id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references writing_plugins:writing-plugins-configuration,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-configuration,Writing plugins that accept configuration,"When you are writing plugins, you can access plugin configuration like this using the datasette plugin_config() method. If you know you need plugin configuration for a specific table, you can access it like this: plugin_config = datasette.plugin_config( ""datasette-cluster-map"", database=""sf-trees"", table=""Street_Tree_List"" ) This will return the {""latitude_column"": ""lat"", ""longitude_column"": ""lng""} in the above example. If there is no configuration for that plugin, the method will return None . If it cannot find the requested configuration at the table layer, it will fall back to the database layer and then the root layer. For example, a user may have set the plugin configuration option inside datasette.yaml like so: [[[cog from metadata_doc import metadata_example metadata_example(cog, { ""databases"": { ""sf-trees"": { ""plugins"": { ""datasette-cluster-map"": { ""latitude_column"": ""xlat"", ""longitude_column"": ""xlng"" } } } } }) ]]] [[[end]]] In this case, the above code would return that configuration for ANY table within the sf-trees database. The plugin configuration could also be set at the top level of datasette.yaml : [[[cog metadata_example(cog, { ""plugins"": { ""datasette-cluster-map"": { ""latitude_column"": ""xlat"", ""longitude_column"": ""xlng"" } } }) ]]] [[[end]]] Now that datasette-cluster-map plugin configuration will apply to every table in every database.","[""Writing plugins""]",[]