Parquet Viewer

Online at: https://parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems

OpenVSX or VS Code extension

Parquet viewer is made possible with the funding from InfluxData.

Features

Query parquet data with SQL ✅
Query parquet data with natural language through LLM ✅
View Parquet metadata ✅
View Parquet files from anywhere -- local file, S3, or any URLs ✅
Everything runs in the browser, no server, no external dependencies, just a web page ✅
Read only you query -- won't download the entire parquet file ✅

Demo

screenshot

Tips

You can use ?url= to load a file from a url. For example, parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tobilg/public-cloud-provider-ip-ranges/main/data/providers/all.parquet will load the file from github. parquet-viewer is smart enough to only download the data that is relevant to your query, usually a few KBs, even if the file is large.
If you have parquet files on remote servers, a useful tip is to use sshfs to mount the folder from the server to your local machine. This allows you to access your remote parquet files without opening additional ports for this tool.

Local cli

nix run .#cli -- file.parquet

2026-01-09T15:20:13.357327Z  INFO parquet_viewer_cli: Serving Posts.parquet on http://0.0.0.0:53703

Serving: file.parquet

Viewer URLs:
  http://0.0.0.0:53703/?url=http%3A%2f%2f0.0.0.0%3A53703%2ffile%2ffile.parquet
  http://localhost:53703/?url=http%3A%2f%2flocalhost%3A53703%2ffile%2ffile.parquet
  http://xiangpeng-madison:53703/?url=http%3A%2f%2fxiangpeng-madison%3A53703%2ffile%2ffile.parquet

Press Ctrl+C to stop the server.

Development

It compiles Parquet, Arrow, Datafusion, OpenDAL to WebAssembly and uses it to explore Parquet files, more details.

After you have installed nix, the dev environment is setup with:

direnv allow

Which takes care of the cross-compiling of Rust, C++, C to WebAssembly, and everything else you need to run the project.

Run locally

dx serve --profile debug-strip

dx bundle --release

Run tests

wasm-pack test --headless --firefox

Build web static files

nix build .#web

Output will be in result/ directory.

Build VS Code extension

nix build .#vscode-extension

Output will be in result/ directory.

Build Docker image

nix build .#docker
docker load < result
docker run -p 8080:80 parquet-viewer:0.1.31

Citation

If you use Parquet Viewer in your research or wish to refer to it in your publications, please use the following BibTeX entry:

@software{parquet_viewer,
  author = {Xiangpeng Hao and Jigao Luo and LLM and {ParquetViewer developers}},
  title = {Parquet Viewer: Interactive Parquet File Explorer},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://github.com/XiangpengHao/parquet-viewer},
  note = {Online at: https://parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems}
}

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Be aware that most of the code is generated by AI, resistance is futile.

Parquet Querier

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