# Install cqlkit with Homebrew

CLI tool to export Cassandra query as CSV and JSON format. Version 0.3.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cqlkit
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cqlkit
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cqlkit
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.3
- **Source summary:** CLI tool to export Cassandra query as CSV and JSON format
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tenmax/cqlkit>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tenmax/cqlkit>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cql2cql (alias)
- cql2csv (alias)
- cql2json (alias)
- cqlkit (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.3.3
## Project history and usage

cqlkit is a small Cassandra command-line toolkit for exporting CQL query results as JSON or CSV.

### Project history

The project was created by TenMax around a narrow operational gap: Cassandra's CQL shell is useful interactively, but ad hoc export into semi-structured or structured formats is awkward.

### Adoption history

Its adoption profile is modest and task-specific. The official README documents direct release downloads, Homebrew installation on macOS, and Docker execution.

### How it is used

The package installs `cql2json`, `cql2csv`, `cql2cql`, and `cqlkit`. Users pass a query, file, or standard input and can reuse a cqlsh-compatible `~/.cassandra/cqlshrc` file for connection settings.

### Why package nerds care

cqlkit is the kind of utility package that matters in data operations because it turns a database-specific query path into ordinary shell-friendly JSON and CSV streams.

### Timeline

- v0.1.0: Early release series added partition-key and token-range query helpers.
- v0.3.x: Later releases kept the export-oriented CLI packaged for release downloads and Homebrew.

### Related projects

- cqlkit is adjacent to Apache Cassandra's `cqlsh`, but focuses on export workflows rather than interactive administration.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/tenmax/cqlkit#readme>
- <https://github.com/tenmax/cqlkit/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cqlkit>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cqlkit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cqlkit.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph