Announcing Squall: A TUI SQLite Editor

Squall is a SQLite viewer and editor that runs in your terminal. Squall is written in Python and uses the Textual package. Squall allows you to view and edit SQLite databases using SQL. You can check out the code on GitHub.

Screenshots

Here is what Squall looks like using the Chinook database:

Command-Line Options

Currently, there is only one command-line option: -f or --filename, which allows you to pass a database path to Squall to load.

Example Usage:

squall -f path/to/database.sqlite

Prerequisites

The instructions assume you have uv or pip installed.

Installation

PyPi

uv tool install squall_sql

Using uv on GitHub

uv tool install git+https://github.com/driscollis/squall

Update the Installation

If you want to upgrade to the latest version of Squall SQL, then you will want to run one of the following commands.

Using uv on GitHub

uv tool install git+https://github.com/driscollis/squall -U --force

Installing Using pip

pip install squall-sql

Running Squall from Source

If you have cloned the package and want to run Squall, one way to do so is to navigate to the cloned repository on your hard drive using your Terminal. Then run the following command while inside the src folder:

python -m squall.squall

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