[nodejs] How to access records in a parquet file written by wrangler?

[mattfysh]

For .snappy.parquet files written to S3 when calling wr.s3.to_parquet with the database option:

I'm trying to get these files from S3 and access the records inside from a nodejs process, but the libraries I'm using are all throwing errors. I've also tried using snzip to decompress the snappy file and that also failed.

Is there something special about the parquet files written by wrangler that deviates from the snappy/parquet standard spec? Or is there a problem with the nodejs libraries and/or snzip CLI tool?

The nodejs libraries I've tried are: parquetjs parquets snappy and snappyjs