Custom VisiData Plugins

This repository serves as a place for me to share VisiData plugins I've written.

Note: This repository has (mostly) been updated for VisiData 2.x. For plugin versions compatible with VisiData 1.5.2, see this version of the repository.

All code is released under the MIT License.

Table of Contents

• dedupe, for deduplicating rows (VisiData v2.x)
• normcol, for normalizing column names (VisiData v2.x)
• fec, for loading .fec files (VisiData v1.5.2)

dedupe

This plugin adds two sheet commands to VisiData:

• select-duplicate-rows sets the selection status in VisiData to selected for each row in the active sheet that is a duplicate of a prior row.

• dedupe-rows pushes a new sheet in which only non-duplicate rows in the active sheet are included.

See the plugin file for usage details.

normcol

This plugin normalizes column names in any given sheet, so that the names are:

• Composed only of lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores.

• Valid Python identifiers. This is mostly handled by the rule above, but also prohibits names beginning with a digit; that is handled by prefixing those names with an underscore.

• Unique within the sheet. Non-unique names are suffixed with "__" and an integer.

Unnamed columns are left as such.

For instance, a sheet with the following columns names:

• "Genus, Species"
• "Height"
• "5-score"
• "Height"
• ""
• ""

... would be converted to have the following column names:

• "genus_species"
• "height__0"
• "_5_score"
• "height__1"
• ""
• ""

This plugin adds one sheet command to VisiData:

• normalize-col-names normalizes the names of all non-hidden columns in the active sheet, per the approach described above.

See the plugin file for additional details.

fec

This plugin adds support for loading the Federal Election Commission's .fec files. In order for it to work, you'll need to install fecfile: pip install fecfile. Demo here.

See the plugin file for additional details.