wireservice/csvkit

A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

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csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

It is inspired by pdftk, GDAL and the original csvcut tool by Joe Germuska and Aaron Bycoffe.

Important links:

* Documentation: https://csvkit.rtfd.org/
* Repository:    https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
* Issues:        https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit/issues
* Schemas:       https://github.com/wireservice/ffs

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csvkit

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2.2.0 · Dec 15, 2025

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Jiangwen Su

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