parquetscraper v0.0.2

Parquet Scraper

Simple command line tool to read .parquet files

Installation

Install a current version of Node.js. Then run...

npm install -g parquetscraper

Usage

parquetscraper [command] [filename] [options]

Available commands

• read: Read file contents.
• schema: Get parquet schema.
• rows: Get number of contained rows.

Results are printed to the console by default if the --export option isn't used.

Available options

• --export: Write extracted JSON to a file (only read and schema commands).
• --from=[index]: Start reading rows at the given index (only read command).
• --to=[index]: Read rows until the given index (only read command).

Examples

# Read a parquet file and export its contents to a JSON file.
parquetscraper read path/to/file.parquet --export

# Read a parquet file and print a subset of the contents to the console.
parquetscraper read path/to/file.parquet --from=42 --to=84

# Get the schema of a parquet file and write it to a JSON file.
parquetscraper schema path/to/file.parquet --export

# Get the number of rows contained in the parquet file and print it to the console.
parquetscraper rows path/to/file.parquet