QLArrow

QuickLook plugin for various Arrow file formats. Arrow is a high-performance, language-agnostic columnar memory format.

Roadmap

Parquet is the main use case here but Arrow IPC may be useful for some.

Currently, QLArrow provides QuickLook previews for:

• [x] Parquet
• [ ] Feather
• [ ] Arrow IPC

Installation

• Download the latest release and extract the ZIP
• Run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine QLArrow.qlgenerator on QLArrow.qlgenerator
• Move to ~/Library/QuickLook

Building

0. Pre-requisites

• XCode
• Go

1. Build the Go subproject

   go build -buildmode=c-archive -o internal.a ./internal
   

2. Build the XCode subproject

• Open QLArrow.xcodeproj
• Build the QLArrow target

Credit

• https://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown
• https://github.com/remko/qlmka