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wireservice/csvkit

A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/wireservice/csvkit · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) 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

Full methodology

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

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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