extract_mysql_tables.py

extract_mysql_tables.py is a small command-line utility for extracting data from a MySQL database and writing each table to a file with tab-separated values. Each file will be named after the table, suffixed with ".tsv".

The code has been tested with Python 3.6.

Source repository: https://github.com/naturhistoriska/extract_mysql_tables.py

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Table of contents

• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Usage
• Python code style conventions
• License
• Author and maintainer

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• The Python library PyMySQL

An easy way to get Python working on your computer is to install the free Anaconda distribution.

Installation

The project is hosted at <https://github.com/naturhistoriska/extract_mysql_tables.py> and can be downloaded using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/naturhistoriska/extract_mysql_tables.py

Usage

./extract_mysql_tables.py --help
usage: extract_mysql_tables.py [-h] [-V] [-u USER] [-p PASSWORD] [--host HOST]
                               [--table-type {1,2,3}] [-o DIR]
                               database [table-file]

Command-line utility for exporting tables from a MySQL database to files in
tab-separated values (TSV) format.

positional arguments:
  database              database name
  table-file            file with table names separated by newline characters
                        (if missing, all tables will be exported)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -u USER, --user USER  MySQL user (default: "root")
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        MySQL password
  --host HOST           database host (default: "localhost")
  --table-type {1,2,3}  Table type to include in export: 1=BASE TABLE; 2=VIEW;
                        3=SYSTEM VIEW (i.e. INFORMATION_SCHEMA table). The
                        table type will be ignored if there is a file provided
                        with table names.
  -o DIR, --output-dir DIR
                        path to the output directory (default: current
                        directory)

Python code style conventions

The code follow style conventions in PEP 8, which can be checked with pycodestyle:

$ pycodestyle extract_mysql_tables.py

License

extract_mysql_tables.py is distributed under the MIT license.

Author and maintainer

Markus Englund, [email protected]