https://github.com/pola-rs/polars-cli

CLI interface for running SQL queries with Polars as backend
https://github.com/pola-rs/polars-cli

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CLI interface for running SQL queries with Polars as backend

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars-cli
• Owner: pola-rs
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-08-10T09:18:22.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-03T07:47:18.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-31T11:47:34.926Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: polars, sql
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://pola.rs/
• Size: 152 KB
• Stars: 157
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 16
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS

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# Polars CLI

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The Polars command line interface provides a convenient way to execute SQL commands using Polars as a backend.

## Installation

The recommended way to install the Polars CLI is by using [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/):

```bash

pip install polars-cli

```

This will install a pre-compiled binary and make it available on your path under `polars`.

If you do not have Python available, you can download a suitable binary from the most recent [GitHub release](https://github.com/pola-rs/polars-cli/releases/latest/).

Alternatively, you can install the Polars CLI using [cargo](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/), which will compile the code from scratch:

```bash

cargo install --locked polars-cli

```

## Usage

Running `polars` without any arguments will start an interactive shell in which you can run SQL commands.

```shell

$ polars

Polars CLI version 0.4.0

Type .help for help.

>> select * FROM read_csv('examples/datasets/foods.csv');

┌────────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────────┐

│ category   ┆ calories ┆ fats_g ┆ sugars_g │

│ ---        ┆ ---      ┆ ---    ┆ ---      │

│ str        ┆ i64      ┆ f64    ┆ i64      │

╞════════════╪══════════╪════════╪══════════╡

│ vegetables ┆ 45       ┆ 0.5    ┆ 2        │

│ seafood    ┆ 150      ┆ 5.0    ┆ 0        │

│ meat       ┆ 100      ┆ 5.0    ┆ 0        │

│ fruit      ┆ 60       ┆ 0.0    ┆ 11       │

│ …          ┆ …        ┆ …      ┆ …        │

│ seafood    ┆ 200      ┆ 10.0   ┆ 0        │

│ seafood    ┆ 200      ┆ 7.0    ┆ 2        │

│ fruit      ┆ 60       ┆ 0.0    ┆ 11       │

│ meat       ┆ 110      ┆ 7.0    ┆ 0        │

└────────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────────┘

```

Alternatively, SQL commands can be piped directly into the Polars CLI.

```bash

$ echo "SELECT category FROM read_csv('examples/datasets/foods.csv')" | polars

┌────────────┐

│ category   │

│ ---        │

│ str        │

╞════════════╡

│ vegetables │

│ seafood    │

│ meat       │

│ fruit      │

│ …          │

│ seafood    │

│ seafood    │

│ fruit      │

│ meat       │

└────────────┘

```

## Features

When compiling the Polars CLI from source, the following features can be enabled:

| Feature   | Description                                               |

| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |

| default   | The default feature set that includes all other features. |

| highlight | Provides syntax highlighting                              |

| parquet   | Enables reading and writing of Apache Parquet files.      |

| json      | Enables reading and writing of JSON files.                |

| ipc       | Enables reading and writing of IPC/Apache Arrow files     |