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title: "Converting Parquet to JSON"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/BloxOneCloud/35366699/Converting%20Parquet%20to%20JSON"
format: markdown
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You can convert any parquet files that you receive in your S3 bucket to JSON format using the *Apache parquet tool* provided by Infoblox.

#### To convert parquet to JSON

Example:

`java -jar parquet-tools-1.10.1-SNAPSHOT.jar cat -j rpz_0000000000000000034_014.parquet`

#### To view the avro schema and compression information of any parquet file

Example:

`java -jar parquet-tools-1.10.1-SNAPSHOT.jar meta rpz_0000000000000000034_014.parquet`

#### To view all other parquet file utilities

Usage:

`java -jar parquet-tools-1.10.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -h`