Tools

• QSV (⭐2.6k) - A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust, (an update to xsv).

• Data Wrangler (⭐476) - Data Wrangler is a code-centric data cleaning tool that is integrated into VS Code and VS Code Jupyter Notebooks.

Generate Data / CSV <-> JSON

• Mockium - Test data generator for CSV / JSON / SQL / XML.

Standards / CSV <-> JSON

• CSVY (⭐62) - A standard for adding a YAML header to CSV files to describe their format

Tools

• CSVKit - CSV utilities that includes csvsql / csvgrep / csvstat and more.

• Ron's Data Edit (new modern version of Ron's CSV Editor) - Handles big files, does miraculous things. A timeless editor for a timeless format.

Tools

• ExtendsClass - A simple CSV comparator.

Tools

• Modern CSV - A tool for editing CSV files and viewing large files.

Generate Data / CSV <-> JSON

• Fake Name Generator - Generate fake names with other identity data in bulk for testing.

Data / CSV <-> JSON

• United Nations data - Data from the UN

Tools

• Mighty Merge - join/union csv files.

Tools / Repair or Validate CSV

• reconcile-csv - Find relationships between a set of related CSVs

Standards / CSV <-> JSON

• Tabular Data Resource - A Data Resource specialized for describing tabular data like CSV files or spreadsheets

Generate Table Schema / Treat CSV as SQL

• PSKit Query (⭐39) — Powershell module lets you run simple queries over objects, including imported with csv

Tools / Repair or Validate CSV

• scrubcsv (⭐56) - Remove bad records from a CSV file and normalize (requires rust)

Generate Table Schema / Repair or Validate CSV

• CSV Schema — Analyzes a CSV file and generates database table schema, all within the browser

• Wanted: More tools in this category.

Generate Table Schema / Treat CSV as SQL

• q - Run SQL Directly on CSV Files

Tools

• NimbleText/Live - Use patterns to manipulate CSV; the world's simplest code generator *.

Tools / Repair or Validate CSV

• csvstudio - A smart app to repair syntax errors in very large CSV files.

Generate Table Schema / Treat CSV as SQL

• RBQL - Rainbow Query Language, a SQL-like language with JavaScript or Python backend.

Generate Table Schema / CSV <-> JSON

• Agnes - Two way Csv to Json **.

Essays / CSV <-> JSON

• Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser! - Leon Bambrick ***.

Tools

• Rainbow CSV plugins (⭐644) - Collection of text editor plugins for CSV/TSV syntax highlighting. Available for Vim (⭐644), VS Code, Atom, Sublime Text and other editors.

Tools

• ParaText (⭐1.1k) - CSV parsing at 2.5 GB per second.

Tools

• Powershell: Import-CSV - Powerful in-built facility for dealing with CSV (example).

Essays / CSV <-> JSON

• ASCII Delimited Text - Not CSV or TAB delimited text - Ronald Duncan.

Tools

• PapaParse - A powerful in-browser CSV parser.

• d3-dsv (⭐440) - d3.js parser and formatter module for delimiter-separated values.

• sed (gnu tool) - Stream editor.

• gawk (gnu tool) - Text processing and data extraction using awk.

• awk by example (⭐10k) - Comprehensive examples of using awk.

• Miller - Like sed / awk / cut / join / sort etc for name-indexed data such as CSV.

• CSVGet (⭐47) - Get structured data from sites as CSV.

• CSVfix - A tool for manipulating CSV data.

• Tad - A fast free cross-platform CSV viewer.

• Nvd3-tags - A tiny library for making charts from csv data.

• CSV Tools - A collection of useful CSV utilities.

• graph-cli (⭐791) - Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data.

• CSV to SQL - Online tool to create insert/update/delete etc from CSV data.

• C#: kbCSV (⭐78) - An efficient, easy to use .NET parsing and writing library for CSV.

• csvprintf (⭐42) - UNIX command line utility for parsing and formatting output based on CSV files.

Tools / Repair or Validate CSV

• Csvlint.go (⭐193) - Command line tool for validating CSV files against RFC 4180.

Generate Table Schema / Treat CSV as SQL

• TextQL - Execute SQL against CSV or TSV.

• Datasette Facets - Faceted browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB.

Generate Table Schema / Convert to or from CSV

• CSV to Table (⭐1.1k) - Convert CSV files to searchable and sortable HTML table.

Generate Table Schema / CSV <-> JSON

• csv2json - online tool to convert your CSV or TSV formatted data to JSON and vice versa.

• csv-to-json - Easy, privacy-friendly and offline-first online csv to json converter.

Essays / CSV <-> JSON

• Thinking about CSV - Martin Fenner.

• In Praise of CSV - Waldo Jaquith.

• So You Want To Write Your Own CSV code? - Thomas Burette.

• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About CSVs - Jesse Donat.

Generate Data / CSV <-> JSON

• Mockaroo - Random data generator for CSV / JSON / SQL / Excel.

Data / CSV <-> JSON

• US Data.gov - 18789+ CSV datasets.

• Australian Government Open Data - 2715+ CSV datasets.

• Reference data in csv - Easy-to-use reference data in CSV and JSON formats.

• awesome-public-datasets (⭐62k) - A topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains.

Conferences / CSV <-> JSON

• csv,conf - A community conference for data makers everywhere.

Standards / CSV <-> JSON

• RFC 4180 (html version) - "Common format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files".
  • Definition of the CSV Format
  • MIME Type Registration of text/csv

• W3C: Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web

• CSV Schema Language - A language for defining and validating CSV data.

• csv,specs - Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Format Specifications (and Tests) incl. CSV v1.0, CSV v1.1, CSV Strict, CSV <3 Numerics, CSV<3 JSON, CSV <3 YAML.

META: Other similar lists / CSV <-> JSON

• structured-text-tools (⭐7k) - List of command line tools for manipulating CSV / XML / HTML / JSON / INI etc.

• META-META - This list as CSV.

• META-META-META - A NimbleText pattern that produces this markdown page from this list as a CSV.