This python script prints all the columns of an sqlite database which path is given as argument.
Print the structure of an sqlite3 database
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Python 2 and 3
Created on Wed Jan 29 18:40:31 2014
name: inspectsqlite.py
@author: Gribouillis for the python forum at www.daniweb.com
@license: Public Domain
Use this code freely
"""
__version__ = '0.1.1'
import argparse
import contextlib
import prettytable as ptt # sudo pip install prettytable
import sqlite3
def get_table_names(cursor):
s = "SELECT `name` FROM `sqlite_master` WHERE `type`='table'"
cursor.execute(s)
names = [r[0] for r in cursor.fetchall()]
return names
headers = "table_name cid name type notnull dflt_value pk".split()
def get_columns(cursor):
tpl = "PRAGMA table_info(`{}`)" #http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_table_info
names = get_table_names(cursor)
for n in names:
s = tpl.format(n)
cursor.execute(s)
for row in cursor:
yield (n,) + tuple(row)
def print_all_columns(filename):
table = ptt.PrettyTable(headers)
table.align = 'l'
with contextlib.closing(sqlite3.connect(filename)) as conn:
with contextlib.closing(conn.cursor()) as cursor:
for row in get_columns(cursor):
table.add_row(row)
print(table)
if __name__ == '__main__':
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Display all columns of an sqlite database.")
parser.add_argument('filename',
action = 'store',
help = 'path to database file',
metavar = 'FILE',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
print_all_columns(args.filename)
""" Exemple use in a linux terminal:
$ python inspectsqlite.py ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/formhistory.sqlite
+-------------------------+-----+-------------+---------+---------+------------+----+
| table_name | cid | name | type | notnull | dflt_value | pk |
+-------------------------+-----+-------------+---------+---------+------------+----+
| moz_formhistory | 0 | id | INTEGER | 0 | None | 1 |
| moz_formhistory | 1 | fieldname | TEXT | 1 | None | 0 |
| moz_formhistory | 2 | value | TEXT | 1 | None | 0 |
| moz_formhistory | 3 | timesUsed | INTEGER | 0 | None | 0 |
| moz_formhistory | 4 | firstUsed | INTEGER | 0 | None | 0 |
| moz_formhistory | 5 | lastUsed | INTEGER | 0 | None | 0 |
| moz_formhistory | 6 | guid | TEXT | 0 | None | 0 |
| moz_deleted_formhistory | 0 | id | INTEGER | 0 | None | 1 |
| moz_deleted_formhistory | 1 | timeDeleted | INTEGER | 0 | None | 0 |
| moz_deleted_formhistory | 2 | guid | TEXT | 0 | None | 0 |
+-------------------------+-----+-------------+---------+---------+------------+----+
"""
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