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Card 919 of 9982026-09-08 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-09-08

Transmute, the small wrench for badly formatted data

transmute.run Observed source
Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An offline CLI and browser interface that converts JSON, CSV, YAML, XML, and SQL while letting you filter, sort, join, flatten, and reshape the data.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-08 issue.

Field notes

The tool applies named pipeline steps to records before writing a new format, with examples covering filtering, field selection, sorting, joins, flattening, and computed values. Its SQL mode targets Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, while the browser demonstration runs locally in the page and says nothing is uploaded. The documentation also states important boundaries: inputs are held in memory, the practical file size is a few hundred megabytes, and YAML support excludes anchors and multi-line strings.

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NicheUnusually specific use

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