How to open and convert sqlite database to pandas dataframe

The line

data = sqlite3.connect('data.db')

opens a connection to the database. There are no records queried up to this. So you have to execute a query afterward and provide this to the pandas DataFrame constructor.

It should look similar to this

import sqlite3
import pandas as pd

dat = sqlite3.connect('data.db')
query = dat.execute("SELECT * From <TABLENAME>")
cols = [column[0] for column in query.description]
results= pd.DataFrame.from_records(data = query.fetchall(), columns = cols)

I am not really firm with SQL commands, so you should check the correctness of the query. should be the name of the table in your database.

Search sqlalchemy, engine and database name in google (sqlite in this case):

import pandas as pd
import sqlalchemy

db_name = "data.db"
table_name = "LITTLE_BOBBY_TABLES"

engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine("sqlite:///%s" % db_name, execution_options={"sqlite_raw_colnames": True})
df = pd.read_sql_table(table_name, engine)

i have stored my data in database.sqlite table name is Reviews

import sqlite3
con=sqlite3.connect("database.sqlite")

data=pd.read_sql_query("SELECT * FROM Reviews",con)
print(data)

I wrote a piece of code up that saves tables in a database file such as .sqlite or .db and creates an excel file out of it with each table as a sheet or makes individual tables into csvs.

Note: You don’t need to know the table names in advance!

import os, fnmatch
import sqlite3
import pandas as pd

#creates a directory without throwing an error
def create_dir(dir):
  if not os.path.exists(dir):
    os.makedirs(dir)
    print("Created Directory : ", dir)
  else:
    print("Directory already existed : ", dir)
  return dir

#finds files in a directory corresponding to a regex query
def find(pattern, path):
    result = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for name in files:
            if fnmatch.fnmatch(name, pattern):
                result.append(os.path.join(root, name))
    return result



#convert sqlite databases(.db,.sqlite) to pandas dataframe(excel with each table as a different sheet or individual csv sheets)
def save_db(dbpath=None,excel_path=None,csv_path=None,extension="*.sqlite",csvs=True,excels=True):
    if (excels==False and csvs==False):
      print("Atleast one of the parameters need to be true: csvs or excels")
      return -1

    #little code to find files by extension
    if dbpath==None:
      files=find(extension,os.getcwd())
      if len(files)>1:
        print("Multiple files found! Selecting the first one found!")
        print("To locate your file, set dbpath=<yourpath>")
      dbpath = find(extension,os.getcwd())[0] if dbpath==None else dbpath
      print("Reading database file from location :",dbpath)

    #path handling

    external_folder,base_name=os.path.split(os.path.abspath(dbpath))
    file_name=os.path.splitext(base_name)[0] #firstname without .
    exten=os.path.splitext(base_name)[-1]   #.file_extension

    internal_folder="Saved_Dataframes_"+file_name
    main_path=os.path.join(external_folder,internal_folder)
    create_dir(main_path)


    excel_path=os.path.join(main_path,"Excel_Multiple_Sheets.xlsx") if excel_path==None else excel_path
    csv_path=main_path if csv_path==None else csv_path

    db = sqlite3.connect(dbpath)
    cursor = db.cursor()
    cursor.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table';")
    tables = cursor.fetchall()
    print(len(tables),"Tables found :")

    if excels==True:
      #for writing to excel(xlsx) we will be needing this!
      try:
        import XlsxWriter
      except ModuleNotFoundError:
        !pip install XlsxWriter

    if (excels==True and csvs==True):
      writer = pd.ExcelWriter(excel_path, engine='xlsxwriter')
      i=0
      for table_name in tables:
          table_name = table_name[0]
          table = pd.read_sql_query("SELECT * from %s" % table_name, db)
          i+=1
          print("Parsing Excel Sheet ",i," : ",table_name)
          table.to_excel(writer, sheet_name=table_name, index=False)
          print("Parsing CSV File ",i," : ",table_name)
          table.to_csv(os.path.join(csv_path,table_name + '.csv'), index_label='index')

      writer.save()


    elif excels==True:
      writer = pd.ExcelWriter(excel_path, engine='xlsxwriter')
      i=0
      for table_name in tables:
          table_name = table_name[0]
          table = pd.read_sql_query("SELECT * from %s" % table_name, db)
          i+=1
          print("Parsing Excel Sheet ",i," : ",table_name)
          table.to_excel(writer, sheet_name=table_name, index=False)

      writer.save()

    elif csvs==True:
      i=0
      for table_name in tables:
          table_name = table_name[0]
          table = pd.read_sql_query("SELECT * from %s" % table_name, db)
          i+=1
          print("Parsing CSV File ",i," : ",table_name)
          table.to_csv(os.path.join(csv_path,table_name + '.csv'), index_label='index')
    cursor.close()
    db.close()
    return 0
save_db(); 

Parsing a sqlite .db into a dictionary of dataframes without knowing the table names:

def read_sqlite(dbfile):
    import sqlite3
    from pandas import read_sql_query, read_sql_table

    with sqlite3.connect(dbfile) as dbcon:
        tables = list(read_sql_query("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table';", dbcon)['name'])
        out = {tbl : read_sql_query(f"SELECT * from {tbl}", dbcon) for tbl in tables}

   return out

If data.db is your SQLite database and table_name is one of its tables, then you can do:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_sql_table('table_name', 'sqlite:///data.db')

No other imports needed.