wireservice/csvkit
A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
75/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5633
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 30
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
6409 stars · 684 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
csvkit is a suite of Python-based command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV files. It includes utilities like csvcut, csvstat, and csvsql for inspecting, filtering, and transforming tabular data.
Use cases
- convert excel or files to csv from the command line
- inspect csv columns and compute summary statistics
- cut and filter columns from large csv files
- run sql queries against csv files
- clean up messy tabular data in shell pipelines
When to choose
- you work with csv data in a unix shell or scripts
- you need quick conversion between csv and other formats like , excel, or sql databases
- you want lightweight command-line tools instead of writing python scripts
When to avoid
- you need a full spreadsheet gui or interactive data exploration
- you require high-performance processing of massive files beyond csvkit's memory-friendly but slower pure-python approach
- you need a general-purpose etl orchestration framework
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
cli csv etl data-science files spreadsheets python cli cross-platform csv-tools command-line-utilities tabular-data data-conversion data-engineering command-line
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5298776e942f
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/csvkit/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 791c9b7e8511
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| wireservice/csvkit | main | 75 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="wireservice/csvkit")
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