Anyquery – A SQL query engine for anything (CSV, GitHub, Airtable,etc.)
Hey HN, I’m Julien, and after finishing my CS sophomore year, I wanted a project to keep me busy during the summer. So I built anyquery for fun, a SQL query engine for pretty much anything. SQL is the industry standard query language for databases. But what if it could query other services? That’s what I wanted to explore. Kinda like Yahoo! Query Language, except that I was too young to see it. Anyquery can run queries on local/remote files (CSV, JSON, logs with Grok, Parquet, HTML tables, etc.), SaaS (GitHub, Notion, Spotify, etc.) and local apps (Apple Notes, Git, Google Chrome tabs,…
Anyquery – A SQL query engine for anything (CSV, GitHub, Airtable,etc.) launched on August 9, 2024 with 12 votes, #1,297 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Anyquery is a SQL query engine that lets users run SQL commands on diverse data sources including CSV files, JSON, GitHub, Notion, Spotify, Apple Notes, and other local and cloud services. It supports 35 integrations and can transform Google Sheets and Airtable bases into queryable SQL databases with full write capabilities. The tool also functions as a MySQL server to work with existing business intelligence tools and ORMs, making it useful for developers and data analysts who want to query multiple data sources using standard SQL syntax.
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From the sources
Run SQL on GitHub, Notion, Spotify, Gmail, Airtable, Google Sheets, CSVs, Parquet, logs — and 40+ more. One binary, one dialect. Then hand it to an LLM over MCP. Open source, AGPL-3.0.
🔍 Seeking a 6-month software engineering internship starting January 2027. Based in France, open to remote or relocation. [email protected] • Resume Anyquery turns GitHub, Notion, Spotify, Gmail, Airtable, Google Sheets, CSVs, Parquet, logs — and forty more — into queryable tables. One binary, one dialect, one way of asking questions. Then hand it to an LLM so Claude can answer them for you. You don't learn the Notion API. You don't write a Gmail scraper. You don't install four CLI tools. You write SELECT and Anyquery does the rest — across 40+ services and every file on disk. Built on SQLite. Everything from GitHub to Parquet looks like a table. JOIN them freely. Exposes the MySQL wire…from anyquery.dev
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I’m Julien, and after finishing my CS sophomore year, I wanted a project to keep me busy during the summer. So I built anyquery for fun, a SQL query engine for pretty much anything. SQL is the industry standard query language for databases. But what if it could query other services? That’s what I wanted to…
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