About parqeye
parqeye is a command line Parquet file viewer. Peek inside the file's data, metadata, and schema right from your terminal.
Command line Parquet file viewer
parqeye is a command line Parquet file viewer. Peek inside the file's data, metadata, and schema right from your terminal.
Release Notes
Added
- Support for large Parquet files with large row counts in the data preview (#43)
- g/G shortcuts to jump to the top/bottom of the data preview (#43)
- PyPI package and build workflow, so you can invoke uvx parqeye (#40)
Fixed
- Incorrect Min/Max aggregation in the Schema tab (#44)
- Column file offset and distinct count now show N/A when not set in the file metadata (#46)
- PyPI workflow builds for Linux manylinux_2_28 (#41)
- add dtype-extension to support extension types and handle panics with the polars crate (#45)
Changed
- Lazily load page info to speed up startup (#32)
Install parqeye 0.2.0
Install prebuilt binaries via shell script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye/releases/download/v0.2.0/parqeye-installer.sh | sh
Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew
brew install kaushiksrini/parqeye/parqeye
Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project
npm install [email protected]
Download parqeye 0.2.0
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File │Platform │Checksum
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parqeye-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Apple Silicon macOS│checksum
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parqeye-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Intel macOS │checksum
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parqeye-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip │x64 Windows │checksum
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parqeye-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz │ARM64 Linux │checksum
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parqeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz │x64 Linux │checksum
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parqeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz │x64 MUSL Linux │checksum
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| Publisher | Kaushik Srinivasan |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.2.0 |
| Release date | 2026-09-16 |
| License | MIT |
| Installer type | zip |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Package ID | kaushiksrini.parqeye |
winget install --id=kaushiksrini.parqeye -ewinget upgrade --id=kaushiksrini.parqeye -ewinget uninstall --id=kaushiksrini.parqeye -eparqeye adds this command to the command line: parqeye.
Install parqeye 0.1.0
Install prebuilt binaries via shell script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye/releases/download/v0.1.0/parqeye-installer.sh | sh
Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew
brew install kaushiksrini/parqeye/parqeye
Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project
npm install [email protected]
Download parqeye 0.1.0
─────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────
File │Platform │Checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Apple Silicon macOS│checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Intel macOS │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip │x64 Windows │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz │ARM64 Linux │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz │x64 Linux │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz │x64 MUSL Linux │checksum …
Install parqeye 0.0.2
Install prebuilt binaries via shell script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye/releases/download/v0.0.2/parqeye-installer.sh | sh
Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew
brew install kaushiksrini/parqeye/parqeye
Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project
npm install [email protected]
Download parqeye 0.0.2
─────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────
File │Platform │Checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Apple Silicon macOS│checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Intel macOS │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip │x64 Windows │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz │ARM64 Linux │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz │x64 Linux │checksum
─────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────
parqeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz │x64 MUSL Linux │checksum …
Yes. parqeye is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.
The latest version is 0.2.0, released on Sep 16, 2026.
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with d613e4819721de8f0415e3ced8df60912508ac9d9b0c940a30413f53e17fe52f.
parqeye runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find parqeye and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=kaushiksrini.parqeye -e.
Yes. parqeye is available as a portable ZIP archive (parqeye-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip, 64-bit (x64)) that runs without installation. Copy it to any folder or USB drive and run it from there.