OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it.

Docker build

docker build -t activeeon/openrefine .

Docker image

https://hub.docker.com/r/activeeon/openrefine

Docker run

docker run -p 3333:3333 activeeon/openrefine:latest

point your browser on host machine to http://localhost:3333 (or on any machine within your network)

Example for customized run command

docker run --rm -p 80:3333 -v /home/user/data:/data:z activeeon/openrefine:latest -i 0.0.0.0 -d /data -m 4G

• automatically remove docker container when it exits (--rm)
• publish internal port 3333 to host port 80 (-p 80:3333)
• let OpenRefine read and write data in host directory
  • mount host path /home/felix/refine to container path /data (-v /home/felix/refine:/data:z)
  • set OpenRefine workspace to /data (-d /data)
• pin docker tag 3.2 (i.e. OpenRefine version) (:3.2)
• set Openrefine to be accessible from outside the container, i.e. from host (-i 0.0.0.0)
• increase java heap size to 4G (-m 4g)

See also

• Command line interface for OpenRefine: openrefine-client
• Linux Bash script to run OpenRefine in batch mode (import, transform, export): openrefine-batch-docker.sh
• https://github.com/opencultureconsulting/openrefine-docker