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Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#1

Post by kaushiksrini » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 11:45 PM UTC

I built a Rust-based CLI/terminal UI for inspecting Parquet files—data, metadata, and row-group-level structure—right from the terminal. If someone sent me a Parquet file, I used to open DuckDB or Polars just to see what was inside. Now I can do it with one command.

Repo: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye

Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files
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Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#2

Post by WorldPeas » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC

thank you so much! this was an annoyance of mine for so long. edit: any chance you make a brew package? if you'd like I'd be happy to PR it in.

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#3

Post by kaushiksrini » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 11:54 PM UTC

WorldPeas wrote: post #2

thank you so much! this was an annoyance of mine for so long. edit: any chance you make a brew package? if you'd like I'd be happy to PR it in.

yep! it’s available as a homebrew tap — you can install it with: `brew install kaushiksrini/parqeye/parqeye`

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#4

Post by WorldPeas » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

kaushiksrini wrote: post #3

WorldPeas wrote: post #2

thank you so much! this was an annoyance of mine for so long. edit: any chance you make a brew package? if you'd like I'd be happy to PR it in.

yep! it’s available as a homebrew tap — you can install it with: `brew install kaushiksrini/parqeye/parqeye`

wonderous.

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#5

Post by papers1010 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 1:23 AM UTC

It’s crazy how long we’ve gone without a tool like this. This is huge. Thank you for finally building this!

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#6

Post by lolive » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 1:32 AM UTC

Apart from some visual glitches, this is an INSTANT BUY !

Note: must the Windows binary really be 78MB ?

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#7

Post by lolive » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 1:34 AM UTC

Can DuckDB be included in the tool, so you can run queries directly from the UI? [that would avoid opening DBeaver whenever you need that kind of feature]

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#8

Post by lolive » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 1:47 AM UTC

lolive wrote: post #7

Can DuckDB be included in the tool, so you can run queries directly from the UI? [that would avoid opening DBeaver whenever you need that kind of feature]

Hu huuum... https://harlequin.sh/

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#9

Post by banga » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 1:59 AM UTC

Looks like a nice tool, but failed for me when reading a geoparquet file created using duckdb.

Re: Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

#10

Post by mrasong » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 3:07 AM UTC

lolive wrote: post #8

lolive wrote: post #7

Can DuckDB be included in the tool, so you can run queries directly from the UI? [that would avoid opening DBeaver whenever you need that kind of feature]

Hu huuum... https://harlequin.sh/

This tool actually feels pretty solid too.