Data Pipes = Unix-Style Data Tools + CSV + Web Web service to provide unix-style `cut`, `grep`, `sed` in a streaming, "pipe-like" manner. At the moment we operate on CSV files only (plain txt perhaps coming soon ...). ## API and Usage See ### Discussion API is under discussion and development - see: * [API structure issue](https://github.com/okfn/datapipes/issues/2) * [Proposed Operations issue](https://github.com/okfn/datapipes/issues/9) Probable operations - see [this issue](https://github.com/okfn/datapipes/issues/9) but as examples: * delete = delete rows * cut = select columns * grep = filter * head / tail / delete * sed (note sed 3d = delete ...) ## Potential additional features * Allow arbitrary map functions * Run JS scripts from explorer.okfnlabs.org * View support * Conversion * Async (run on a queue) ## Inspirations and Related * https://github.com/substack/dnode dnode is an asynchronous rpc system for node.js that lets you call remote functions. You can pass callbacks to remote functions, and the remote end can call the functions you passed in with callbacks of its own and so on. It's callbacks all the way down! ## Copyright and License Copyright 2013 Open Knowledge Foundation and Contributors. Licensed under the MIT license: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.