This script aims to get the same functionality as the Unix command head for Avro-files.
You will need to install the latest python bindings for your python version from https://avro.apache.org
You call this script with an optional number (-n) and a filename (-f) and you will get back the number you've put in of Avro objects as formatted JSON from that given Avro-file.
You can also redirect the output to another Avro file with the -d switch.
For convenience I've added a switch to pretty-print JSON (-i) and one to only extract the schema from the file (-s)
Example:
python avrohead.py -n 42 -f /path/to/my/file.avro
This software is released under the Beerware license. Almost too detailed License information on Wikipedia