted browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite
DB.
- q - Run SQL Directly on
CSV Files
- RBQL - Rainbow Query Language, a
SQL-like language with JavaScript or Python backend.
- PSKit Query
— Powershell module lets you run simple queries over objects, including
imported with csv
Convert to or from CSV
- CSV to Table
- Convert CSV files to searchable and sortable HTML table.
CSV <-> JSON
- Agnes -
Two way Csv to Json **.
- csv2json - online
tool to convert your CSV or TSV formatted data to JSON and vice versa.
- csv-to-json -
Easy, privacy-friendly and offline-first online csv to json
converter.
Essays
Once you’ve found the perfect data serialization file format, you
stop looking
David
Wengier
Generate Data
- Fake Name
Generator - Generate fake names with other identity data in bulk for
testing.
- Mockium - Test data
generator for CSV / JSON / SQL / XML.
- Mockaroo - Random data
generator for CSV / JSON / SQL / Excel.
Data
Conferences
- csv,conf - A community conference
for data makers everywhere.
Standards
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them
to choose from.
—(Possibly) Grace Hopper.
- structured-text-tools
- List of command line tools for manipulating CSV / XML / HTML / JSON /
INI etc.
- META-META
- This list as CSV.
- META-META-META
- A NimbleText pattern that produces this markdown page from this list
as a CSV.
Code of Conduct
See Code of Conduct
Funtribute
To experience the fun of contributing, see Contributing
* I’m the author of NimbleText. Of course I put it
first on the list. If I didn’t personally rate it I wouldn’t have spent
so much time making and improving it.
** I wrote
agnes but don’t particularly endorse it for others to use
(thus haven’t migrated the source code to GitHub). It’s slow and
non-streaming. I’d go with papa-parse. On the plus side,
agnes has a more comprehensive test suite and simpler api
than most.
*** Mine too.
License
To the extent possible under law, Leon Bambrick has waived all copyright
and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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