Getting started
Welcome to the official docs for whale! Whale is an open-source CLI-based data discovery and SQL-runner built and maintained by hyperquery.
Installation
Mac OS
All others (and local development)
You'll need to have rust installed for the following commands to work.
If you are not on macOS (or are looking to build whale from source for development purposes), you should (a) clone the whale repository and run (b)make && make install in the base directory of the repo.
The Makefile commands don't explicitly add an alias for the whale binary, so you'll want to add the following alias to your .bash_profile or .zshrc file.
This method is generally preferred for development as well, as the virtual environment is exposed and modifiable in ~/.whale/libexec/env.
Advanced syntax highlighting
We highly recommend installing bat to enable advanced syntax highlighting (once detected, whale will use bat over cat automatically).
Quick start (local usage)
Start by running:
This will assist you in:
Setting up the necessary file structure in
~/.whale.Setting up your warehouse connection credentials.
Registering a cron job in your
crontab, so whale can periodically scrape metadata.
Once that is complete, either wait for the cron job to run, or run wh pull & to manually kick off a job in the background, if you're feeling impatient.
If you instead want to use a git server like github to back your catalog, see Git setup.
Basic usage
To obtain a list of available commands, run:
To run whale's search engine, run:
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