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Show HN: CSVBase – a website for hosting (smallish) data tables (csvbase.com)
6 points by calpaterson on May 10, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I'm on paternity leave at the moment, so, during naps, I have been working on this side-project: a kind of "github, but for data tables". The motivation is kind of twofold: I always wished there was a simple pastebin style thing where you could paste output from SQL queries (eg queries you run because someone asks you something on slack) and also I wish there that open data was in a more straightforward format when you find it on the web.

I like the fact that it's easy to load stuff into pandas:

    # same url as the table view page, http content negotiation magick
    import pandas; pandas.read_csv("https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges")
    
Same goes for R and MS Excel (eg https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges.xlsx )

Would love to hear opinions

EDIT: Ack, I meant to post the link to this demo: https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges


Love the fact that it can essentially API-ify the uploaded CSVs.

What's the expiration time on pasted CSVs?


There's no expiration time per se (though maybe that would be a nice feature at some point?).

Storage is very cheap at the host I'm using but maybe at some point I could track tables that aren't being used and (reversibly) archive then to S3 or something




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