# PyArrow Parquet Python API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/parquet/pyarrow/  
**Provider:** Apache Parquet — https://apis.io/providers/parquet/  
**Base URL:** https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/  
**Documentation:** https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/parquet.html

PyArrow Parquet Python API is one of 6 APIs that [Apache Parquet](https://apis.io/providers/parquet/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library and Python. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a GitHub repository, and an API reference.

Python library for reading and writing Parquet files, distributed as part of Apache Arrow.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/parquet.html
- **PyPI Package** — https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/apache/arrow
- **APIReference** — https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/formats.html

## Other Apache Parquet APIs (5)

- [Apache Parquet Format Specification](https://apis.io/apis/parquet/format-specification/)
- [Parquet Java API](https://apis.io/apis/parquet/java/)
- [Parquet C++ API](https://apis.io/apis/parquet/cpp/)
- [Parquet R API](https://apis.io/apis/parquet/r/)
- [FastParquet Python API](https://apis.io/apis/parquet/fastparquet/)

## Tags

Library, Python

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