This is a command-line tool to extract the resources within a Frictionless Data Package into a variety of formats such as Markdown, HTML, CSV, etc. It will be available for as many different platforms as possible. It uses the schemas for each resource within the Data Package to generate the reports. It has in-built support for tabular-data-resources and will download and parse any web-based schemas from the resource profiles and use these when they are specified. It will output a file for each Data Resource within the Data Package.
The grassroots_fd_tool package can be downloaded from https://github.com/TGAC/grassroots-client-frictionless-data/releases/. Currently there are versions for Linux and Windows with more platforms to follow. For Linux, you will also need to install libcurl which you can do with
sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev
or using a similar method depending upon your distribution.
Currently this is a shell-based tool so needs to be run in a Power Shell or DOS prompt on Windows or in terminal on Linux. To run it type grassroots_fd_tool with the following command line parameters:
On Linux, you need to make sure that the required libraries are in the runtime library search path. You can so this using the enclosed run_grassroots_frictionless_data_tool.sh within the archive. Alternatively, you can type
cd <path to where you extracted the grassroots_fd_tool files>
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:fd_libs
in a terminal and then you can use grassroots_fd_tool as above.