View a Parquet File Online

See Apache Parquet Data as a Table, No Code Needed

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Skip writing a throwaway Python script just to peek at a data file's schema and sample rows.

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Features

  • Privacy-first processing with automatic deletion
  • Real-time, instant results
  • 100% free, no sign-up required
  • Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
  • No installation needed

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About View a Parquet File Online

Apache Parquet is the standard columnar storage format across data engineering, analytics, and machine learning pipelines — but its binary, column-oriented structure makes it completely unreadable without specialized tooling like a Python script or a full data platform, even for a quick check of what a file actually contains.

This tool reads a .parquet file directly in your browser and displays its data as a familiar table — column names as headers, rows of actual data below — along with the file's total row and column counts, without needing pandas, Spark, or any data platform installed.

For files with a large number of rows, only the first 200 are loaded and displayed, since the goal here is a quick look at a file's schema and sample data rather than a full data-processing tool — for actual data analysis at scale, a proper data engineering tool is still the right choice.

How it works

  1. Upload a .parquet file. Choose a Parquet file from your device.
  2. Review the schema and data. See column names and the first 200 rows of actual data.
  3. Check the total row count. The full file's row count is shown even though only a sample is displayed.

Examples

Typical use

Input

A Parquet file exported from a data pipeline

Output

A table showing column headers and the first 200 rows of data, with total row count noted.

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