Frictionless Framework
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Data management framework for Python that provides functionality to describe, extract, validate, and transform tabular data (DEVT Framework). It supports a great deal of data sources and formats, as well as provides popular platforms integrations. The framework is powered by the lightweight yet comprehensive Frictionless Standards.
Purpose
- Describe your data: You can infer, edit and save metadata of your data tables. It's a first step for ensuring data quality and usability. Frictionless metadata includes general information about your data like textual description, as well as, field types and other tabular data details.
- Extract your data: You can read your data using a unified tabular interface. Data quality and consistency are guaranteed by a schema. Frictionless supports various file schemes like HTTP, FTP, and S3 and data formats like CSV, XLS, JSON, SQL, and others.
- Validate your data: You can validate data tables, resources, and datasets. Frictionless generates a unified validation report, as well as supports a lot of options to customize the validation process.
- Transform your data: You can clean, reshape, and transfer your data tables and datasets. Frictionless provides a pipeline capability and a lower-level interface to work with the data.
Features
- Open Source (MIT)
- Powerful Python framework
- Convenient command-line interface
- Low memory consumption for data of any size
- Reasonable performance on big data
- Support for compressed files
- Custom checks and formats
- Fully pluggable architecture
- The included API server
- More than 1000+ tests
Installation
$ pip install frictionless
Example
$ frictionless validate data/invalid.csv
[invalid] data/invalid.csv
row field code message
----- ------- ---------------- --------------------------------------------
3 blank-header Header in field at position "3" is blank
4 duplicate-header Header "name" in field "4" is duplicated
2 3 missing-cell Row "2" has a missing cell in field "field3"
2 4 missing-cell Row "2" has a missing cell in field "name2"
3 3 missing-cell Row "3" has a missing cell in field "field3"
3 4 missing-cell Row "3" has a missing cell in field "name2"
4 blank-row Row "4" is completely blank
5 5 extra-cell Row "5" has an extra value in field "5"
Documentation
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