GitHub – kaushiksrini/parqeye

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.

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.