diff --git a/bin/.gitignore b/bin/.gitignore
index 0d938a8..1a7a2d1 100644
--- a/bin/.gitignore
+++ b/bin/.gitignore
@@ -50,3 +50,4 @@ shellcheck
 shellspec
 zap-pretty
 act
+parquet-tools
diff --git a/bin/y-bin-dependency-download b/bin/y-bin-dependency-download
index f37cac1..cc34846 100755
--- a/bin/y-bin-dependency-download
+++ b/bin/y-bin-dependency-download
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ bin_link=$YBIN/$bin_name
   [ -z "$YSTACK_BIN_DOWNLOAD_CACHE" ] || bin_cache="$YSTACK_BIN_DOWNLOAD_CACHE/$bin_uniq"
   [ -z "$bin_cache" ] || [ ! -f "$bin_cache" ] || url="file://$bin_cache"
   echo "Missing $bin_name binary. Downloading a known version from $url ..." 1>&2
-
+  case "$url" in
+    *.tar.gz) ;;
+    *.gz) bin_file=$bin_file.gz ;;
+  esac
   curl -o $bin_file -L -f $url
   if ! echo "$sha256  $bin_file" | $SHA256SUM -c - 1>&2; then $SHA256SUM $bin_file && rm $bin_file && exit 1; fi
   if [ ! -z "$bin_tar_path" ]; then
@@ -57,6 +60,10 @@ bin_link=$YBIN/$bin_name
     (cd $tmp; unzip $bin_file)
     mv "$tmp/$bin_zip_path" $bin_file
   fi
+  case "$url" in
+    *.tar.gz) ;;
+    *.gz) gunzip $bin_file && bin_file=$(echo $bin_file | sed 's/\.gz$//g') ;;
+  esac
   [ -z "$bin_cache" ] || [ -f "$bin_cache" ] || cp -v $bin_file $bin_cache 1>&2
   chmod a+x $bin_file
 }
diff --git a/bin/y-bin.optional.yaml b/bin/y-bin.optional.yaml
index 6157854..2956ed9 100755
--- a/bin/y-bin.optional.yaml
+++ b/bin/y-bin.optional.yaml
@@ -240,3 +240,15 @@ deno:
   archive:
     tool: zip
     path: deno
+
+parquet-tools:
+  version: 1.25.4
+  templates:
+    download: https://github.com/hangxie/parquet-tools/releases/download/v${version}/parquet-tools-v${version}-${os}-${arch}.gz
+  sha256:
+    darwin_amd64: cd3b56717a5dbb6f65be5db5a16913ce3bc1c31e9268ec8f5565f97a52ce9d47
+    darwin_arm64: 5c12d0ac8450cb2ff38f06538f4b637e75f7ee338d48b87a923b0caa999fc190
+    linux_amd64: 0ffb333ed4ef1d190340a38e3fafcd1c1bbfa0fc6da6dba187f774219f053817
+    linux_arm64: 3d1c792e9028464d92f98ef108dccfde1bf978687fb3cfc337bff2aac71b6bfc
+  archive:
+    tool: gunzip
diff --git a/bin/y-parquet-tools b/bin/y-parquet-tools
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..eb12615
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/y-parquet-tools
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+[ -z "$DEBUG" ] || set -x
+set -e
+YBIN="$(dirname $0)"
+
+version=$(y-bin-download $YBIN/y-bin.optional.yaml parquet-tools)
+
+y-parquet-tools-v${version}-bin "$@" || exit $?