Sample TSV File — Download Tab-Separated Test Data (1,000 Rows)
Tab-Separated Values · .tsv, .tab · MIME type text/tab-separated-values
Download a sample TSV file — 1,000 rows of the shared orders dataset with tab delimiters. TSV avoids CSV's quoting ambiguity (fields cannot contain tabs), which is why bioinformatics, Google Sheets exports and many data tools prefer it.
Use it to confirm your importer detects the delimiter rather than assuming commas, and that text editors and previewers show the columns aligned.
Download sample TSV files
| File | Details | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
sample-data-1000-rows.tsv | 1,000 rows | 100 KB |
Need one of every data format? Download the data sample pack (202 KB, one small file of every data format (17 files)).
Use these files from the command line or CI
Every URL is stable and CORS-open. Pin the SHA-256 in your test and you will know the moment a fixture changes.
# Download one file curl -O https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/data/tsv/sample-data-1000-rows.tsv # Verify it (SHA-256 is listed for every file above) shasum -a 256 sample-data-1000-rows.tsv # Machine-readable index of every sample file curl https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/index.json | jq '.files[] | select(.format=="tsv")'
TSV format at a glance
| Full name | Tab-Separated Values |
|---|---|
| Extensions | .tsv, .tab |
| MIME type | text/tab-separated-values |
| Delimiter | Tab (0x09) |
| Rows | 1,000 + header |
| Encoding | UTF-8 |
What people test with sample TSV files
- Delimiter auto-detection
- Data-science tooling (pandas read_csv with sep='\t')
Frequently asked questions
TSV or CSV — which is better?
TSV is simpler to parse because tabs rarely appear in data, so no quoting is needed. CSV is far more widely supported. If you control both ends, TSV is less error-prone; if you exchange with arbitrary tools, CSV.
Are these TSV files safe to download?
Yes. Every file is generated by our own open script from scratch — nothing is scraped or user-uploaded — and contains no scripts, macros or executables. The SHA-256 of each file is published on this page so you can verify what you received.
Can I use the sample TSV files commercially?
Yes. They are free for any purpose, including commercial products, test suites, demos and redistribution, with no attribution required. There is nothing to license and no one to ask.
Can I hotlink these files or use them in CI?
Yes. Every link is a stable direct URL over HTTPS with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and long cache headers, so curl, wget, fetch() and test runners can pull them directly. A JSON index of every file is linked from each page (see the command-line section).
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