# Install csvkit with Homebrew, apt, Nix, pacman
Suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV. Version 2.2.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install csvkit.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:csvkit
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install csvkit
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
### Linux
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install csvkit
```
Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: csvkit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#csvkit
```
Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cs/csvkit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S csvkit
```
Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: csvkit from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:csvkit
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2.0
- **Source summary:** Suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV
- **Homepage:**
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- csvclean (alias)
- csvcut (alias)
- csvformat (alias)
- csvgrep (alias)
- csvjoin (alias)
- csvjson (alias)
- csvlook (alias)
- csvpy (alias)
- csvsort (alias)
- csvsql (alias)
- csvstack (alias)
- csvstat (alias)
- in2csv (alias)
- sql2csv (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.2.0
## Project history and usage
csvkit is a Python suite of command-line tools for converting, inspecting, querying, and transforming CSV and other tabular data formats.
### Project history
The upstream README describes csvkit as a suite for working with CSV, inspired by pdftk, GDAL, and the original csvcut tool by Joe Germuska and Aaron Bycoffe. Its changelog begins in 2012 and records steady expansion from conversion and inspection utilities into SQL import/export, GeoJSON, compressed input, richer type inference, and Python-version maintenance.
Version 1.0.0 arrived in December 2016. The 2.0.0 release in May 2024 was the first major release since 1.0.0 and included backwards-incompatible csvclean behavior changes, new checks, and a renewed focus on standard streams and explicit options.
### Adoption history
csvkit became a common package-manager fixture because it provides many small Unix-style commands under one distribution: in2csv, csvcut, csvgrep, csvjoin, csvjson, csvlook, csvsql, csvstack, csvstat, sql2csv, and others. The input package metadata records distribution through Homebrew, Debian, Nix, Arch, and Ubuntu.
The README advertises PyPI download and version badges, while the documentation is hosted on Read the Docs. That combination made csvkit both a Python package and a system-package dependency for users who wanted spreadsheet and database conversion without opening a GUI.
### How it is used
Typical use is shell-oriented: convert Excel, JSON, DBF, or SQL data to CSV, select or filter columns, join files, pretty-print tables with csvlook, compute statistics with csvstat, or create/query database tables with csvsql. Its role overlaps with small Unix text tools but handles CSV dialects, quoting, encodings, and tabular types explicitly.
### Why package nerds care
csvkit is package-significant because it bundles a vocabulary of CSV subcommands into one installable toolchain. It is also a useful comparison point for newer single-purpose tools: csview's own README benchmarks against csvkit's csvlook, showing how csvkit remains a reference implementation even when leaner tools optimize a narrower job.
### Timeline
- 2012: Changelog begins at 0.4.3.
- 2012: 0.5.0 adds csvpy, GeoJSON support, Windows scripts, and lower-memory multi-file handling.
- 2014: 0.7.0 merges sql2csv and improves SQL-on-CSV workflows.
- 2016: 1.0.0 is released.
- 2024: 2.0.0 ships as the first major release since 2016.
- 2025: 2.2.0 adds Python 3.14 support and drops Python 3.9.
### Related projects
- csvkit is related to agate, which it uses internally, and to the original csvcut, pdftk, and GDAL inspirations named by upstream. It is commonly compared with xsv, Miller, q, and other command-line tabular-data tools.
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## Security Notes
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Debian apt - csvkit - 2.0.1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: csvkit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | command-line tools for working with CSV | https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
- Debian apt - csvkit-doc - 2.0.1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: csvkit-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | documentation for csvkit | https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
- Debian apt - python3-csvkit - 2.0.1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-csvkit from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | public modules for csvkit (Python 3) | https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
- Nix - csvkit: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cs/csvkit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - csvkit - 1.4.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: csvkit from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | command-line tools for working with CSV | https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
- Ubuntu apt - csvkit-doc - 1.4.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: csvkit-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | documentation for csvkit | https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
- Ubuntu apt - python3-csvkit - 1.4.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-csvkit from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | public modules for csvkit (Python 3) | https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
- pacman - csvkit - 2.2.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: csvkit from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV | https://csvkit.readthedocs.org
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/csvkit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/csvkit.yml)
## Sources
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph