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A carefully curated list of CSV-related tools and resources

CSV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values) 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

- Tools (#tools)
  - Repair or Validate CSV (#repair-or-validate-csv)
  - Treat CSV as SQL (#treat-csv-as-sql)
  - Convert to or from CSV (#convert-to-or-from-csv)
  - CSV  JSON (#csv---json)
- Essays (#essays)
- Data (#data)
- Conferences (#conferences)
- Standards (#standards)
- META: Other similar lists (#meta-other-similar-lists)
- Code of Conduct (#code-of-conduct)
- Funtribute (#funtribute)
- Footnotes (#footnotes)



Here are some awesome tools for dealing with CSV:

Tools

- NimbleText/Live (https://NimbleText.com/Live) - Use patterns to manipulate CSV; the world's simplest code generator .
- PapaParse (https://www.papaparse.com) - A powerful in-browser CSV parser.
- d3-dsv (https://github.com/d3/d3-dsv) - d3.js parser and formatter module for delimiter-separated values.
- CSVKit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/) - CSV utilities that includes csvsql / csvgrep / csvstat and more.
- XSV (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv) - A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust.
- sed (gnu tool) (https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html) - Stream editor.
- gawk (gnu tool) (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html) - Text processing and data extraction using awk (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html).
- awk by example (https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing/blob/master/gnu_awk.md#default-field-separation) - Comprehensive examples of using awk.
- Miller (http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/) - Like sed / awk / cut / join / sort etc for name-indexed data such as CSV.
- ParaText (https://github.com/wiseio/paratext) - CSV parsing at 2.5 GB per second.
- CSVGet (http://github.com/fizx/csvget/tree/master) - Get structured data from sites as CSV.
- CSVfix (https://code.google.com/p/csvfix/) - A tool for manipulating CSV data.
- Tad (https://www.tadviewer.com) - A fast free cross-platform CSV viewer.
- Nvd3-tags (http://blog.tryolabs.com/2015/02/27/nvd3-tags-a-tiny-library-for-making-charts-from-csv-data/) - A tiny library for making charts from csv data.
- Powershell: Import-CSV (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/import-csv) - Powerful in-built facility for dealing with CSV (example 
(https://gist.github.com/dfinke/786ba9edae1b0265ada10b36a7a11ba9)).
- CSV Tools (https://onlinecsvtools.com/) - A collection of useful CSV utilities.
- graph-cli (https://github.com/mcastorina/graph-cli) - Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data.
- CSV to SQL (http://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-sql.htm) - Online tool to create insert/update/delete etc from CSV data.
- C#: kbCSV (https://github.com/kentcb/KBCsv/blob/master/README.md) - An efficient, easy to use .NET parsing and writing library for CSV.
- csvprintf (https://github.com/archiecobbs/csvprintf) - UNIX command line utility for parsing and formatting output based on CSV files.
- Mockaroo (https://www.mockaroo.com/) - Random data generator for CSV / JSON / SQL / Excel.
- Ron's Data Edit (https://www.ronsplace.eu/Products/RonsDataEdit) (new modern version of Ron's CSV Editor (https://www.ronsplace.eu/products/ronseditor)) - Handles big files, does miraculous things. A timeless editor for a timeless 
format.
- Rainbow CSV plugins (https://github.com/mechatroner/rainbow_csv#rainbow-csv-in-other-editors) - Collection of text editor plugins for CSV/TSV syntax highlighting. Available for Vim (https://github.com/mechatroner/rainbow_csv), VS Code
(https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mechatroner.rainbow-csv), Atom (https://atom.io/packages/rainbow-csv), Sublime Text (https://packagecontrol.io/packages/rainbow_csv) and other editors.
- ExtendsClass (https://extendsclass.com/csv-diff.html) - A simple CSV comparator.
- Mighty Merge (https://mightymerge.io/) - join/union csv files.
- Modern CSV (https://www.moderncsv.com/) - A tool for editing CSV files and viewing large files.

Repair or Validate CSV

- Csvlint.go (https://github.com/Clever/csvlint) - Command line tool for validating CSV files against RFC 4180.
- csvstudio (http://www.csvstudio.com/) - A smart app to repair syntax errors in very large CSV files.
- scrubcsv (https://github.com/faradayio/scrubcsv) - Remove bad records from a CSV file and normalize (requires rust)
- reconcile-csv (https://github.com/OpenRefine/reconcile-csv/blob/master/README.md) - Find relationships between a set of related CSVs

Generate Table Schema

- CSV Schema (https://csv-schema.surge.sh/) — Analyzes a CSV file and generates database table schema, all within the browser
- Wanted: More tools in this category.


Treat CSV as SQL

- TextQL (http://dinedal.github.io/textql/) - Execute SQL against CSV or TSV.
- Datasette Facets (https://simonwillison.net/2018/May/20/datasette-facets/) - Faceted browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB.
- q (https://harelba.github.io/q/) - Run SQL Directly on CSV Files
- RBQL (https://rbql.org) - Rainbow Query Language, a SQL-like language with JavaScript or Python backend.
- PSKit Query (https://github.com/dfinke/PSKit#sql-query) — Powershell module lets you run simple queries over objects, including imported with csv

Convert to or from CSV

- CSV to Table (https://github.com/vividvilla/csvtotable) - Convert CSV files to searchable and sortable HTML table.

CSV  JSON

- Agnes (http://www.secretgeek.net/agnes/twoWay.html) - Two way Csv to Json .
- csv2json (https://www.csvjson.com/csv2json) - online tool to convert your CSV or TSV formatted data to JSON and vice versa (https://www.csvjson.com/json2csv).
- csv-to-json (https://mango-is.com/tools/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 (https://twitter.com/davidwengier/status/1159606464220000257)


- Thinking about CSV (https://blog.datacite.org/thinking-about-csv/) - Martin Fenner.
- In Praise of CSV (https://usopendata.org/2015/03/10/csv) - Waldo Jaquith.
- Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser! (http://www.secretgeek.net/csv_trouble) - Leon Bambrick .
- So You Want To Write Your Own CSV code? (http://thomasburette.com/blog/2014/05/25/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-CSV-code/) - Thomas Burette.
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About CSVs (https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-CSVs) - Jesse Donat.
- ASCII Delimited Text - Not CSV or TAB delimited text (https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/) - Ronald Duncan.

Data

- US Data.gov (https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?res_format=CSV) - 18789+ CSV datasets.
- Australian Government Open Data (https://data.gov.au/dataset?res_format=CSV) - 2715+ CSV datasets.
- Reference data in csv (https://datahub.io/collections/reference-data) - Easy-to-use reference data in CSV and JSON formats.
- awesome-public-datasets (https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets) - A topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains.
- United Nations data (https://data.un.org) - Data from the UN
- Fake Name Generator (https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/order.php) - Generate fake names with other identity data in bulk for testing.

Conferences

- csv,conf (https://csvconf.com/) - 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.

- RFC 4180 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180) (html version (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4180.html)) - "Common format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files".
  - Definition of the CSV Format (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-2)
  - MIME Type Registration of text/csv (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-3)
- W3C: Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web (https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-model/)
- CSV Schema Language (http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-schema/csv-schema-1.2.html) - A language for defining and validating CSV data.
- csv,specs (https://github.com/csvspecs) - Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Format Specifications (and Tests) incl. CSV v1.0, CSV v1.1, CSV Strict, CSV <3 Numerics, CSV<3 JSON, CSV <3 YAML.
- Tabular Data Resource (http://frictionlessdata.io/specs/tabular-data-resource/) - A Data Resource (http://frictionlessdata.io/specs/data-resource/) specialized for describing tabular data like CSV files or spreadsheets
- CSVY (https://csvy.org/) - A standard for adding a YAML header to CSV files to describe their format

META: Other similar lists

- structured-text-tools (https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools) - List of command line tools for manipulating CSV / XML / HTML / JSON / INI etc.
- META-META (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/secretGeek/AwesomeCSV/master/awesomecsv.csv) - This list as CSV.
- META-META-META (https://nimbletext.com/Live/-971009575/) - A NimbleText pattern that produces this markdown page from this list as a CSV.


Code of Conduct

See Code of Conduct (code-of-conduct.md)


Funtribute

To experience the fun of contributing, see Contributing (contributing.md)


Footnotes

*  I'm the author of NimbleText (https://NimbleText.com/Live). 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 really 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.

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