macOS
brew install visidatalocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
visidata のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
brew install visidatalocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo apk add visidataAlpine Linux edge package indexes · visidata · ソース: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
sudo apt install visidataDebian stable package indexes · visidata · ソース: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install visidataFedora Rawhide package metadata · visidata · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#visidatanixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/vi/visidata/package.nix · ソース: api.github.com
sudo pacman -S visidataArch Linux sync databases · visidata · ソース: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
概要
Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
履歴
VisiData is an interactive terminal multitool for tabular data. The project describes itself as combining the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, with support for CSV, TSV, JSON, Excel, SQLite, HDF5, packet captures, shapefiles, archives, and many other data-shaped inputs.
Saul Pwanson conceived VisiData in October 2016 and later published a five-year retrospective in October 2021. That retrospective says the first public release was v0.14 posted to r/Python in November 2016, followed by v0.37 in December 2016, when the project was still roughly a single 1000-line Python script with loaders for CSV, JSON, XLSX, HDF5, frequency tables, and joins.
In 2017 the project grew quickly through its pre-1.0 period. Pwanson says the first major pre-1.0 release arrived in June 2017 and reached the top of Hacker News. Version 1.0 followed in January 2018, after which Anja joined the project and Jeremy Singer-Vine published an introductory tutorial that became an important onboarding resource.
The January 2019 v1.5.2 release was treated as a reliable final release for the v1 era while work continued on the develop branch. Pwanson and Anja then cleaned up the API and released v2.0 in October 2020. By late 2021 the project had a v2 release line, a new menu system in v2.6, and VisiData Plus as a home for many add-ons. The official site shows the v3 series continuing, including v3.4 in June 2026.
By the project's fifth anniversary in October 2021, the author reported that VisiData had roughly 15,000 lines of Python, thousands of regular users, and frequent mentions wherever people discussed tabular-data tools or terminal workflows. Adoption has been driven by analysts, journalists, data engineers, and command-line users who want quick exploration without leaving the shell.
VisiData's packaging footprint across Python and Unix distributions reflects that practical niche. It is not a replacement for notebooks or databases; it is commonly used as the first tool opened against an unfamiliar dataset, especially when a user wants to inspect, filter, summarize, join, reshape, or export data interactively.
Typical usage starts with `vd` or `visidata` on a local file, database, archive, API output, or other tabular source. Users navigate sheets with keyboard commands, create frequency tables and derived columns, perform joins and aggregations, and save transformed outputs or replayable sessions.
The project also supports batch-style workflows, Python extensibility, plugins, and saved sessions. That makes it a terminal bridge between one-off inspection and lightweight data pipelines.
VisiData is significant in package-manager culture because it gives the terminal a credible spreadsheet-like data workbench without pulling users into a GUI office suite or a heavyweight notebook stack. It is one of the standard answers to the question, 'What should I install for quickly understanding an unknown CSV?'
Its deeper package-nerd appeal is that it treats many non-obvious things as data, including filesystem metadata, API results, and packet captures. That broad loader model makes it a Swiss-army-knife dependency in shell-heavy data workflows.
セキュリティ状態
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
リスク グリーン · 信頼度 低 · appliance
エージェントに無人実行させる前に、このツールが平文の認証情報を読むか、リモート状態を書き込むか、成果物を公開するか、プラグインを起動するかを確認してください。
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
~/.visidatarc$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/visidata/config.pyCredential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
~/.visidatarc実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
vd | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル | |
vd2to3.vdx | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル | |
visidata | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル |
鮮度
これらの信号は、ページ生成時期、パッケージマネージャの活動、上流リリース比較を分けて示します。バージョン遅れは、証拠 URL と比較可能なバージョンがある場合だけ警告されます。
インストールメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:visidata |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 3.4 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| パッケージマネージャページ | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/visidata |
| ホームページ | https://www.visidata.org/ |
| リポジトリ | https://github.com/saulpw/visidata |
| 上流ドキュメント | https://www.visidata.org/ |
| ライセンス | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| ソースアーカイブ | https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/eb/dd/682ac00672daf1325a3174d5cb5f32b9d9a2aeb42d3baa18e669278308d0/visidata-3.4.tar.gz |
| 最終更新 | 2026-07-03T03:59:18Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| 依存関係 | python@3.14 |
| Bottle | 利用可能 (対象 all) |
| Homebrew post-install | 未定義 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
レジストリ情報
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | visidata |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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ソースデータベース一致
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
visidata 3.0.2-1
rapidly explore columnar data in the terminal
sudo apt install visidatavisidata
nix profile install nixpkgs#visidatavisidata 3.0.2-1
rapidly explore columnar data in the terminal
sudo apt install visidatavisidata 3.3-r1
Terminal spreadsheet multitool
sudo apk add visidatavisidata-doc 3.3-r1
Terminal spreadsheet multitool (documentation)
sudo apk add visidata-docvisidata-pyc 3.3-r1
Precompiled Python bytecode for visidata
sudo apk add visidata-pycvisidata-zsh-completion 3.3-r1
Zsh completions for visidata
sudo apk add visidata-zsh-completionpython3-visidata 3.3-3.fc45
Terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data
sudo dnf install python3-visidatavisidata 3.3-3.fc45
Terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data
sudo dnf install visidatavisidata 3.3-2
Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
sudo pacman -S visidataソース経路
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View the package source record on GitHub.