csv-parse
Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm MIT
Used in agent projects
51
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#7 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
20.6M
npm, last 7 days, csv-parse
GitHub stars
4,280
last push Oct 9, 2026
How csv-parse is used
csv-parse is a dependency in 51 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #7 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (56.9%), viem (47.1%), Husky (37.3%).
Often used with csv-parse
| Vitest | 56.9% of csv-parse projects · 4.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| viem | 47.1% of csv-parse projects · 3.8× more than average |
| Husky | 37.3% of csv-parse projects · 5.9× more than average |
| TypeScript | 90.2% of csv-parse projects · 1.6× more than average |
| concurrently | 35.3% of csv-parse projects · 7.8× more than average |
| Sharp | 35.3% of csv-parse projects · 11.5× more than average |
| cross-env | 33.3% of csv-parse projects · 16.0× more than average |
| Zod | 47.1% of csv-parse projects · 2.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list csv-parse as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install csv-parse |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (32), Next.js (15), Python (3), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | crbnos/carbon, thepower/PowerDapp, BabylonSocial/babylon, mkellerman/bmad-mcp-server, smallbraineng/words3-contracts |
Alternatives to csv-parse
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| fast-xml-parser npm High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies. |
58 (0.5%) | 83.3M | 3,139 | MIT |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| soupsieve pypi CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup to query HTML and XML documents. |
39 (0.3%) | 70.4M | 271 | — |