parqeye lets you peek inside your Parquet files. Instantly inspect their contents, schema, and metadata — right from your terminal.
Features
- Interactive Data Visualization - Browse through your Parquet data in a table view with keyboard navigation.
- Schema Explorer - Inspect column types, nested structures, and field definitions.
- File Metadata - View Parquet file-level metadata including version, created by, encoding stats and more.
- Row Group Statistics - Examine row group-level metadata, statistics, and data distribution across groups.
- Tab-based Interface - Quickly switch between Visualize, Schema, Metadata, and Row Groups views.
- Terminal-native - Works directly in your terminal.
Run parqeye by providing the path to the .parquet file.
parqeye <path-to-parquet-file>
You can download the latest release from the Releases page.
You can build from source by downloading the repository and running the following command:
If you use Rust, build directly from crates.io
This package is released under the MIT License.
