xan is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell.
It has been written in Rust to be as fast as possible, use as little memory as possible, and can very easily handle large CSV files (Gigabytes). It leverages a novel SIMD CSV parser and is also able to parallelize some computations (through multithreading) to make some tasks complete as fast as your computer can allow.
It can easily preview, filter, slice, aggregate, sort, join CSV files, and exposes a large collection of composable commands that can be chained together to perform a wide variety of typical tasks.
xan also offers its own expression language so you can perform complex tasks that cannot be done by relying on the simplest commands. This minimalistic language has been tailored for CSV data and is way faster than evaluating typical dynamically-typed languages such as Python, Lua, JavaScript etc.
Note that this tool is originally a fork of BurntSushi's xsv, but has been nearly entirely rewritten at that point, to fit SciencesPo's médialab use-cases, rooted in web data collection and analysis geared towards social sciences (you might think CSV is outdated by now, but read our love letter to the format before judging too quickly).
xan therefore goes beyond typical data manipulation and expose utilities related to lexicometry, graph theory and even scraping.
Beyond CSV data, xan is able to process a large variety of CSV-adjacent data formats from many different disciplines such as web archival (.cdx) or bioinformatics (.vcf, .gtf, .sam, .bed etc.). xan is also able to convert to & from many data formats such as json, excel files, numpy arrays etc. using xan to and xan from. See this section for more detail.
Finally, xan can be used to display CSV files in the terminal, for easy exploration, and can even be used to draw basic data visualisations.
Maelezo ya mchapishaji (Kiingereza)
xan ni nini?
Programu xan inachapishwa na médialab Sciences Po. Ni programu ya chanzo huria ya Windows iliyo katika kundi la “Lugha na SDK”. Imeandikwa kwa Rust.
Usakinishaji na mahitaji
Mchapishaji hutoa visakinishi vya Portable kwa Windows ya 64-bit. Inafanya kazi bila kusakinishwa (portable).
Masasisho na historia ya matoleo
Toleo la sasa ni 0.61.0, lililotolewa 11 Septemba 2026. Historia ya matoleo inarudi nyuma hadi 19 Septemba 2025: matoleo 11, yote yakiwa na viungo vya faili rasmi.
Umaarufu na aina za faili
Msimbo chanzo kwenye GitHub (medialab/xan) una nyota 4,540. Programu zinazofanana ni pamoja na Go Programming Language, LLVM na Deno.
Maelezo ya mradi kwenye GitHub: “The CSV magician”
Faida / Hasara
Faida
- Chanzo huria: mtu yeyote anaweza kukagua na kujenga msimbo
- Portable: inafanya kazi bila kusakinishwa
- Imesasishwa ndani ya miezi miwili iliyopita
Hasara
- Hakuna toleo asili la ARM64
Kwa ufupi: xan ni zana ya chanzo huria ya kundi la “Lugha na SDK” kwa kompyuta za 64-bit.
Je, ni salama kupakua xan?
- Faili inatolewa na github.com, kikoa cha mchapishaji mwenyewe
- Kiungo cha kupakua kinatumia HTTPS
- Hashi ya SHA256 imechapishwa, hivyo unaweza kuthibitisha faili:
5F7BEF4DCFFBFB3A3A937AC180ED76CDF966CB13647251BEFFDDB84D01C1AE54· Fungua ripoti ya VirusTotal ya hashi hii - Kiungo bado hakijakaguliwa
- Msimbo chanzo uko wazi kwa umma
- ExeAtlas haihifadhi, haifungi wala haibadilishi visakinishi
Mwongozo unaohusiana: Jinsi ya kukagua hashi ya SHA256 ya faili kwenye Windows
Matoleo ya karibuni
Matoleo yote 11 ›| Toleo | Tarehe | Ukubwa | Faili |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.61.0Jipya zaidi | 11 Septemba 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.60.0 | 10 Julai 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.59.0 | 17 Juni 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.58.0 | 2 Juni 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.57.1 | 15 Aprili 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.57.0 | 9 Aprili 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.56.0 | 20 Februari 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
| 0.55.0 | 12 Februari 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP |
Kusakinisha kwa mstari wa amri
Usakinishaji kimya ›winget install --id medialab.xan -escoop install extras/xanFaili za programu (.exe): xan.exe
Mwongozo unaohusiana: Jinsi ya kutumia winget: sakinisha na sasisha programu
Pia kwa mifumo mingine
brew install xanTaarifa
- Mchapishaji
- médialab Sciences Po
- Kategoria
- Lugha na SDK
- Leseni
- Unlicense, MIT
- Bei
- Bure
- Msimbo chanzo
- github.com/medialab/xan
- Imeandikwa kwa
- Rust
- Inahitaji
- Windows 11 / 10
- Usanifu
- 64-bit
- Kisakinishi
- Portable
- Toleo
- 0.61.0
- Ilitolewa
- 11 Septemba 2026
- Iliongezwa kwenye orodha
- 16 Novemba 2025
- Matoleo yaliyoorodheshwa
- 11
- Nyota za GitHub
- 4,540
- Forks za GitHub
- 94
- Tovuti
- github.com
- Kitambulisho cha winget
- medialab.xan
- Kifurushi cha Scoop
- extras/xan
Ukadiriaji na maoni
Bado hakuna maoni. Kuwa wa kwanza kuikadiria.
Mbadala wa xan
Ona zote ›-
Chanzo huriaM2.1 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaM2.8 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaelfu 249.7 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaM3.7 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaM1.9 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaM2.2 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaelfu 263.6 ↓ -
Chanzo huriaelfu 12.5 ↓
Maswali yanayoulizwa mara kwa mara
Je, xan ni bure?
Ndiyo. xan ni programu ya chanzo huria chini ya leseni ya Unlicense, MIT.
Je, ni salama kupakua xan?
Faili inapakuliwa kutoka github.com, ambayo ni ya mchapishaji mwenyewe; ExeAtlas haihifadhi wala haibadilishi faili. Linganisha hashi yake ya SHA256 na ile iliyoonyeshwa hapa, au fungua ripoti ya VirusTotal ya hashi hiyo.
Jinsi ya kusakinisha xan kwa winget?
Fungua PowerShell au Windows Terminal na uendeshe amri ya winget iliyoonyeshwa kwenye ukurasa huu. winget hupakua kisakinishi rasmi na kukagua hashi yake ya SHA256 kabla ya kukiendesha.
Je, xan inafanya kazi kwenye ARM (Windows on Arm)?
Hakuna toleo la ARM64; Windows 11 on Arm inaweza kuendesha toleo la 64-bit kupitia uigaji (emulation).
Wapi pa kupakua toleo la zamani la xan?
Ukurasa wa matoleo unaorodhesha matoleo 11 yote pamoja na viungo vya faili rasmi za kisakinishi, kuanzia 19 Septemba 2025.
Je, xan inaweza kutumika bila haki za msimamizi?
Ndiyo, ni portable: fungua kumbukumbu (archive) na uiendeshe.
Ni programu gani mbadala wa xan?
Go Programming Language, LLVM, Deno, CMake na Yarn. Ukurasa wa mbadala unazilinganisha.
