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What it uses

Install

terminal

$pip install pixeltable

Pixeltable calls

pxt.create_table()@pxt.udfinsert()

A look at the code

v = pxt.create_table('external_data/videos', {'video': pxt.Video})

prefix = 's3://multimedia-commons/'
paths = [
    'data/videos/mp4/ffe/ffb/ffeffbef41bbc269810b2a1a888de.mp4',
    'data/videos/mp4/ffe/feb/ffefebb41485539f964760e6115fbc44.mp4',
    'data/videos/mp4/ffe/f73/ffef7384d698b5f70d411c696247169.mp4',
]
v.insert({'video': prefix + p} for p in paths)

One cell of the notebook, copied as it is. Open it in Colab for the rest.

• 10-Minute Tour

  Welcome to Pixeltable! In this tutorial, we'll survey how to create tables, populate them with data, and enhance them with built-in and user-defined transformations and AI operations.

  Updated Sep 3, 2026Open in Colab

• Tables and Data Operations

  Create and manage tables, insert, update and delete data, and filter and select rows with where(), select() and order_by().

  Updated Oct 28, 2026Open in Colab

• Computed Columns

  This guide introduces one of Pixeltable's most essential and powerful concepts: computed columns.

  Updated Sep 3, 2026Open in Colab

• Queries and Expressions

  Expressions are the basic building blocks of Pixeltable.

  Updated Oct 6, 2026Open in Colab