id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-query-actions,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-query-actions,"query_actions(datasette, actor, database, query_name, request, sql, params)","datasette - Datasette class You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) , or to execute SQL queries. actor - dictionary or None The currently authenticated actor . database - string The name of the database. query_name - string or None The name of the canned query, or None if this is an arbitrary SQL query. request - Request object The current HTTP request. sql - string The SQL query being executed params - dictionary The parameters passed to the SQL query, if any. Populates a ""Query actions"" menu on the canned query and arbitrary SQL query pages. This example adds a new query action linking to a page for explaining a query: from datasette import hookimpl import urllib @hookimpl def query_actions(datasette, database, query_name, sql): # Don't explain an explain if sql.lower().startswith(""explain""): return return [ { ""href"": datasette.urls.database(database) + ""?"" + urllib.parse.urlencode( { ""sql"": ""explain "" + sql, } ), ""label"": ""Explain this query"", ""description"": ""Get a summary of how SQLite executes the query"", }, ] Example: datasette-create-view","[""Plugin hooks"", ""Action hooks""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-create-view"", ""label"": ""datasette-create-view""}]"