id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references
authentication:authentication-cli-create-token-restrict,authentication,authentication-cli-create-token-restrict,Restricting the actions that a token can perform,"Tokens created using  datasette create-token ACTOR_ID  will inherit all of the permissions of the actor that they are associated with. 
                     You can pass additional options to create tokens that are restricted to a subset of that actor's permissions. 
                     To restrict the token to just specific permissions against all available databases, use the  --all  option: 
                     datasette create-token root --all insert-row --all update-row 
                     This option can be passed as many times as you like. In the above example the token will only be allowed to insert and update rows. 
                     You can also restrict permissions such that they can only be used within specific databases: 
                     datasette create-token root --database mydatabase insert-row 
                     The resulting token will only be able to insert rows, and only to tables in the  mydatabase  database. 
                     Finally, you can restrict permissions to individual resources - tables, SQL views and  named queries  - within a specific database: 
                     datasette create-token root --resource mydatabase mytable insert-row 
                     These options have short versions:  -a  for  --all ,  -d  for  --database  and  -r  for  --resource . 
                     You can add  --debug  to see a JSON representation of the token that has been created. Here's a full example: 
                     datasette create-token root \
    --secret mysecret \
    --all view-instance \
    --all view-table \
    --database docs view-query \
    --resource docs documents insert-row \
    --resource docs documents update-row \
    --debug 
                     This example outputs the following: 
                     dstok_.eJxFizEKgDAMRe_y5w4qYrFXERGxDkVsMI0uxbubdjFL8l_ez1jhwEQCA6Fjjxp90qtkuHawzdjYrh8MFobLxZ_wBH0_gtnAF-hpS5VfmF8D_lnd97lHqUJgLd6sls4H1qwlhA.nH_7RecYHj5qSzvjhMU95iy0Xlc

Decoded:

{
  ""a"": ""root"",
  ""token"": ""dstok"",
  ""t"": 1670907246,
  ""_r"": {
    ""a"": [
      ""vi"",
      ""vt""
    ],
    ""d"": {
      ""docs"": [
        ""vq""
      ]
    },
    ""r"": {
      ""docs"": {
        ""documents"": [
          ""ir"",
          ""ur""
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""API Tokens"", ""datasette create-token""]",[]
json_api:rowupdateview,json_api,rowupdateview,Updating a row,"To update a row, make a  POST  to  /<database>/<table>/<row-pks>/-/update . This requires the  update-row  permission. 
                 POST /<database>/<table>/<row-pks>/-/update
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 {
    ""update"": {
        ""text_column"": ""New text string"",
        ""integer_column"": 3,
        ""float_column"": 3.14
    }
} 
                 <row-pks>  here is the  tilde-encoded  primary key value of the row to update - or a comma-separated list of primary key values if the table has a composite primary key. 
                 You only need to pass the columns you want to update. Any other columns will be left unchanged. 
                 If successful, this will return a  200  status code and a  {""ok"": true}  response body. 
                 Add  ""return"": true  to the request body to return the updated row: 
                 {
    ""update"": {
        ""title"": ""New title""
    },
    ""return"": true
} 
                 The returned JSON will look like this: 
                 {
    ""ok"": true,
    ""row"": {
        ""id"": 1,
        ""title"": ""New title"",
        ""other_column"": ""Will be present here too""
    }
} 
                 Any errors will return  {""errors"": [""... descriptive message ...""], ""ok"": false} , and a  400  status code for a bad input or a  403  status code for an authentication or permission error. 
                 Pass  ""alter: true  to automatically add any missing columns to the table. This requires the  alter-table  permission.","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
facets:facets-in-query-strings,facets,facets-in-query-strings,Facets in query strings,"To turn on faceting for specific columns on a Datasette table view, add one or more  _facet=COLUMN  parameters to the URL.
                For example, if you want to turn on facets for the  city_id  and  state  columns, construct a URL that looks like this: 
             /dbname/tablename?_facet=state&_facet=city_id 
             This works for both the HTML interface and the  .json  view.
                When enabled, facets will cause a  facet_results  block to be added to the JSON output, looking something like this: 
             {
  ""state"": {
    ""name"": ""state"",
    ""results"": [
      {
        ""value"": ""CA"",
        ""label"": ""CA"",
        ""count"": 10,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&state=CA"",
        ""selected"": false
      },
      {
        ""value"": ""MI"",
        ""label"": ""MI"",
        ""count"": 4,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&state=MI"",
        ""selected"": false
      },
      {
        ""value"": ""MC"",
        ""label"": ""MC"",
        ""count"": 1,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&state=MC"",
        ""selected"": false
      }
    ],
    ""truncated"": false
  }
  ""city_id"": {
    ""name"": ""city_id"",
    ""results"": [
      {
        ""value"": 1,
        ""label"": ""San Francisco"",
        ""count"": 6,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=1"",
        ""selected"": false
      },
      {
        ""value"": 2,
        ""label"": ""Los Angeles"",
        ""count"": 4,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=2"",
        ""selected"": false
      },
      {
        ""value"": 3,
        ""label"": ""Detroit"",
        ""count"": 4,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=3"",
        ""selected"": false
      },
      {
        ""value"": 4,
        ""label"": ""Memnonia"",
        ""count"": 1,
        ""toggle_url"": ""http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=4"",
        ""selected"": false
      }
    ],
    ""truncated"": false
  }
} 
             If Datasette detects that a column is a foreign key, the  ""label""  property will be automatically derived from the detected label column on the referenced table. 
             The default number of facet results returned is 30, controlled by the  default_facet_size  setting.
                You can increase this on an individual page by adding  ?_facet_size=100  to the query string, up to a maximum of  max_returned_rows  (which defaults to 1000).","[""Facets""]",[]
internals:internals-response-set-cookie,internals,internals-response-set-cookie,Setting cookies with response.set_cookie(),"To set cookies on the response, use the  response.set_cookie(...)  method. The method signature looks like this: 
                 def set_cookie(
    self,
    key,
    value="""",
    max_age=None,
    expires=None,
    path=""/"",
    domain=None,
    secure=False,
    httponly=False,
    samesite=""lax"",
): ... 
                 You can use this with  datasette.sign()  to set signed cookies. Here's how you would set the  ds_actor cookie  for use with Datasette  authentication : 
                 response = Response.redirect(""/"")
response.set_cookie(
    ""ds_actor"",
    datasette.sign({""a"": {""id"": ""cleopaws""}}, ""actor""),
)
return response","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Response class""]",[]
contributing:contributing-using-fixtures,contributing,contributing-using-fixtures,Using fixtures,"To run Datasette itself, type  datasette . 
             You're going to need at least one SQLite database. A quick way to get started is to use the fixtures database that Datasette uses for its own tests. 
             You can create a copy of that database by running this command: 
             python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db 
             Now you can run Datasette against the new fixtures database like so: 
             datasette fixtures.db 
             This will start a server at  http://127.0.0.1:8001/ . 
             Any changes you make in the  datasette/templates  or  datasette/static  folder will be picked up immediately (though you may need to do a force-refresh in your browser to see changes to CSS or JavaScript). 
             If you want to change Datasette's Python code you can use the  --reload  option to cause Datasette to automatically reload any time the underlying code changes: 
             datasette --reload fixtures.db 
             You can also use the  fixtures.py  script to recreate the testing version of  metadata.json  used by the unit tests. To do that: 
             python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures-metadata.json 
             Or to output the plugins used by the tests, run this: 
             python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures-metadata.json fixtures-plugins
Test tables written to fixtures.db
- metadata written to fixtures-metadata.json
Wrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/register_output_renderer.py
Wrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/view_name.py
Wrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/my_plugin.py
Wrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/messages_output_renderer.py
Wrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/my_plugin_2.py 
             Then run Datasette like this: 
             datasette fixtures.db -m fixtures-metadata.json --plugins-dir=fixtures-plugins/","[""Contributing""]",[]
publish:publish-heroku,publish,publish-heroku,Publishing to Heroku,"To publish your data using  Heroku , first create an account there and install and configure the  Heroku CLI tool . 
                 You can publish one or more databases to Heroku using the following command: 
                 datasette publish heroku mydatabase.db 
                 This will output some details about the new deployment, including a URL like this one: 
                 https://limitless-reef-88278.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku 
                 You can specify a custom app name by passing  -n my-app-name  to the publish command. This will also allow you to overwrite an existing app. 
                 Rather than deploying directly you can use the  --generate-dir  option to output the files that would be deployed to a directory: 
                 datasette publish heroku mydatabase.db --generate-dir=/tmp/deploy-this-to-heroku 
                 See  datasette publish heroku  for the full list of options for this command.","[""Publishing data"", ""datasette publish""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.heroku.com/"", ""label"": ""Heroku""}, {""href"": ""https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli"", ""label"": ""Heroku CLI tool""}]"
authentication:authentication-permissions-table,authentication,authentication-permissions-table,Access to specific tables and views,"To limit access to the  users  table in your  bakery.db  database: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    databases:
      bakery:
        tables:
          users:
            allow:
              id: '*'
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 This works for SQL views as well - you can list their names in the  ""tables""  block above in the same way as regular tables. 
                 
                     Restricting access to tables and views in this way will NOT prevent users from querying them using arbitrary SQL queries,  like this  for example. 
                     If you are restricting access to specific tables you should also use the  ""allow_sql""  block to prevent users from bypassing the limit with their own SQL queries - see  Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Access permissions in ""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+*+from+facetable"", ""label"": ""like this""}]"
authentication:authentication-permissions-database,authentication,authentication-permissions-database,Access to specific databases,"To limit access to a specific  private.db  database to just authenticated users, use the  ""allow""  block like this: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    databases:
      private:
        allow:
          id: ""*""
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]]","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Access permissions in ""]",[]
contributing:contributing-formatting-prettier,contributing,contributing-formatting-prettier,Prettier,"To install Prettier,  install Node.js  and then run the following in the root of your  datasette  repository checkout: 
                 npm install 
                 This will install Prettier in a  node_modules  directory. You can then check that your code matches the coding style like so: 
                 npm run prettier -- --check 
                 > prettier
> prettier 'datasette/static/*[!.min].js' ""--check""

Checking formatting...
[warn] datasette/static/plugins.js
[warn] Code style issues found in the above file(s). Forgot to run Prettier? 
                 You can fix any problems by running: 
                 npm run fix","[""Contributing"", ""Code formatting""]","[{""href"": ""https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/"", ""label"": ""install Node.js""}]"
custom_templates:custom-pages-404,custom_templates,custom-pages-404,Returning 404s,"To indicate that content could not be found and display the default 404 page you can use the  raise_404(message)  function: 
             {% if not rows %}
    {{ raise_404(""Content not found"") }}
{% endif %} 
             If you call  raise_404()  the other content in your template will be ignored.","[""Custom pages and templates""]",[]
json_api:tabledropview,json_api,tabledropview,Dropping tables,"To drop a table, make a  POST  to  /<database>/<table>/-/drop . This requires the  drop-table  permission. 
                 POST /<database>/<table>/-/drop
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 Without a POST body this will return a status  200  with a note about how many rows will be deleted: 
                 {
    ""ok"": true,
    ""database"": ""<database>"",
    ""table"": ""<table>"",
    ""row_count"": 5,
    ""message"": ""Pass \""confirm\"": true to confirm""
} 
                 If you pass the following POST body: 
                 {
    ""confirm"": true
} 
                 Then the table will be dropped and a status  200  response of  {""ok"": true}  will be returned. 
                 Any errors will return  {""errors"": [""... descriptive message ...""], ""ok"": false} , and a  400  status code for a bad input or a  403  status code for an authentication or permission error.","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
json_api:rowdeleteview,json_api,rowdeleteview,Deleting a row,"To delete a row, make a  POST  to  /<database>/<table>/<row-pks>/-/delete . This requires the  delete-row  permission. 
                 POST /<database>/<table>/<row-pks>/-/delete
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 <row-pks>  here is the  tilde-encoded  primary key value of the row to delete - or a comma-separated list of primary key values if the table has a composite primary key. 
                 If successful, this will return a  200  status code and a  {""ok"": true}  response body. 
                 Any errors will return  {""errors"": [""... descriptive message ...""], ""ok"": false} , and a  400  status code for a bad input or a  403  status code for an authentication or permission error.","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
json_api:tablecreateview,json_api,tablecreateview,Creating a table,"To create a table, make a  POST  to  /<database>/-/create . This requires the  create-table  permission. 
                 POST /<database>/-/create
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 {
    ""table"": ""name_of_new_table"",
    ""columns"": [
        {
            ""name"": ""id"",
            ""type"": ""integer""
        },
        {
            ""name"": ""title"",
            ""type"": ""text""
        }
    ],
    ""pk"": ""id""
} 
                 The JSON here describes the table that will be created: 
                 
                     
                         table  is the name of the table to create. This field is required. 
                     
                     
                         columns  is a list of columns to create. Each column is a dictionary with  name  and  type  keys. 
                         
                             
                                 name  is the name of the column. This is required. 
                             
                             
                                 type  is the type of the column. This is optional - if not provided,  text  will be assumed. The valid types are  text ,  integer ,  float  and  blob . 
                             
                         
                     
                     
                         pk  is the primary key for the table. This is optional - if not provided, Datasette will create a SQLite table with a hidden  rowid  column. 
                         If the primary key is an integer column, it will be configured to automatically increment for each new record. 
                         If you set this to  id  without including an  id  column in the list of  columns , Datasette will create an auto-incrementing integer ID column for you. 
                     
                     
                         pks  can be used instead of  pk  to create a compound primary key. It should be a JSON list of column names to use in that primary key. 
                     
                     
                         ignore  can be set to  true  to ignore existing rows by primary key if the table already exists. 
                     
                     
                         replace  can be set to  true  to replace existing rows by primary key if the table already exists. This requires the  update-row  permission. 
                     
                     
                         alter  can be set to  true  if you want to automatically add any missing columns to the table. This requires the  alter-table  permission. 
                     
                 
                 If the table is successfully created this will return a  201  status code and the following response: 
                 {
    ""ok"": true,
    ""database"": ""data"",
    ""table"": ""name_of_new_table"",
    ""table_url"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/data/name_of_new_table"",
    ""table_api_url"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/data/name_of_new_table.json"",
    ""schema"": ""CREATE TABLE [name_of_new_table] (\n   [id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,\n   [title] TEXT\n)""
}","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
changelog:id87,changelog,id87,0.27.1 (2019-05-09),"Tiny bugfix release: don't install  tests/  in the wrong place. Thanks, Veit Heller.","[""Changelog""]",[]
authentication:authentication-actor,authentication,authentication-actor,Actors,"Through plugins, Datasette can support both authenticated users (with cookies) and authenticated API agents (via authentication tokens). The word ""actor"" is used to cover both of these cases. 
             Every request to Datasette has an associated actor value, available in the code as  request.actor . This can be  None  for unauthenticated requests, or a JSON compatible Python dictionary for authenticated users or API agents. 
             The actor dictionary can be any shape - the design of that data structure is left up to the plugins. A useful convention is to include an  ""id""  string, as demonstrated by the ""root"" actor below. 
             Plugins can use the  actor_from_request(datasette, request)  hook to implement custom logic for authenticating an actor based on the incoming HTTP request.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
changelog:id77,changelog,id77,0.31 (2019-11-11),"This version adds compatibility with Python 3.8 and breaks compatibility with Python 3.5. 
             If you are still running Python 3.5 you should stick with  0.30.2 , which you can install like this: 
             pip install datasette==0.30.2 
             
                 
                     Format SQL button now works with read-only SQL queries - thanks, Tobias Kunze ( #602 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  ?column__notin=x,y,z  filter for table views ( #614 ) 
                 
                 
                     Table view now uses  select col1, col2, col3  instead of  select * 
                 
                 
                     Database filenames can now contain spaces - thanks, Tobias Kunze ( #590 ) 
                 
                 
                     Removed obsolete  ?_group_count=col  feature ( #504 ) 
                 
                 
                     Improved user interface and documentation for  datasette publish cloudrun  ( #608 ) 
                 
                 
                     Tables with indexes now show the  CREATE INDEX  statements on the table page ( #618 ) 
                 
                 
                     Current version of  uvicorn  is now shown on  /-/versions 
                 
                 
                     Python 3.8 is now supported! ( #622 ) 
                 
                 
                     Python 3.5 is no longer supported.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/602"", ""label"": ""#602""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/614"", ""label"": ""#614""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/590"", ""label"": ""#590""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/504"", ""label"": ""#504""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/608"", ""label"": ""#608""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/618"", ""label"": ""#618""}, {""href"": ""https://www.uvicorn.org/"", ""label"": ""uvicorn""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/622"", ""label"": ""#622""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-extra-js-urls,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-extra-js-urls,"extra_js_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)","This takes the same arguments as  extra_template_vars(...) 
                 This works in the same way as  extra_css_urls()  but for JavaScript. You can
                    return a list of URLs, a list of dictionaries or an awaitable function that returns those things: 
                 from datasette import hookimpl


@hookimpl
def extra_js_urls():
    return [
        {
            ""url"": ""https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js"",
            ""sri"": ""sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo"",
        }
    ] 
                 You can also return URLs to files from your plugin's  static/  directory, if
                    you have one: 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_js_urls():
    return [""/-/static-plugins/your-plugin/app.js""] 
                 Note that  your-plugin  here should be the hyphenated plugin name - the name that is displayed in the list on the  /-/plugins  debug page. 
                 If your code uses  JavaScript modules  you should include the  ""module"": True  key. See  Custom CSS and JavaScript  for more details. 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_js_urls():
    return [
        {
            ""url"": ""/-/static-plugins/your-plugin/app.js"",
            ""module"": True,
        }
    ] 
                 Examples:  datasette-cluster-map ,  datasette-vega","[""Plugin hooks"", ""Page extras""]","[{""href"": ""https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules"", ""label"": ""JavaScript modules""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-vega"", ""label"": ""datasette-vega""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-extra-css-urls,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-extra-css-urls,"extra_css_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)","This takes the same arguments as  extra_template_vars(...) 
                 Return a list of extra CSS URLs that should be included on the page. These can
                    take advantage of the CSS class hooks described in  Custom pages and templates . 
                 This can be a list of URLs: 
                 from datasette import hookimpl


@hookimpl
def extra_css_urls():
    return [
        ""https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css""
    ] 
                 Or a list of dictionaries defining both a URL and an
                     SRI hash : 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_css_urls():
    return [
        {
            ""url"": ""https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css"",
            ""sri"": ""sha384-9gVQ4dYFwwWSjIDZnLEWnxCjeSWFphJiwGPXr1jddIhOegiu1FwO5qRGvFXOdJZ4"",
        }
    ] 
                 This function can also return an awaitable function, useful if it needs to run any async code: 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_css_urls(datasette):
    async def inner():
        db = datasette.get_database()
        results = await db.execute(
            ""select url from css_files""
        )
        return [r[0] for r in results]

    return inner 
                 Examples:  datasette-cluster-map ,  datasette-vega","[""Plugin hooks"", ""Page extras""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.srihash.org/"", ""label"": ""SRI hash""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-vega"", ""label"": ""datasette-vega""}]"
settings:setting-template-debug,settings,setting-template-debug,template_debug,"This setting enables template context debug mode, which is useful to help understand what variables are available to custom templates when you are writing them. 
                 Enable it like this: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting template_debug 1 
                 Now you can add  ?_context=1  or  &_context=1  to any Datasette page to see the context that was passed to that template. 
                 Some examples: 
                 
                     
                         https://latest.datasette.io/?_context=1 
                     
                     
                         https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?_context=1 
                     
                     
                         https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_context=1","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/?_context=1"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/?_context=1""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?_context=1"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?_context=1""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_context=1"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_context=1""}]"
settings:setting-trace-debug,settings,setting-trace-debug,trace_debug,"This setting enables appending  ?_trace=1  to any page in order to see the SQL queries and other trace information that was used to generate that page. 
                 Enable it like this: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting trace_debug 1 
                 Some examples: 
                 
                     
                         https://latest.datasette.io/?_trace=1 
                     
                     
                         https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_trace=1 
                     
                 
                 See  datasette.tracer  for details on how to hook into this mechanism as a plugin author.","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/?_trace=1"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/?_trace=1""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_trace=1"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_trace=1""}]"
authentication:id1,authentication,id1,Built-in permissions,"This section lists all of the permission checks that are carried out by Datasette core, along with the  resource  if it was passed.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
json_api:tableinsertview,json_api,tableinsertview,Inserting rows,"This requires the  insert-row  permission. 
                 A single row can be inserted using the  ""row""  key: 
                 POST /<database>/<table>/-/insert
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 {
    ""row"": {
        ""column1"": ""value1"",
        ""column2"": ""value2""
    }
} 
                 If successful, this will return a  201  status code and the newly inserted row, for example: 
                 {
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""id"": 1,
            ""column1"": ""value1"",
            ""column2"": ""value2""
        }
    ]
} 
                 To insert multiple rows at a time, use the same API method but send a list of dictionaries as the  ""rows""  key: 
                 POST /<database>/<table>/-/insert
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 {
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""column1"": ""value1"",
            ""column2"": ""value2""
        },
        {
            ""column1"": ""value3"",
            ""column2"": ""value4""
        }
    ]
} 
                 If successful, this will return a  201  status code and a  {""ok"": true}  response body. 
                 The maximum number rows that can be submitted at once defaults to 100, but this can be changed using the  max_insert_rows  setting. 
                 To return the newly inserted rows, add the  ""return"": true  key to the request body: 
                 {
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""column1"": ""value1"",
            ""column2"": ""value2""
        },
        {
            ""column1"": ""value3"",
            ""column2"": ""value4""
        }
    ],
    ""return"": true
} 
                 This will return the same  ""rows""  key as the single row example above. There is a small performance penalty for using this option. 
                 If any of your rows have a primary key that is already in use, you will get an error and none of the rows will be inserted: 
                 {
    ""ok"": false,
    ""errors"": [
        ""UNIQUE constraint failed: new_table.id""
    ]
} 
                 Pass  ""ignore"": true  to ignore these errors and insert the other rows: 
                 {
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""id"": 1,
            ""column1"": ""value1"",
            ""column2"": ""value2""
        },
        {
            ""id"": 2,
            ""column1"": ""value3"",
            ""column2"": ""value4""
        }
    ],
    ""ignore"": true
} 
                 Or you can pass  ""replace"": true  to replace any rows with conflicting primary keys with the new values. This requires the  update-row  permission. 
                 Pass  ""alter: true  to automatically add any missing columns to the table. This requires the  alter-table  permission.","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
changelog:id152,changelog,id152,0.18 (2018-04-14),"This release introduces  support for units ,
                contributed by Russ Garrett ( #203 ).
                You can now optionally specify the units for specific columns using  metadata.json .
                Once specified, units will be displayed in the HTML view of your table. They also become
                available for use in filters - if a column is configured with a unit of distance, you can
                request all rows where that column is less than 50 meters or more than 20 feet for example. 
             
                 
                     Link foreign keys which don't have labels. [Russ Garrett] 
                     This renders unlabeled FKs as simple links. 
                     Also includes bonus fixes for two minor issues: 
                     
                         
                             In foreign key link hrefs the primary key was escaped using HTML
                                escaping rather than URL escaping. This broke some non-integer PKs. 
                         
                         
                             Print tracebacks to console when handling 500 errors. 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     Fix SQLite error when loading rows with no incoming FKs. [Russ
                        Garrett] 
                     This fixes an error caused by an invalid query when loading incoming FKs. 
                     The error was ignored due to async but it still got printed to the
                        console. 
                 
                 
                     Allow custom units to be registered with Pint. [Russ Garrett] 
                 
                 
                     Support units in filters. [Russ Garrett] 
                 
                 
                     Tidy up units support. [Russ Garrett] 
                     
                         
                             Add units to exported JSON 
                         
                         
                             Units key in metadata skeleton 
                         
                         
                             Docs 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     Initial units support. [Russ Garrett] 
                     Add support for specifying units for a column in  metadata.json  and
                        rendering them on display using
                         pint","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/metadata.html#specifying-units-for-a-column"", ""label"": ""support for units""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/203"", ""label"": ""#203""}, {""href"": ""https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"", ""label"": ""pint""}]"
changelog:id43,changelog,id43,0.52 (2020-11-28),"This release includes a number of changes relating to an internal rebranding effort: Datasette's  configuration  mechanism (things like  datasette --config default_page_size:10 ) has been renamed to  settings . 
             
                 
                     New  --setting default_page_size 10  option as a replacement for  --config default_page_size:10  (note the lack of a colon). The  --config  option is deprecated but will continue working until Datasette 1.0. ( #992 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  /-/config  introspection page is now  /-/settings , and the previous page redirects to the new one. ( #1103 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  config.json  file in  Configuration directory mode  is now called  settings.json . ( #1104 ) 
                 
                 
                     The undocumented  datasette.config()  internal method has been replaced by a documented  .setting(key)  method. ( #1107 ) 
                 
             
             Also in this release: 
             
                 
                     New plugin hook:  database_actions(datasette, actor, database, request) , which adds menu items to a new cog menu shown at the top of the database page. ( #1077 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette publish cloudrun  has a new  --apt-get-install  option that can be used to install additional Ubuntu packages as part of the deployment. This is useful for deploying the new  datasette-ripgrep plugin . ( #1110 ) 
                 
                 
                     Swept the documentation to remove words that minimize involved difficulty. ( #1089 ) 
                 
             
             And some bug fixes: 
             
                 
                     Foreign keys linking to rows with blank label columns now display as a hyphen, allowing those links to be clicked. ( #1086 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where row pages could sometimes 500 if the underlying queries exceeded a time limit. ( #1088 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a bug where the table action menu could appear partially obscured by the edge of the page. ( #1084 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/992"", ""label"": ""#992""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1103"", ""label"": ""#1103""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1104"", ""label"": ""#1104""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1107"", ""label"": ""#1107""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1077"", ""label"": ""#1077""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ripgrep"", ""label"": ""datasette-ripgrep plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1110"", ""label"": ""#1110""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1089"", ""label"": ""#1089""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1086"", ""label"": ""#1086""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1088"", ""label"": ""#1088""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1084"", ""label"": ""#1084""}]"
changelog:id31,changelog,id31,0.56.1 (2021-06-05),"This release fixes a  reflected cross-site scripting  security hole with the  ?_trace=1  feature. You should upgrade to this version, or to Datasette 0.57, as soon as possible. ( #1360 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/#reflected-xss-attacks"", ""label"": ""reflected cross-site scripting""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1360"", ""label"": ""#1360""}]"
changelog:id30,changelog,id30,0.57 (2021-06-05),"This release fixes a  reflected cross-site scripting  security hole with the  ?_trace=1  feature. You should upgrade to this version, or to Datasette 0.56.1, as soon as possible. ( #1360 ) 
             
             In addition to the security fix, this release includes  ?_col=  and  ?_nocol=  options for controlling which columns are displayed for a table,  ?_facet_size=  for increasing the number of facet results returned, re-display of your SQL query should an error occur and numerous bug fixes.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/#reflected-xss-attacks"", ""label"": ""reflected cross-site scripting""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1360"", ""label"": ""#1360""}]"
changelog:id114,changelog,id114,0.23 (2018-06-18),"This release features CSV export, improved options for foreign key expansions,
                new configuration settings and improved support for SpatiaLite. 
             See  datasette/compare/0.22.1...0.23  for a full list of
                commits added since the last release.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/compare/0.22.1...0.23"", ""label"": ""datasette/compare/0.22.1...0.23""}]"
changelog:id57,changelog,id57,0.46 (2020-08-09),"This release contains a security fix related to authenticated writable canned queries. If you are using this feature you should upgrade as soon as possible. 
             
             
                 
                     Security fix:  CSRF tokens were incorrectly included in read-only canned query forms, which could allow them to be leaked to a sophisticated attacker. See  issue 918  for details. 
                 
                 
                     Datasette now supports GraphQL via the new  datasette-graphql  plugin - see  GraphQL in Datasette with the new datasette-graphql plugin . 
                 
                 
                     Principle git branch has been renamed from  master  to  main . ( #849 ) 
                 
                 
                     New debugging tool:  /-/allow-debug tool  ( demo here ) helps test allow blocks against actors, as described in  Defining permissions with ""allow"" blocks . ( #908 ) 
                 
                 
                     New logo for the documentation, and a new project tagline: ""An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data"". 
                 
                 
                     Whitespace in column values is now respected on display, using  white-space: pre-wrap . ( #896 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  await request.post_body()  method for accessing the raw POST body, see  Request object . ( #897 ) 
                 
                 
                     Database file downloads now include a  content-length  HTTP header, enabling download progress bars. ( #905 ) 
                 
                 
                     File downloads now also correctly set the suggested file name using a  content-disposition  HTTP header. ( #909 ) 
                 
                 
                     tests  are now excluded from the Datasette package properly - thanks, abeyerpath. ( #456 ) 
                 
                 
                     The Datasette package published to PyPI now includes  sdist  as well as  bdist_wheel . 
                 
                 
                     Better titles for canned query pages. ( #887 ) 
                 
                 
                     Now only loads Python files from a directory passed using the  --plugins-dir  option - thanks, Amjith Ramanujam. ( #890 ) 
                 
                 
                     New documentation section on  Publishing to Vercel .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/918"", ""label"": ""issue 918""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-graphql"", ""label"": ""datasette-graphql""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Aug/7/datasette-graphql/"", ""label"": ""GraphQL in Datasette with the new datasette-graphql plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/849"", ""label"": ""#849""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug"", ""label"": ""demo here""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/908"", ""label"": ""#908""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/896"", ""label"": ""#896""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/897"", ""label"": ""#897""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/905"", ""label"": ""#905""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/909"", ""label"": ""#909""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/456"", ""label"": ""#456""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/887"", ""label"": ""#887""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/890"", ""label"": ""#890""}]"
internals:internals-datasette,internals,internals-datasette,Datasette class,"This object is an instance of the  Datasette  class, passed to many plugin hooks as an argument called  datasette . 
             You can create your own instance of this - for example to help write tests for a plugin - like so: 
             from datasette.app import Datasette

# With no arguments a single in-memory database will be attached
datasette = Datasette()

# The files= argument can load files from disk
datasette = Datasette(files=[""/path/to/my-database.db""])

# Pass metadata as a JSON dictionary like this
datasette = Datasette(
    files=[""/path/to/my-database.db""],
    metadata={
        ""databases"": {
            ""my-database"": {
                ""description"": ""This is my database""
            }
        }
    },
) 
             Constructor parameters include: 
             
                 
                     files=[...]  - a list of database files to open 
                 
                 
                     immutables=[...]  - a list of database files to open in immutable mode 
                 
                 
                     metadata={...}  - a dictionary of  Metadata 
                 
                 
                     config_dir=...  - the  configuration directory  to use, stored in  datasette.config_dir","[""Internals for plugins""]",[]
javascript_plugins:javascript-plugins-makecolumnactions,javascript_plugins,javascript-plugins-makecolumnactions,makeColumnActions(columnDetails),"This method, if present, will be called when Datasette is rendering the cog action menu icons that appear at the top of the table view. By default these include options like ""Sort ascending/descending"" and ""Facet by this"", but plugins can return additional actions to be included in this menu. 
                 The method will be called with a  columnDetails  object with the following keys: 
                 
                     
                         columnName  - string 
                         
                             The name of the column 
                         
                     
                     
                         columnNotNull  - boolean 
                         
                             True if the column is defined as NOT NULL 
                         
                     
                     
                         columnType  - string 
                         
                             The SQLite data type of the column 
                         
                     
                     
                         isPk  - boolean 
                         
                             True if the column is part of the primary key 
                         
                     
                 
                 It should return a JavaScript array of objects each with a  label  and  onClick  property: 
                 
                     
                         label  - string 
                         
                             The human-readable label for the action 
                         
                     
                     
                         onClick(evt)  - function 
                         
                             A function that will be called when the action is clicked 
                         
                     
                 
                 The  evt  object passed to the  onClick  is the standard browser event object that triggered the click. 
                 This example plugin adds two menu items - one to copy the column name to the clipboard and another that displays the column metadata in an  alert()  window: 
                 document.addEventListener('datasette_init', function(ev) {
  ev.detail.registerPlugin('column-name-plugin', {
    version: 0.1,
    makeColumnActions: (columnDetails) => {
      return [
        {
          label: 'Copy column to clipboard',
          onClick: async (evt) => {
            await navigator.clipboard.writeText(columnDetails.columnName)
          }
        },
        {
          label: 'Alert column metadata',
          onClick: () => alert(JSON.stringify(columnDetails, null, 2))
        }
      ];
    }
  });
});","[""JavaScript plugins"", ""JavaScript plugin objects""]",[]
internals:database-execute-write-fn,internals,database-execute-write-fn,"await db.execute_write_fn(fn, block=True, transaction=True)","This method works like  .execute_write() , but instead of a SQL statement you give it a callable Python function. Your function will be queued up and then called when the write connection is available, passing that connection as the argument to the function. 
                 The function can then perform multiple actions, safe in the knowledge that it has exclusive access to the single writable connection for as long as it is executing. 
                 
                     fn  needs to be a regular function, not an  async def  function. 
                 
                 For example: 
                 def delete_and_return_count(conn):
    conn.execute(""delete from some_table where id > 5"")
    return conn.execute(
        ""select count(*) from some_table""
    ).fetchone()[0]


try:
    num_rows_left = await database.execute_write_fn(
        delete_and_return_count
    )
except Exception as e:
    print(""An error occurred:"", e) 
                 The value returned from  await database.execute_write_fn(...)  will be the return value from your function. 
                 If your function raises an exception that exception will be propagated up to the  await  line. 
                 By default your function will be executed inside a transaction. You can pass  transaction=False  to disable this behavior, though if you do that you should be careful to manually apply transactions - ideally using the  with conn:  pattern, or you may see  OperationalError: database table is locked  errors. 
                 If you specify  block=False  the method becomes fire-and-forget, queueing your function to be executed and then allowing your code after the call to  .execute_write_fn()  to continue running while the underlying thread waits for an opportunity to run your function. A UUID representing the queued task will be returned. Any exceptions in your code will be silently swallowed.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
internals:database-execute-isolated-fn,internals,database-execute-isolated-fn,await db.execute_isolated_fn(fn),"This method works is similar to  execute_write_fn()  but executes the provided function in an entirely isolated SQLite connection, which is opened, used and then closed again in a single call to this method. 
                 The  prepare_connection()  plugin hook is not executed against this connection. 
                 This allows plugins to execute database operations that might conflict with how database connections are usually configured. For example, running a  VACUUM  operation while bypassing any restrictions placed by the  datasette-sqlite-authorizer  plugin. 
                 Plugins can also use this method to load potentially dangerous SQLite extensions, use them to perform an operation and then have them safely unloaded at the end of the call, without risk of exposing them to other connections. 
                 Functions run using  execute_isolated_fn()  share the same queue as  execute_write_fn() , which guarantees that no writes can be executed at the same time as the isolated function is executing. 
                 The return value of the function will be returned by this method. Any exceptions raised by the function will be raised out of the  await  line as well.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/datasette/datasette-sqlite-authorizer"", ""label"": ""datasette-sqlite-authorizer""}]"
javascript_plugins:javascript-plugins-makeabovetablepanelconfigs,javascript_plugins,javascript-plugins-makeabovetablepanelconfigs,makeAboveTablePanelConfigs(),"This method should return a JavaScript array of objects defining additional panels to be added to the top of the table page. Each object should have the following: 
                 
                     
                         id  - string 
                         
                             A unique string ID for the panel, for example  map-panel 
                         
                     
                     
                         label  - string 
                         
                             A human-readable label for the panel 
                         
                     
                     
                         render(node)  - function 
                         
                             A function that will be called with a DOM node to render the panel into 
                         
                     
                 
                 This example shows how a plugin might define a single panel: 
                 document.addEventListener('datasette_init', function(ev) {
  ev.detail.registerPlugin('panel-plugin', {
    version: 0.1,
    makeAboveTablePanelConfigs: () => {
      return [
        {
          id: 'first-panel',
          label: 'First panel',
          render: node => {
            node.innerHTML = '<h2>My custom panel</h2><p>This is a custom panel that I added using a JavaScript plugin</p>';
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  });
}); 
                 When a page with a table loads, all registered plugins that implement  makeAboveTablePanelConfigs()  will be called and panels they return will be added to the top of the table page.","[""JavaScript plugins"", ""JavaScript plugin objects""]",[]
settings:setting-facet-time-limit-ms,settings,setting-facet-time-limit-ms,facet_time_limit_ms,"This is the time limit Datasette allows for calculating a facet, which defaults to 200ms: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting facet_time_limit_ms 1000","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
changelog:id145,changelog,id145,0.19 (2018-04-16),"This is the first preview of the new Datasette plugins mechanism. Only two
                plugin hooks are available so far - for custom SQL functions and custom template
                filters. There's plenty more to come - read  the documentation  and get involved in
                 the tracking ticket  if you
                have feedback on the direction so far. 
             
                 
                     Fix for  _sort_desc=sortable_with_nulls  test, refs  #216 
                 
                 
                     Fixed  #216  - paginate correctly when sorting by nullable column 
                 
                 
                     Initial documentation for plugins, closes  #213 
                     https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins.html 
                 
                 
                     New  --plugins-dir=plugins/  option ( #212 ) 
                     New option causing Datasette to load and evaluate all of the Python files in
                        the specified directory and register any plugins that are defined in those
                        files. 
                     This new option is available for the following commands: 
                     datasette serve mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/
datasette publish now/heroku mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/
datasette package mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/ 
                 
                 
                     Start of the plugin system, based on pluggy ( #210 ) 
                     Uses  https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/  originally created for the py.test project 
                     We're starting with two plugin hooks: 
                     prepare_connection(conn) 
                     This is called when a new SQLite connection is created. It can be used to register custom SQL functions. 
                     prepare_jinja2_environment(env) 
                     This is called with the Jinja2 environment. It can be used to register custom template tags and filters. 
                     An example plugin which uses these two hooks can be found at  https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos  or installed using  pip install datasette-plugin-demos 
                     Refs  #14 
                 
                 
                     Return HTTP 405 on InvalidUsage rather than 500. [Russ Garrett] 
                     This also stops it filling up the logs. This happens for HEAD requests
                        at the moment - which perhaps should be handled better, but that's a
                        different issue.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins.html"", ""label"": ""the documentation""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/14"", ""label"": ""the tracking ticket""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/216"", ""label"": ""#216""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/216"", ""label"": ""#216""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/213"", ""label"": ""#213""}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins.html"", ""label"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins.html""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/212"", ""label"": ""#212""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/14"", ""label"": ""#210""}, {""href"": ""https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos"", ""label"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/14"", ""label"": ""#14""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-startup,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-startup,startup(datasette),"This hook fires when the Datasette application server first starts up. 
             Here is an example that validates required plugin configuration. The server will fail to start and show an error if the validation check fails: 
             @hookimpl
def startup(datasette):
    config = datasette.plugin_config(""my-plugin"") or {}
    assert (
        ""required-setting"" in config
    ), ""my-plugin requires setting required-setting"" 
             You can also return an async function, which will be awaited on startup. Use this option if you need to execute any database queries, for example this function which creates the  my_table  database table if it does not yet exist: 
             @hookimpl
def startup(datasette):
    async def inner():
        db = datasette.get_database()
        if ""my_table"" not in await db.table_names():
            await db.execute_write(
                """"""
                create table my_table (mycol text)
            """"""
            )

    return inner 
             Potential use-cases: 
             
                 
                     Run some initialization code for the plugin 
                 
                 
                     Create database tables that a plugin needs on startup 
                 
                 
                     Validate the configuration for a plugin on startup, and raise an error if it is invalid 
                 
             
             
                 If you are writing  unit tests  for a plugin that uses this hook and doesn't exercise Datasette by sending
                    any simulated requests through it you will need to explicitly call  await ds.invoke_startup()  in your tests. An example: 
                 @pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_my_plugin():
    ds = Datasette()
    await ds.invoke_startup()
    # Rest of test goes here 
             
             Examples:  datasette-saved-queries ,  datasette-init","[""Plugin hooks""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-saved-queries"", ""label"": ""datasette-saved-queries""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-init"", ""label"": ""datasette-init""}]"
internals:internals-utils-parse-metadata,internals,internals-utils-parse-metadata,parse_metadata(content),"This function accepts a string containing either JSON or YAML, expected to be of the format described in  Metadata . It returns a nested Python dictionary representing the parsed data from that string. 
                 If the metadata cannot be parsed as either JSON or YAML the function will raise a  utils.BadMetadataError  exception. 
                 
                 
                     datasette.utils. parse_metadata content :   str dict 
                     
                         Detects if content is JSON or YAML and parses it appropriately.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""The datasette.utils module""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a0,changelog,v1-0-a0,1.0a0 (2022-11-29),"This first alpha release of Datasette 1.0 introduces a brand new collection of APIs for writing to the database ( #1850 ), as well as a new API token mechanism baked into Datasette core. Previously, API tokens have only been supported by installing additional plugins. 
             This is very much a preview: expect many more backwards incompatible API changes prior to the full 1.0 release. 
             Feedback enthusiastically welcomed, either through  issue comments  or via the  Datasette Discord  community.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1850"", ""label"": ""#1850""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1850"", ""label"": ""issue comments""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/discord"", ""label"": ""Datasette Discord""}]"
cli-reference:cli-help-serve-help,cli-reference,cli-help-serve-help,datasette serve,"This command starts the Datasette web application running on your machine: 
             datasette serve mydatabase.db 
             Or since this is the default command you can run this instead: 
             datasette mydatabase.db 
             Once started you can access it at  http://localhost:8001 
             [[[cog
help([""serve"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette serve [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

  Serve up specified SQLite database files with a web UI

Options:
  -i, --immutable PATH            Database files to open in immutable mode
  -h, --host TEXT                 Host for server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1 which
                                  means only connections from the local machine
                                  will be allowed. Use 0.0.0.0 to listen to all
                                  IPs and allow access from other machines.
  -p, --port INTEGER RANGE        Port for server, defaults to 8001. Use -p 0 to
                                  automatically assign an available port.
                                  [0<=x<=65535]
  --uds TEXT                      Bind to a Unix domain socket
  --reload                        Automatically reload if code or metadata
                                  change detected - useful for development
  --cors                          Enable CORS by serving Access-Control-Allow-
                                  Origin: *
  --load-extension PATH:ENTRYPOINT?
                                  Path to a SQLite extension to load, and
                                  optional entrypoint
  --inspect-file TEXT             Path to JSON file created using ""datasette
                                  inspect""
  -m, --metadata FILENAME         Path to JSON/YAML file containing
                                  license/source metadata
  --template-dir DIRECTORY        Path to directory containing custom templates
  --plugins-dir DIRECTORY         Path to directory containing custom plugins
  --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY        Serve static files from this directory at
                                  /MOUNT/...
  --memory                        Make /_memory database available
  -c, --config FILENAME           Path to JSON/YAML Datasette configuration file
  -s, --setting SETTING...        nested.key, value setting to use in Datasette
                                  configuration
  --secret TEXT                   Secret used for signing secure values, such as
                                  signed cookies
  --root                          Output URL that sets a cookie authenticating
                                  the root user
  --get TEXT                      Run an HTTP GET request against this path,
                                  print results and exit
  --token TEXT                    API token to send with --get requests
  --actor TEXT                    Actor to use for --get requests (JSON string)
  --version-note TEXT             Additional note to show on /-/versions
  --help-settings                 Show available settings
  --pdb                           Launch debugger on any errors
  -o, --open                      Open Datasette in your web browser
  --create                        Create database files if they do not exist
  --crossdb                       Enable cross-database joins using the /_memory
                                  database
  --nolock                        Ignore locking, open locked files in read-only
                                  mode
  --ssl-keyfile TEXT              SSL key file
  --ssl-certfile TEXT             SSL certificate file
  --internal PATH                 Path to a persistent Datasette internal SQLite
                                  database
  --help                          Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
cli-reference:cli-help-serve-help-settings,cli-reference,cli-help-serve-help-settings,datasette serve --help-settings,"This command outputs all of the available Datasette  settings . 
                 These can be passed to  datasette serve  using  datasette serve --setting name value . 
                 [[[cog
help([""--help-settings""]) 
                 ]]] 
                 Settings:
  default_page_size            Default page size for the table view
                               (default=100)
  max_returned_rows            Maximum rows that can be returned from a table or
                               custom query (default=1000)
  max_insert_rows              Maximum rows that can be inserted at a time using
                               the bulk insert API (default=100)
  num_sql_threads              Number of threads in the thread pool for
                               executing SQLite queries (default=3)
  sql_time_limit_ms            Time limit for a SQL query in milliseconds
                               (default=1000)
  default_facet_size           Number of values to return for requested facets
                               (default=30)
  facet_time_limit_ms          Time limit for calculating a requested facet
                               (default=200)
  facet_suggest_time_limit_ms  Time limit for calculating a suggested facet
                               (default=50)
  allow_facet                  Allow users to specify columns to facet using
                               ?_facet= parameter (default=True)
  allow_download               Allow users to download the original SQLite
                               database files (default=True)
  allow_signed_tokens          Allow users to create and use signed API tokens
                               (default=True)
  default_allow_sql            Allow anyone to run arbitrary SQL queries
                               (default=True)
  max_signed_tokens_ttl        Maximum allowed expiry time for signed API tokens
                               (default=0)
  suggest_facets               Calculate and display suggested facets
                               (default=True)
  default_cache_ttl            Default HTTP cache TTL (used in Cache-Control:
                               max-age= header) (default=5)
  cache_size_kb                SQLite cache size in KB (0 == use SQLite default)
                               (default=0)
  allow_csv_stream             Allow .csv?_stream=1 to download all rows
                               (ignoring max_returned_rows) (default=True)
  max_csv_mb                   Maximum size allowed for CSV export in MB - set 0
                               to disable this limit (default=100)
  truncate_cells_html          Truncate cells longer than this in HTML table
                               view - set 0 to disable (default=2048)
  force_https_urls             Force URLs in API output to always use https://
                               protocol (default=False)
  template_debug               Allow display of template debug information with
                               ?_context=1 (default=False)
  trace_debug                  Allow display of SQL trace debug information with
                               ?_trace=1 (default=False)
  base_url                     Datasette URLs should use this base path
                               (default=/) 
                 [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference"", ""datasette serve""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a3,changelog,v1-0-a3,1.0a3 (2023-08-09),"This alpha release previews the updated design for Datasette's default JSON API. ( #782 ) 
             The new  default JSON representation  for both table pages ( /dbname/table.json ) and arbitrary SQL queries ( /dbname.json?sql=... ) is now shaped like this: 
             {
  ""ok"": true,
  ""rows"": [
    {
      ""id"": 3,
      ""name"": ""Detroit""
    },
    {
      ""id"": 2,
      ""name"": ""Los Angeles""
    },
    {
      ""id"": 4,
      ""name"": ""Memnonia""
    },
    {
      ""id"": 1,
      ""name"": ""San Francisco""
    }
  ],
  ""truncated"": false
} 
             Tables will include an additional  ""next""  key for pagination, which can be passed to  ?_next=  to fetch the next page of results. 
             The various  ?_shape=  options continue to work as before - see  Different shapes  for details. 
             A new  ?_extra=  mechanism is available for tables, but has not yet been stabilized or documented. Details on that are available in  #262 .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/782"", ""label"": ""#782""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/262"", ""label"": ""#262""}]"
changelog:v1-0-a8,changelog,v1-0-a8,1.0a8 (2024-02-07),"This alpha release continues the migration of Datasette's configuration from  metadata.yaml  to the new  datasette.yaml  configuration file, introduces a new system for JavaScript plugins and adds several new plugin hooks. 
             See  Datasette 1.0a8: JavaScript plugins, new plugin hooks and plugin configuration in datasette.yaml  for an annotated version of these release notes.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/7/datasette-1a8/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 1.0a8: JavaScript plugins, new plugin hooks and plugin configuration in datasette.yaml""}]"
changelog:v1-0-a9,changelog,v1-0-a9,1.0a9 (2024-02-16),This alpha release adds basic alter table support to the Datasette Write API and fixes a permissions bug relating to the  /upsert  API endpoint.,"[""Changelog""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a4,changelog,v1-0-a4,1.0a4 (2023-08-21),"This alpha fixes a security issue with the  /-/api  API explorer. On authenticated Datasette instances (instances protected using plugins such as  datasette-auth-passwords ) the API explorer interface could reveal the names of databases and tables within the protected instance. The data stored in those tables was not revealed. 
             For more information and workarounds, read  the security advisory . The issue has been present in every previous alpha version of Datasette 1.0: versions 1.0a0, 1.0a1, 1.0a2 and 1.0a3. 
             Also in this alpha: 
             
                 
                     The new  datasette plugins --requirements  option outputs a list of currently installed plugins in Python  requirements.txt  format, useful for duplicating that installation elsewhere. ( #2133 ) 
                 
                 
                     Writable canned queries  can now define a  on_success_message_sql  field in their configuration, containing a SQL query that should be executed upon successful completion of the write operation in order to generate a message to be shown to the user. ( #2138 ) 
                 
                 
                     The automatically generated border color for a database is now shown in more places around the application. ( #2119 ) 
                 
                 
                     Every instance of example shell script code in the documentation should now include a working copy button, free from additional syntax. ( #2140 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-auth-passwords"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-passwords""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/security/advisories/GHSA-7ch3-7pp7-7cpq"", ""label"": ""the security advisory""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2133"", ""label"": ""#2133""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2138"", ""label"": ""#2138""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2119"", ""label"": ""#2119""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2140"", ""label"": ""#2140""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-page-extras,plugin_hooks,plugin-page-extras,Page extras,These plugin hooks can be used to affect the way HTML pages for different Datasette interfaces are rendered.,"[""Plugin hooks""]",[]
javascript_plugins:javascript-datasette-manager-selectors,javascript_plugins,javascript-datasette-manager-selectors,Selectors,"These are available on the  selectors  property of the  datasetteManager  object. 
             const DOM_SELECTORS = {
  /** Should have one match */
  jsonExportLink: "".export-links a[href*=json]"",

  /** Event listeners that go outside of the main table, e.g. existing scroll listener */
  tableWrapper: "".table-wrapper"",
  table: ""table.rows-and-columns"",
  aboveTablePanel: "".above-table-panel"",

  // These could have multiple matches
  /** Used for selecting table headers. Use makeColumnActions if you want to add menu items. */
  tableHeaders: `table.rows-and-columns th`,

  /** Used to add ""where""  clauses to query using direct manipulation */
  filterRows: "".filter-row"",
  /** Used to show top available enum values for a column (""facets"") */
  facetResults: "".facet-results [data-column]"",
};","[""JavaScript plugins""]",[]
authentication:authentication-permissions-config,authentication,authentication-permissions-config,Access permissions in ,"There are two ways to configure permissions using  datasette.yaml  (or  datasette.json ). 
             For simple visibility permissions you can use  ""allow""  blocks in the root, database, table and query sections. 
             For other permissions you can use a  ""permissions""  block, described  in the next section . 
             You can limit who is allowed to view different parts of your Datasette instance using  ""allow""  keys in your  Configuration . 
             You can control the following: 
             
                 
                     Access to the entire Datasette instance 
                 
                 
                     Access to specific databases 
                 
                 
                     Access to specific tables and views 
                 
                 
                     Access to specific  Canned queries 
                 
             
             If a user cannot access a specific database, they will not be able to access tables, views or queries within that database. If a user cannot access the instance they will not be able to access any of the databases, tables, views or queries.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
full_text_search:full-text-search-fts-versions,full_text_search,full-text-search-fts-versions,FTS versions,"There are three different versions of the SQLite FTS module: FTS3, FTS4 and FTS5. You can tell which versions are supported by your instance of Datasette by checking the  /-/versions  page. 
             FTS5 is the most advanced module but may not be available in the SQLite version that is bundled with your Python installation. Most importantly, FTS5 is the only version that has the ability to order by search relevance without needing extra code. 
             If you can't be sure that FTS5 will be available, you should use FTS4.","[""Full-text search""]",[]
changelog:id35,changelog,id35,0.54 (2021-01-25),"The two big new features in this release are the  _internal  SQLite in-memory database storing details of all connected databases and tables, and support for JavaScript modules in plugins and additional scripts. 
             For additional commentary on this release, see  Datasette 0.54, the annotated release notes .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jan/25/datasette/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 0.54, the annotated release notes""}]"
metadata:metadata-source-license-about,metadata,metadata-source-license-about,"Source, license and about","The three visible metadata fields you can apply to everything, specific databases or specific tables are source, license and about. All three are optional. 
             source  and  source_url  should be used to indicate where the underlying data came from. 
             license  and  license_url  should be used to indicate the license under which the data can be used. 
             about  and  about_url  can be used to link to further information about the project - an accompanying blog entry for example. 
             For each of these you can provide just the  *_url  field and Datasette will treat that as the default link label text and display the URL directly on the page.","[""Metadata""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a2,changelog,v1-0-a2,1.0a2 (2022-12-14),"The third Datasette 1.0 alpha release adds upsert support to the JSON API, plus the ability to specify finely grained permissions when creating an API token. 
             See  Datasette 1.0a2: Upserts and finely grained permissions  for an extended, annotated version of these release notes. 
             
                 
                     New  /db/table/-/upsert  API,  documented here . upsert is an update-or-insert: existing rows will have specified keys updated, but if no row matches the incoming primary key a brand new row will be inserted instead. ( #1878 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  register_permissions(datasette)  plugin hook. Plugins can now register named permissions, which will then be listed in various interfaces that show available permissions. ( #1940 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  /db/-/create  API for  creating a table  now accepts  ""ignore"": true  and  ""replace"": true  options when called with the  ""rows""  property that creates a new table based on an example set of rows. This means the API can be called multiple times with different rows, setting rules for what should happen if a primary key collides with an existing row. ( #1927 ) 
                 
                 
                     Arbitrary permissions can now be configured at the instance, database and resource (table, SQL view or canned query) level in Datasette's  Metadata  JSON and YAML files. The new  ""permissions""  key can be used to specify which actors should have which permissions. See  Other permissions in datasette.yaml  for details. ( #1636 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  /-/create-token  page can now be used to create API tokens which are restricted to just a subset of actions, including against specific databases or resources. See  API Tokens  for details. ( #1947 ) 
                 
                 
                     Likewise, the  datasette create-token  CLI command can now create tokens with  a subset of permissions . ( #1855 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette.create_token() API method  for programmatically creating signed API tokens. ( #1951 ) 
                 
                 
                     /db/-/create  API now requires actor to have  insert-row  permission in order to use the  ""row""  or  ""rows""  properties. ( #1937 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/15/datasette-1a2/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 1.0a2: Upserts and finely grained permissions""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1878"", ""label"": ""#1878""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1940"", ""label"": ""#1940""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1927"", ""label"": ""#1927""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1636"", ""label"": ""#1636""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1947"", ""label"": ""#1947""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1855"", ""label"": ""#1855""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1951"", ""label"": ""#1951""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1937"", ""label"": ""#1937""}]"
changelog:id174,changelog,id174,0.14 (2017-12-09),"The theme of this release is customization: Datasette now allows every aspect
                of its presentation  to be customized 
                either using additional CSS or by providing entirely new templates. 
             Datasette's  metadata.json format 
                has also been expanded, to allow per-database and per-table metadata. A new
                 datasette skeleton  command can be used to generate a skeleton JSON file
                ready to be filled in with per-database and per-table details. 
             The  metadata.json  file can also be used to define
                 canned queries ,
                as a more powerful alternative to SQL views. 
             
                 
                     extra_css_urls / extra_js_urls  in metadata 
                     A mechanism in the  metadata.json  format for adding custom CSS and JS urls. 
                     Create a  metadata.json  file that looks like this: 
                     {
    ""extra_css_urls"": [
        ""https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css""
    ],
    ""extra_js_urls"": [
        ""https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js""
    ]
} 
                     Then start datasette like this: 
                     datasette mydb.db --metadata=metadata.json 
                     The CSS and JavaScript files will be linked in the  <head>  of every page. 
                     You can also specify a SRI (subresource integrity hash) for these assets: 
                     {
    ""extra_css_urls"": [
        {
            ""url"": ""https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css"",
            ""sri"": ""sha384-9qIZekWUyjCyDIf2YK1FRoKiPJq4PHt6tp/ulnuuyRBvazd0hG7pWbE99zvwSznI""
        }
    ],
    ""extra_js_urls"": [
        {
            ""url"": ""https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js"",
            ""sri"": ""sha256-k2WSCIexGzOj3Euiig+TlR8gA0EmPjuc79OEeY5L45g=""
        }
    ]
} 
                     Modern browsers will only execute the stylesheet or JavaScript if the SRI hash
                        matches the content served. You can generate hashes using  https://www.srihash.org/ 
                 
                 
                     Auto-link column values that look like URLs ( #153 ) 
                 
                 
                     CSS styling hooks as classes on the body ( #153 ) 
                     Every template now gets CSS classes in the body designed to support custom
                        styling. 
                     The index template (the top level page at  / ) gets this: 
                     <body class=""index""> 
                     The database template ( /dbname/ ) gets this: 
                     <body class=""db db-dbname""> 
                     The table template ( /dbname/tablename ) gets: 
                     <body class=""table db-dbname table-tablename""> 
                     The row template ( /dbname/tablename/rowid ) gets: 
                     <body class=""row db-dbname table-tablename""> 
                     The  db-x  and  table-x  classes use the database or table names themselves IF
                        they are valid CSS identifiers. If they aren't, we strip any invalid
                        characters out and append a 6 character md5 digest of the original name, in
                        order to ensure that multiple tables which resolve to the same stripped
                        character version still have different CSS classes. 
                     Some examples (extracted from the unit tests): 
                     ""simple"" => ""simple""
""MixedCase"" => ""MixedCase""
""-no-leading-hyphens"" => ""no-leading-hyphens-65bea6""
""_no-leading-underscores"" => ""no-leading-underscores-b921bc""
""no spaces"" => ""no-spaces-7088d7""
""-"" => ""336d5e""
""no $ characters"" => ""no--characters-59e024"" 
                 
                 
                     datasette --template-dir=mytemplates/  argument 
                     You can now pass an additional argument specifying a directory to look for
                        custom templates in. 
                     Datasette will fall back on the default templates if a template is not
                        found in that directory. 
                 
                 
                     Ability to over-ride templates for individual tables/databases. 
                     It is now possible to over-ride templates on a per-database / per-row or per-
                        table basis. 
                     When you access e.g.  /mydatabase/mytable  Datasette will look for the following: 
                     - table-mydatabase-mytable.html
- table.html 
                     If you provided a  --template-dir  argument to datasette serve it will look in
                        that directory first. 
                     The lookup rules are as follows: 
                     Index page (/):
    index.html

Database page (/mydatabase):
    database-mydatabase.html
    database.html

Table page (/mydatabase/mytable):
    table-mydatabase-mytable.html
    table.html

Row page (/mydatabase/mytable/id):
    row-mydatabase-mytable.html
    row.html 
                     If a table name has spaces or other unexpected characters in it, the template
                        filename will follow the same rules as our custom  <body>  CSS classes
                        - for example, a table called ""Food Trucks""
                        will attempt to load the following templates: 
                     table-mydatabase-Food-Trucks-399138.html
table.html 
                     It is possible to extend the default templates using Jinja template
                        inheritance. If you want to customize EVERY row template with some additional
                        content you can do so by creating a row.html template like this: 
                     {% extends ""default:row.html"" %}

{% block content %}
<h1>EXTRA HTML AT THE TOP OF THE CONTENT BLOCK</h1>
<p>This line renders the original block:</p>
{{ super() }}
{% endblock %} 
                 
                 
                     --static  option for datasette serve ( #160 ) 
                     You can now tell Datasette to serve static files from a specific location at a
                        specific mountpoint. 
                     For example: 
                     datasette serve mydb.db --static extra-css:/tmp/static/css 
                     Now if you visit this URL: 
                     http://localhost:8001/extra-css/blah.css 
                     The following file will be served: 
                     /tmp/static/css/blah.css 
                 
                 
                     Canned query support. 
                     Named canned queries can now be defined in  metadata.json  like this: 
                     {
    ""databases"": {
        ""timezones"": {
            ""queries"": {
                ""timezone_for_point"": ""select tzid from timezones ...""
            }
        }
    }
} 
                     These will be shown in a new ""Queries"" section beneath ""Views"" on the database page. 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette skeleton  command for generating  metadata.json  ( #164 ) 
                 
                 
                     metadata.json  support for per-table/per-database metadata ( #165 ) 
                     Also added support for descriptions and HTML descriptions. 
                     Here's an example metadata.json file illustrating custom per-database and per-
                        table metadata: 
                     {
    ""title"": ""Overall datasette title"",
    ""description_html"": ""This is a <em>description with HTML</em>."",
    ""databases"": {
        ""db1"": {
            ""title"": ""First database"",
            ""description"": ""This is a string description & has no HTML"",
            ""license_url"": ""http://example.com/"",
        ""license"": ""The example license"",
            ""queries"": {
              ""canned_query"": ""select * from table1 limit 3;""
            },
            ""tables"": {
                ""table1"": {
                    ""title"": ""Custom title for table1"",
                    ""description"": ""Tables can have descriptions too"",
                    ""source"": ""This has a custom source"",
                    ""source_url"": ""http://example.com/""
                }
            }
        }
    }
} 
                 
                 
                     Renamed  datasette build  command to  datasette inspect  ( #130 ) 
                 
                 
                     Upgrade to Sanic 0.7.0 ( #168 ) 
                     https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.7.0 
                 
                 
                     Package and publish commands now accept  --static  and  --template-dir 
                     Example usage: 
                     datasette package --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \
  sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --tag sf-trees --branch master 
                     This creates a local Docker image that includes copies of the templates/,
                        extra-css/ and extra-js/ directories. You can then run it like this: 
                     docker run -p 8001:8001 sf-trees 
                     For publishing to Zeit now: 
                     datasette publish now --static css:extra-css/ --static js:extra-js/ \
  sf-trees.db --template-dir templates/ --name sf-trees --branch master 
                 
                 
                     HTML comment showing which templates were considered for a page ( #171 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/custom_templates.html"", ""label"": ""to be customized""}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/metadata.html"", ""label"": ""metadata.json format""}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/sql_queries.html#canned-queries"", ""label"": ""canned queries""}, {""href"": ""https://www.srihash.org/"", ""label"": ""https://www.srihash.org/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/153"", ""label"": ""#153""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/153"", ""label"": ""#153""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/160"", ""label"": ""#160""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/164"", ""label"": ""#164""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/165"", ""label"": ""#165""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/130"", ""label"": ""#130""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/168"", ""label"": ""#168""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.7.0"", ""label"": ""https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.7.0""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/171"", ""label"": ""#171""}]"
pages:tableview,pages,tableview,Table,"The table page is the heart of Datasette: it allows users to interactively explore the contents of a database table, including sorting, filtering,  Full-text search  and applying  Facets . 
             The HTML interface is worth spending some time exploring. As with other pages, you can return the JSON data by appending  .json  to the URL path, before any  ?  query string arguments. 
             The query string arguments are described in more detail here:  Table arguments 
             You can also use the table page to interactively construct a SQL query - by applying different filters and a sort order for example - and then click the ""View and edit SQL"" link to see the SQL query that was used for the page and edit and re-submit it. 
             Some examples: 
             
                 
                     ../items  lists all of the line-items registered by UK MPs as potential conflicts of interest. It demonstrates Datasette's support for  Full-text search . 
                 
                 
                     ../antiquities-act%2Factions_under_antiquities_act  is an interface for exploring the ""actions under the antiquities act"" data table published by FiveThirtyEight. 
                 
                 
                     ../global-power-plants?country_long=United+Kingdom&primary_fuel=Gas  is a filtered table page showing every Gas power plant in the United Kingdom. It includes some default facets (configured using  its metadata.json ) and uses the  datasette-cluster-map  plugin to show a map of the results.","[""Pages and API endpoints""]","[{""href"": ""https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/regmem/items"", ""label"": ""../items""}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/antiquities-act%2Factions_under_antiquities_act"", ""label"": ""../antiquities-act%2Factions_under_antiquities_act""}, {""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants/global-power-plants?_facet=primary_fuel&_facet=owner&_facet=country_long&country_long__exact=United+Kingdom&primary_fuel=Gas"", ""label"": ""../global-power-plants?country_long=United+Kingdom&primary_fuel=Gas""}, {""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/-/metadata"", ""label"": ""its metadata.json""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}]"
authentication:authentication-permissions-allow,authentication,authentication-permissions-allow,"Defining permissions with ""allow"" blocks","The standard way to define permissions in Datasette is to use an  ""allow""  block  in the datasette.yaml file . This is a JSON document describing which actors are allowed to perform a permission. 
                 The most basic form of allow block is this ( allow demo ,  deny demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow:
      id: root
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 This will match any actors with an  ""id""  property of  ""root""  - for example, an actor that looks like this: 
                 {
    ""id"": ""root"",
    ""name"": ""Root User""
} 
                 An allow block can specify ""deny all"" using  false  ( demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow: false
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 An  ""allow""  of  true  allows all access ( demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow: true
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Allow keys can provide a list of values. These will match any actor that has any of those values ( allow demo ,  deny demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow:
      id:
      - simon
      - cleopaws
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 This will match any actor with an  ""id""  of either  ""simon""  or  ""cleopaws"" . 
                 Actors can have properties that feature a list of values. These will be matched against the list of values in an allow block. Consider the following actor: 
                 {
    ""id"": ""simon"",
    ""roles"": [""staff"", ""developer""]
} 
                 This allow block will provide access to any actor that has  ""developer""  as one of their roles ( allow demo ,  deny demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow:
      roles:
      - developer
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Note that ""roles"" is not a concept that is baked into Datasette - it's a convention that plugins can choose to implement and act on. 
                 If you want to provide access to any actor with a value for a specific key, use  ""*"" . For example, to match any logged-in user specify the following ( allow demo ,  deny demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow:
      id: ""*""
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 You can specify that only unauthenticated actors (from anonymous HTTP requests) should be allowed access using the special  ""unauthenticated"": true  key in an allow block ( allow demo ,  deny demo ): 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow:
      unauthenticated: true
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Allow keys act as an ""or"" mechanism. An actor will be able to execute the query if any of their JSON properties match any of the values in the corresponding lists in the  allow  block. The following block will allow users with either a  role  of  ""ops""  OR users who have an  id  of  ""simon""  or  ""cleopaws"" : 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    allow:
      id:
      - simon
      - cleopaws
      role: ops
    """""").strip(),
    ""YAML"", ""JSON""
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Demo for cleopaws ,  demo for ops role ,  demo for an actor matching neither rule .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%22id%22%3A+%22root%22%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++++++%22id%22%3A+%22root%22%0D%0A++++%7D"", ""label"": ""allow demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%22id%22%3A+%22trevor%22%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++++++%22id%22%3A+%22root%22%0D%0A++++%7D"", ""label"": ""deny demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22root%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=false"", ""label"": ""demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22root%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=true"", ""label"": ""demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22simon%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""allow demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22pancakes%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22simon%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""deny demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22simon%22%2C%0D%0A++++%22roles%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22staff%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22developer%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22roles%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22developer%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""allow demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22cleopaws%22%2C%0D%0A++++%22roles%22%3A+%5B%22dog%22%5D%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22roles%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22developer%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""deny demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22simon%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22*%22%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""allow demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22bot%22%3A+%22readme-bot%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22*%22%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""deny demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=null&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22unauthenticated%22%3A+true%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""allow demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22hello%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22unauthenticated%22%3A+true%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""deny demo""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22simon%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A++++%5D%2C%0D%0A++++%22role%22%3A+%22ops%22%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""Demo for cleopaws""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22trevor%22%2C%0D%0A++++%22role%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22ops%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22staff%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22simon%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A++++%5D%2C%0D%0A++++%22role%22%3A+%22ops%22%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""demo for ops role""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug?actor=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%22percy%22%2C%0D%0A++++%22role%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22staff%22%0D%0A++++%5D%0D%0A%7D&allow=%7B%0D%0A++++%22id%22%3A+%5B%0D%0A++++++++%22simon%22%2C%0D%0A++++++++%22cleopaws%22%0D%0A++++%5D%2C%0D%0A++++%22role%22%3A+%22ops%22%0D%0A%7D"", ""label"": ""demo for an actor matching neither rule""}]"
pages:indexview,pages,indexview,Top-level index,"The root page of any Datasette installation is an index page that lists all of the currently attached databases. Some examples: 
             
                 
                     fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com 
                 
                 
                     global-power-plants.datasettes.com 
                 
                 
                     register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com 
                 
             
             Add  /.json  to the end of the URL for the JSON version of the underlying data: 
             
                 
                     fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/.json 
                 
                 
                     global-power-plants.datasettes.com/.json 
                 
                 
                     register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/.json","[""Pages and API endpoints""]","[{""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/"", ""label"": ""fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com""}, {""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/"", ""label"": ""global-power-plants.datasettes.com""}, {""href"": ""https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/"", ""label"": ""register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com""}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/.json"", ""label"": ""fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/.json""}, {""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/.json"", ""label"": ""global-power-plants.datasettes.com/.json""}, {""href"": ""https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/.json"", ""label"": ""register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/.json""}]"
internals:internals-request,internals,internals-request,Request object,"The request object is passed to various plugin hooks. It represents an incoming HTTP request. It has the following properties: 
             
                 
                     .scope  - dictionary 
                     
                         The ASGI scope that was used to construct this request, described in the  ASGI HTTP connection scope  specification. 
                     
                 
                 
                     .method  - string 
                     
                         The HTTP method for this request, usually  GET  or  POST . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .url  - string 
                     
                         The full URL for this request, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .scheme  - string 
                     
                         The request scheme - usually  https  or  http . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .headers  - dictionary (str -> str) 
                     
                         A dictionary of incoming HTTP request headers. Header names have been converted to lowercase. 
                     
                 
                 
                     .cookies  - dictionary (str -> str) 
                     
                         A dictionary of incoming cookies 
                     
                 
                 
                     .host  - string 
                     
                         The host header from the incoming request, e.g.  latest.datasette.io  or  localhost . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .path  - string 
                     
                         The path of the request excluding the query string, e.g.  /fixtures . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .full_path  - string 
                     
                         The path of the request including the query string if one is present, e.g.  /fixtures?sql=select+sqlite_version() . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .query_string  - string 
                     
                         The query string component of the request, without the  ?  - e.g.  name__contains=sam&age__gt=10 . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .args  - MultiParams 
                     
                         An object representing the parsed query string parameters, see below. 
                     
                 
                 
                     .url_vars  - dictionary (str -> str) 
                     
                         Variables extracted from the URL path, if that path was defined using a regular expression. See  register_routes(datasette) . 
                     
                 
                 
                     .actor  - dictionary (str -> Any) or None 
                     
                         The currently authenticated actor (see  actors ), or  None  if the request is unauthenticated. 
                     
                 
             
             The object also has two awaitable methods: 
             
                 
                     await request.post_vars()  - dictionary 
                     
                         Returns a dictionary of form variables that were submitted in the request body via  POST . Don't forget to read about  CSRF protection ! 
                     
                 
                 
                     await request.post_body()  - bytes 
                     
                         Returns the un-parsed body of a request submitted by  POST  - useful for things like incoming JSON data. 
                     
                 
             
             And a class method that can be used to create fake request objects for use in tests: 
             
                 
                     fake(path_with_query_string, method=""GET"", scheme=""http"", url_vars=None) 
                     
                         Returns a  Request  instance for the specified path and method. For example: 
                         from datasette import Request
from pprint import pprint

request = Request.fake(
    ""/fixtures/facetable/"",
    url_vars={""database"": ""fixtures"", ""table"": ""facetable""},
)
pprint(request.scope) 
                         This outputs: 
                         {'http_version': '1.1',
 'method': 'GET',
 'path': '/fixtures/facetable/',
 'query_string': b'',
 'raw_path': b'/fixtures/facetable/',
 'scheme': 'http',
 'type': 'http',
 'url_route': {'kwargs': {'database': 'fixtures', 'table': 'facetable'}}}","[""Internals for plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specs/www.html#connection-scope"", ""label"": ""ASGI HTTP connection scope""}]"
configuration:configuration-cli,configuration,configuration-cli,Configuration via the command-line,"The recommended way to configure Datasette is using a  datasette.yaml  file passed to  -c/--config . You can also pass individual settings to Datasette using the  -s/--setting  option, which can be used multiple times: 
             datasette mydatabase.db \
  --setting settings.default_page_size 50 \
  --setting settings.sql_time_limit_ms 3500 
             This option takes dotted-notation for the first argument and a value for the second argument. This means you can use it to set any configuration value that would be valid in a  datasette.yaml  file. 
             It also works for plugin configuration, for example for  datasette-cluster-map : 
             datasette mydatabase.db \
  --setting plugins.datasette-cluster-map.latitude_column xlat \
  --setting plugins.datasette-cluster-map.longitude_column xlon 
             If the value you provide is a valid JSON object or list it will be treated as nested data, allowing you to configure plugins that accept lists such as  datasette-proxy-url : 
             datasette mydatabase.db \
  -s plugins.datasette-proxy-url.paths '[{""path"": ""/proxy"", ""backend"": ""http://example.com/""}]' 
             This is equivalent to a  datasette.yaml  file containing the following: 
             [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
  plugins:
    datasette-proxy-url:
      paths:
      - path: /proxy
        backend: http://example.com/
  """""").strip()
  ) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Configuration""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-proxy-url"", ""label"": ""datasette-proxy-url""}]"
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-one-off,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-one-off,Writing one-off plugins,"The quickest way to start writing a plugin is to create a  my_plugin.py  file and drop it into your  plugins/  directory. Here is an example plugin, which adds a new custom SQL function called  hello_world()  which takes no arguments and returns the string  Hello world! . 
             from datasette import hookimpl


@hookimpl
def prepare_connection(conn):
    conn.create_function(
        ""hello_world"", 0, lambda: ""Hello world!""
    ) 
             If you save this in  plugins/my_plugin.py  you can then start Datasette like this: 
             datasette serve mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/ 
             Now you can navigate to  http://localhost:8001/mydb  and run this SQL: 
             select hello_world(); 
             To see the output of your plugin.","[""Writing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""http://localhost:8001/mydb"", ""label"": ""http://localhost:8001/mydb""}]"
deploying:deploying,deploying,deploying,Deploying Datasette,"The quickest way to deploy a Datasette instance on the internet is to use the  datasette publish  command, described in  Publishing data . This can be used to quickly deploy Datasette to a number of hosting providers including Heroku, Google Cloud Run and Vercel. 
         You can deploy Datasette to other hosting providers using the instructions on this page.",[],[]
changelog:better-plugin-documentation,changelog,better-plugin-documentation,Better plugin documentation,"The plugin documentation has been re-arranged into four sections, including a brand new section on testing plugins. ( #687 ) 
                 
                     
                         Plugins  introduces Datasette's plugin system and describes how to install and configure plugins. 
                     
                     
                         Writing plugins  describes how to author plugins, from  one-off single file plugins to packaged plugins that can be published to PyPI. It also describes how to start a plugin using the new  datasette-plugin  cookiecutter template. 
                     
                     
                         Plugin hooks  is a full list of detailed documentation for every Datasette plugin hook. 
                     
                     
                         Testing plugins  describes how to write tests for Datasette plugins, using  pytest  and  HTTPX .","[""Changelog"", ""0.45 (2020-07-01)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/687"", ""label"": ""#687""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin"", ""label"": ""datasette-plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://docs.pytest.org/"", ""label"": ""pytest""}, {""href"": ""https://www.python-httpx.org/"", ""label"": ""HTTPX""}]"
facets:speeding-up-facets-with-indexes,facets,speeding-up-facets-with-indexes,Speeding up facets with indexes,"The performance of facets can be greatly improved by adding indexes on the columns you wish to facet by.
                Adding indexes can be performed using the  sqlite3  command-line utility. Here's how to add an index on the  state  column in a table called  Food_Trucks : 
             sqlite3 mydatabase.db 
             SQLite version 3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:48:08
Enter "".help"" for usage hints.
sqlite> CREATE INDEX Food_Trucks_state ON Food_Trucks(""state""); 
             Or using the  sqlite-utils  command-line utility: 
             sqlite-utils create-index mydatabase.db Food_Trucks state","[""Facets""]","[{""href"": ""https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#creating-indexes"", ""label"": ""sqlite-utils""}]"
authentication:logoutview,authentication,logoutview,The /-/logout page,The page at  /-/logout  provides the ability to log out of a  ds_actor  cookie authentication session.,"[""Authentication and permissions"", ""The ds_actor cookie""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a10,changelog,v1-0-a10,1.0a10 (2024-02-17),"The only changes in this alpha correspond to the way Datasette handles database transactions. ( #2277 ) 
             
                 
                     The  database.execute_write_fn()  method has a new  transaction=True  parameter. This defaults to  True  which means all functions executed using this method are now automatically wrapped in a transaction - previously the functions needed to roll transaction handling on their own, and many did not. 
                 
                 
                     Pass  transaction=False  to  execute_write_fn()  if you want to manually handle transactions in your function. 
                 
                 
                     Several internal Datasette features, including parts of the  JSON write API , had been failing to wrap their operations in a transaction. This has been fixed by the new  transaction=True  default.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2277"", ""label"": ""#2277""}]"
changelog:faceting,changelog,faceting,Faceting,"The number of unique values in a facet is now always displayed. Previously it was only displayed if the user specified  ?_facet_size=max . ( #1556 ) 
                     
                     
                         Facets of type  date  or  array  can now be configured in  metadata.json , see  Facets in metadata . Thanks, David Larlet. ( #1552 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  ?_nosuggest=1  parameter for table views, which disables facet suggestion. ( #1557 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed bug where  ?_facet_array=tags&_facet=tags  would only display one of the two selected facets. ( #625 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.60 (2022-01-13)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1556"", ""label"": ""#1556""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1552"", ""label"": ""#1552""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1557"", ""label"": ""#1557""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/625"", ""label"": ""#625""}]"
changelog:url-building,changelog,url-building,URL building,"The new  datasette.urls  family of methods can be used to generate URLs to key pages within the Datasette interface, both within custom templates and Datasette plugins. See  Building URLs within plugins  for more details. ( #904 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.51 (2020-10-31)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/904"", ""label"": ""#904""}]"
changelog:other-changes,changelog,other-changes,Other changes,"The new  DATASETTE_TRACE_PLUGINS=1 environment variable  turns on detailed trace output for every executed plugin hook, useful for debugging and understanding how the plugin system works at a low level. ( #2274 ) 
                     
                     
                         Datasette on Python 3.9 or above marks its non-cryptographic uses of the MD5 hash function as  usedforsecurity=False , for compatibility with FIPS systems. ( #2270 ) 
                     
                     
                         SQL relating to  Datasette's internal database  now executes inside a transaction, avoiding a potential database locked error. ( #2273 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  /-/threads  debug page now identifies the database in the name associated with each dedicated write thread. ( #2265 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  /db/-/create  API now fires a  insert-rows  event if rows were inserted after the table was created. ( #2260 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a9 (2024-02-16)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2274"", ""label"": ""#2274""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2270"", ""label"": ""#2270""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2273"", ""label"": ""#2273""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2265"", ""label"": ""#2265""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2260"", ""label"": ""#2260""}]"
changelog:through-for-joins-through-many-to-many-tables,changelog,through-for-joins-through-many-to-many-tables,?_through= for joins through many-to-many tables,"The new  ?_through={json}  argument to the Table view allows records to be filtered based on a many-to-many relationship. See  Special table arguments  for full documentation - here's  an example . ( #355 ) 
                 This feature was added to help support  facet by many-to-many , which isn't quite ready yet but will be coming in the next Datasette release.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_through={%22table%22:%22roadside_attraction_characteristics%22,%22column%22:%22characteristic_id%22,%22value%22:%221%22}"", ""label"": ""an example""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/355"", ""label"": ""#355""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/551"", ""label"": ""facet by many-to-many""}]"
settings:setting-max-csv-mb,settings,setting-max-csv-mb,max_csv_mb,"The maximum size of CSV that can be exported, in megabytes. Defaults to 100MB.
                    You can disable the limit entirely by settings this to 0: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_csv_mb 0","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
changelog:id62,changelog,id62,0.43 (2020-05-28),"The main focus of this release is a major upgrade to the  register_output_renderer(datasette)  plugin hook, which allows plugins to provide new output formats for Datasette such as  datasette-atom  and  datasette-ics . 
             
                 
                     Redesign of  register_output_renderer(datasette)  to provide more context to the render callback and support an optional  ""can_render""  callback that controls if a suggested link to the output format is provided. ( #581 ,  #770 ) 
                 
                 
                     Visually distinguish float and integer columns - useful for figuring out why order-by-column might be returning unexpected results. ( #729 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  Request object , which is passed to several plugin hooks, is now documented. ( #706 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  metadata.json  option for setting a custom default page size for specific tables and views, see  Setting a custom page size . ( #751 ) 
                 
                 
                     Canned queries can now be configured with a default URL fragment hash, useful when working with plugins such as  datasette-vega , see  Additional canned query options . ( #706 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a bug in  datasette publish  when running on operating systems where the  /tmp  directory lives in a different volume, using a backport of the Python 3.8  shutil.copytree()  function. ( #744 ) 
                 
                 
                     Every plugin hook is now covered by the unit tests, and a new unit test checks that each plugin hook has at least one corresponding test. ( #771 ,  #773 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom"", ""label"": ""datasette-atom""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ics"", ""label"": ""datasette-ics""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/581"", ""label"": ""#581""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/770"", ""label"": ""#770""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/729"", ""label"": ""#729""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/706"", ""label"": ""#706""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/751"", ""label"": ""#751""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-vega"", ""label"": ""datasette-vega""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/706"", ""label"": ""#706""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/744"", ""label"": ""#744""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/771"", ""label"": ""#771""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/773"", ""label"": ""#773""}]"
changelog:id49,changelog,id49,0.50 (2020-10-09),"The key new feature in this release is the  column actions  menu on the table page ( #891 ). This can be used to sort a column in ascending or descending order, facet data by that column or filter the table to just rows that have a value for that column. 
             Plugin authors can use the new  datasette.client  object to make internal HTTP requests from their plugins, allowing them to make use of Datasette's JSON API. ( #943 ) 
             New  Deploying Datasette  documentation with guides for deploying Datasette on a Linux server  using systemd  or to hosting providers  that support buildpacks . ( #514 ,  #997 ) 
             Other improvements in this release: 
             
                 
                     Publishing to Google Cloud Run  documentation now covers Google Cloud SDK options. Thanks, Geoffrey Hing. ( #995 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette -o  option which opens your browser as soon as Datasette starts up. ( #970 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette now sets  sqlite3.enable_callback_tracebacks(True)  so that errors in custom SQL functions will display tracebacks. ( #891 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed two rendering bugs with column headers in portrait mobile view. ( #978 ,  #980 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  db.table_column_details(table)  introspection method for retrieving full details of the columns in a specific table, see  Database introspection . 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a routing bug with custom page wildcard templates. ( #996 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette publish heroku  now deploys using Python 3.8.6. 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette publish heroku --tar=  option. ( #969 ) 
                 
                 
                     OPTIONS  requests against HTML pages no longer return a 500 error. ( #1001 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette now supports Python 3.9. 
                 
             
             See also  Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/891"", ""label"": ""#891""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/943"", ""label"": ""#943""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/514"", ""label"": ""#514""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/997"", ""label"": ""#997""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/995"", ""label"": ""#995""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/970"", ""label"": ""#970""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/891"", ""label"": ""#891""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/978"", ""label"": ""#978""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/980"", ""label"": ""#980""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/996"", ""label"": ""#996""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/969"", ""label"": ""#969""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1001"", ""label"": ""#1001""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/datasette-0-50/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-slots,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-slots,Template slots,"The following set of plugin hooks can be used to return extra HTML content that will be inserted into the corresponding page, directly below the  <h1>  heading. 
             Multiple plugins can contribute content here. The order in which it is displayed can be controlled using Pluggy's  call time order options . 
             Each of these plugin hooks can return either a string or an awaitable function that returns a string.","[""Plugin hooks""]","[{""href"": ""https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#call-time-order"", ""label"": ""call time order options""}]"
csv_export:csv-export-url-parameters,csv_export,csv-export-url-parameters,URL parameters,"The following options can be used to customize the CSVs returned by Datasette. 
             
                 
                     ?_header=off 
                     
                         This removes the first row of the CSV file specifying the headings - only the row data will be returned. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_stream=on 
                     
                         Stream all matching records, not just the first page of results. See below. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_dl=on 
                     
                         Causes Datasette to return a  content-disposition: attachment; filename=""filename.csv""  header.","[""CSV export""]",[]
settings:id2,settings,id2,Settings,"The following options can be set using  --setting name value , or by storing them in the  settings.json  file for use with  Configuration directory mode .","[""Settings""]",[]
configuration:configuration-reference,configuration,configuration-reference,,"The following example shows some of the valid configuration options that can exist inside  datasette.yaml . 
             [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    # Datasette settings block
    settings:
      default_page_size: 50
      sql_time_limit_ms: 3500
      max_returned_rows: 2000

    # top-level plugin configuration
    plugins:
      datasette-my-plugin:
        key: valueA

    # Database and table-level configuration
    databases:
      your_db_name:
        # plugin configuration for the your_db_name database
        plugins:
          datasette-my-plugin:
            key: valueA
        tables:
          your_table_name:
            allow:
              # Only the root user can access this table
              id: root
            # plugin configuration for the your_table_name table
            # inside your_db_name database
            plugins:
              datasette-my-plugin:
                key: valueB
    """""")
  ) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Configuration""]",[]
internals:internals-shortcuts,internals,internals-shortcuts,Import shortcuts,"The following commonly used symbols can be imported directly from the  datasette  module: 
             from datasette import Response
from datasette import Forbidden
from datasette import NotFound
from datasette import hookimpl
from datasette import actor_matches_allow","[""Internals for plugins""]",[]
spatialite:installing-spatialite-on-os-x,spatialite,installing-spatialite-on-os-x,Installing SpatiaLite on OS X,"The easiest way to install SpatiaLite on OS X is to use  Homebrew . 
                 brew update
brew install spatialite-tools 
                 This will install the  spatialite  command-line tool and the  mod_spatialite  dynamic library. 
                 You can now run Datasette like so: 
                 datasette --load-extension=spatialite","[""SpatiaLite"", ""Installation""]","[{""href"": ""https://brew.sh/"", ""label"": ""Homebrew""}]"
contributing:contributing-continuous-deployment,contributing,contributing-continuous-deployment,Continuously deployed demo instances,"The demo instance at  latest.datasette.io  is re-deployed automatically to Google Cloud Run for every push to  main  that passes the test suite. This is implemented by the GitHub Actions workflow at  .github/workflows/deploy-latest.yml . 
             Specific branches can also be set to automatically deploy by adding them to the  on: push: branches  block at the top of the workflow YAML file. Branches configured in this way will be deployed to a new Cloud Run service whether or not their tests pass. 
             The Cloud Run URL for a branch demo can be found in the GitHub Actions logs.","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""latest.datasette.io""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy-latest.yml"", ""label"": "".github/workflows/deploy-latest.yml""}]"
settings:setting-default-facet-size,settings,setting-default-facet-size,default_facet_size,"The default number of unique rows returned by  Facets  is 30. You can customize it like this: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_facet_size 50","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
settings:setting-default-page-size,settings,setting-default-page-size,default_page_size,"The default number of rows returned by the table page. You can over-ride this on a per-page basis using the  ?_size=80  query string parameter, provided you do not specify a value higher than the  max_returned_rows  setting. You can set this default using  --setting  like so: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_page_size 50","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
json_api:json-api-default,json_api,json-api-default,Default representation,"The default JSON representation of data from a SQLite table or custom query
                looks like this: 
             {
  ""ok"": true,
  ""rows"": [
    {
      ""id"": 3,
      ""name"": ""Detroit""
    },
    {
      ""id"": 2,
      ""name"": ""Los Angeles""
    },
    {
      ""id"": 4,
      ""name"": ""Memnonia""
    },
    {
      ""id"": 1,
      ""name"": ""San Francisco""
    }
  ],
  ""truncated"": false
} 
             ""ok""  is always  true  if an error did not occur. 
             The  ""rows""  key is a list of objects, each one representing a row. 
             The  ""truncated""  key lets you know if the query was truncated. This can happen if a SQL query returns more than 1,000 results (or the  max_returned_rows  setting). 
             For table pages, an additional key  ""next""  may be present. This indicates that the next page in the pagination set can be retrieved using  ?_next=VALUE .","[""JSON API""]",[]
json_api:json-api-pagination,json_api,json-api-pagination,Pagination,"The default JSON representation includes a  ""next_url""  key which can be used to access the next page of results. If that key is null or missing then it means you have reached the final page of results. 
             Other representations include pagination information in the  link  HTTP header. That header will look something like this: 
             link: <https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/sortable.json?_next=d%2Cv>; rel=""next"" 
             Here is an example Python function built using  requests  that returns a list of all of the paginated items from one of these API endpoints: 
             def paginate(url):
    items = []
    while url:
        response = requests.get(url)
        try:
            url = response.links.get(""next"").get(""url"")
        except AttributeError:
            url = None
        items.extend(response.json())
    return items","[""JSON API""]","[{""href"": ""https://requests.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""requests""}]"
authentication:permissionsdebugview,authentication,permissionsdebugview,The permissions debug tool,"The debug tool at  /-/permissions  is only available to the  authenticated root user  (or any actor granted the  permissions-debug  action). 
             It shows the thirty most recent permission checks that have been carried out by the Datasette instance. 
             It also provides an interface for running hypothetical permission checks against a hypothetical actor. This is a useful way of confirming that your configured permissions work in the way you expect. 
             This is designed to help administrators and plugin authors understand exactly how permission checks are being carried out, in order to effectively configure Datasette's permission system.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
introspection:messagesdebugview,introspection,messagesdebugview,/-/messages,"The debug tool at  /-/messages  can be used to set flash messages to try out that feature. See  .add_message(request, message, type=datasette.INFO)  for details of this feature.","[""Introspection""]",[]
changelog:id161,changelog,id161,0.15 (2018-04-09),"The biggest new feature in this release is the ability to sort by column. On the
                table page the column headers can now be clicked to apply sort (or descending
                sort), or you can specify  ?_sort=column  or  ?_sort_desc=column  directly
                in the URL. 
             
                 
                     table_rows  =>  table_rows_count ,  filtered_table_rows  =>
                         filtered_table_rows_count 
                     Renamed properties. Closes  #194 
                 
                 
                     New  sortable_columns  option in  metadata.json  to control sort options. 
                     You can now explicitly set which columns in a table can be used for sorting
                        using the  _sort  and  _sort_desc  arguments using  metadata.json : 
                     {
    ""databases"": {
        ""database1"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""sortable_columns"": [
                        ""height"",
                        ""weight""
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
} 
                     Refs  #189 
                 
                 
                     Column headers now link to sort/desc sort - refs  #189 
                 
                 
                     _sort  and  _sort_desc  parameters for table views 
                     Allows for paginated sorted results based on a specified column. 
                     Refs  #189 
                 
                 
                     Total row count now correct even if  _next  applied 
                 
                 
                     Use .custom_sql() for _group_count implementation (refs  #150 ) 
                 
                 
                     Make HTML title more readable in query template ( #180 ) [Ryan Pitts] 
                 
                 
                     New  ?_shape=objects/object/lists  param for JSON API ( #192 ) 
                     New  _shape=  parameter replacing old  .jsono  extension 
                     Now instead of this: 
                     /database/table.jsono 
                     We use the  _shape  parameter like this: 
                     /database/table.json?_shape=objects 
                     Also introduced a new  _shape  called  object  which looks like this: 
                     /database/table.json?_shape=object 
                     Returning an object for the rows key: 
                     ...
""rows"": {
    ""pk1"": {
        ...
    },
    ""pk2"": {
        ...
    }
} 
                     Refs  #122 
                 
                 
                     Utility for writing test database fixtures to a .db file 
                     python tests/fixtures.py /tmp/hello.db 
                     This is useful for making a SQLite database of the test fixtures for
                        interactive exploration. 
                 
                 
                     Compound primary key  _next=  now plays well with extra filters 
                     Closes  #190 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug with keyset pagination over compound primary keys 
                     Refs  #190 
                 
                 
                     Database/Table views inherit  source/license/source_url/license_url 
                        metadata 
                     If you set the  source_url/license_url/source/license  fields in your root
                        metadata those values will now be inherited all the way down to the database
                        and table templates. 
                     The  title/description  are NOT inherited. 
                     Also added unit tests for the HTML generated by the metadata. 
                     Refs  #185 
                 
                 
                     Add metadata, if it exists, to heroku temp dir ( #178 ) [Tony Hirst] 
                 
                 
                     Initial documentation for pagination 
                 
                 
                     Broke up test_app into test_api and test_html 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug with .json path regular expression 
                     I had a table called  geojson  and it caused an exception because the regex
                        was matching  .json  and not  \.json 
                 
                 
                     Deploy to Heroku with Python 3.6.3","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/194"", ""label"": ""#194""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189"", ""label"": ""#189""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189"", ""label"": ""#189""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189"", ""label"": ""#189""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/150"", ""label"": ""#150""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/180"", ""label"": ""#180""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/192"", ""label"": ""#192""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/122"", ""label"": ""#122""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/190"", ""label"": ""#190""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/190"", ""label"": ""#190""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/185"", ""label"": ""#185""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/178"", ""label"": ""#178""}]"
changelog:id118,changelog,id118,0.22 (2018-05-20),"The big new feature in this release is  Facets . Datasette can now apply faceted browse to any column in any table. It will also suggest possible facets. See the  Datasette Facets  announcement post for more details. 
             In addition to the work on facets: 
             
                 
                     Added  docs for introspection endpoints 
                 
                 
                     New  --config  option, added  --help-config , closes  #274 
                     Removed the  --page_size=  argument to  datasette serve  in favour of: 
                     datasette serve --config default_page_size:50 mydb.db 
                     Added new help section: 
                     datasette --help-config 
                     Config options:
  default_page_size            Default page size for the table view
                               (default=100)
  max_returned_rows            Maximum rows that can be returned from a table
                               or custom query (default=1000)
  sql_time_limit_ms            Time limit for a SQL query in milliseconds
                               (default=1000)
  default_facet_size           Number of values to return for requested facets
                               (default=30)
  facet_time_limit_ms          Time limit for calculating a requested facet
                               (default=200)
  facet_suggest_time_limit_ms  Time limit for calculating a suggested facet
                               (default=50) 
                 
                 
                     Only apply responsive table styles to  .rows-and-column 
                     Otherwise they interfere with tables in the description, e.g. on
                         https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/nba-elo%2Fnbaallelo 
                 
                 
                     Refactored views into new  views/  modules, refs  #256 
                 
                 
                     Documentation for SQLite full-text search  support, closes  #253 
                 
                 
                     /-/versions  now includes SQLite  fts_versions , closes  #252","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2018/May/20/datasette-facets/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Facets""}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/introspection.html"", ""label"": ""docs for introspection endpoints""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/274"", ""label"": ""#274""}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/nba-elo%2Fnbaallelo"", ""label"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/nba-elo%2Fnbaallelo""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/256"", ""label"": ""#256""}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/full_text_search.html"", ""label"": ""Documentation for SQLite full-text search""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/253"", ""label"": ""#253""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/252"", ""label"": ""#252""}]"
getting_started:getting-started-demo,getting_started,getting-started-demo,Play with a live demo,"The best way to experience Datasette for the first time is with a demo: 
             
                 
                     global-power-plants.datasettes.com  provides a searchable database of power plants around the world, using data from the  World Resources Institude  rendered using the  datasette-cluster-map  plugin. 
                 
                 
                     fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com  shows Datasette running against over 400 datasets imported from the  FiveThirtyEight GitHub repository .","[""Getting started""]","[{""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants/global-power-plants"", ""label"": ""global-power-plants.datasettes.com""}, {""href"": ""https://www.wri.org/publication/global-power-plant-database"", ""label"": ""World Resources Institude""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight"", ""label"": ""fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data"", ""label"": ""FiveThirtyEight GitHub repository""}]"
testing_plugins:testing-plugins-datasette-test-instance,testing_plugins,testing-plugins-datasette-test-instance,Setting up a Datasette test instance,"The above example shows the easiest way to start writing tests against a Datasette instance: 
             from datasette.app import Datasette
import pytest


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_plugin_is_installed():
    datasette = Datasette(memory=True)
    response = await datasette.client.get(""/-/plugins.json"")
    assert response.status_code == 200 
             Creating a  Datasette()  instance like this as useful shortcut in tests, but there is one detail you need to be aware of. It's important to ensure that the async method  .invoke_startup()  is called on that instance. You can do that like this: 
             datasette = Datasette(memory=True)
await datasette.invoke_startup() 
             This method registers any  startup(datasette)  or  prepare_jinja2_environment(env, datasette)  plugins that might themselves need to make async calls. 
             If you are using  await datasette.client.get()  and similar methods then you don't need to worry about this - Datasette automatically calls  invoke_startup()  the first time it handles a request.","[""Testing plugins""]",[]
spatialite:spatialite-warning,spatialite,spatialite-warning,Warning,"The SpatiaLite extension adds  a large number of additional SQL functions , some of which are not be safe for untrusted users to execute: they may cause the Datasette server to crash. 
                 You should not expose a SpatiaLite-enabled Datasette instance to the public internet without taking extra measures to secure it against potentially harmful SQL queries. 
                 The following steps are recommended: 
                 
                     
                         Disable arbitrary SQL queries by untrusted users. See  Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL  for ways to do this. The easiest is to start Datasette with the  datasette --setting default_allow_sql off  option. 
                     
                     
                         Define  Canned queries  with the SQL queries that use SpatiaLite functions that you want people to be able to execute. 
                     
                 
                 The  Datasette SpatiaLite tutorial  includes detailed instructions for running SpatiaLite safely using these techniques","[""SpatiaLite""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-sql-5.0.1.html"", ""label"": ""a large number of additional SQL functions""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/spatialite"", ""label"": ""Datasette SpatiaLite tutorial""}]"
pages:pages,pages,pages,Pages and API endpoints,"The Datasette web application offers a number of different pages that can be accessed to explore the data in question, each of which is accompanied by an equivalent JSON API.",[],[]
json_api:id2,json_api,id2,Table arguments,The Datasette table view takes a number of special query string arguments.,"[""JSON API""]",[]
spatialite:querying-polygons-using-within,spatialite,querying-polygons-using-within,Querying polygons using within(),"The  within()  SQL function can be used to check if a point is within a geometry: 
             select
    name
from
    places
where
   within(GeomFromText('POINT(-3.1724366 51.4704448)'), places.geom); 
             The  GeomFromText()  function takes a string of well-known text. Note that the order used here is  longitude  then   latitude . 
             To run that same  within()  query in a way that benefits from the spatial index, use the following: 
             select
    name
from
    places
where
    within(GeomFromText('POINT(-3.1724366 51.4704448)'), places.geom)
    and rowid in (
        SELECT pkid FROM idx_places_geom
        where xmin < -3.1724366
        and xmax > -3.1724366
        and ymin < 51.4704448
        and ymax > 51.4704448
    );","[""SpatiaLite""]",[]
csv_export:streaming-all-records,csv_export,streaming-all-records,Streaming all records,"The  stream all rows  option is designed to be as efficient as possible -
                under the hood it takes advantage of Python 3 asyncio capabilities and
                Datasette's efficient  pagination  to stream back the full
                CSV file. 
             Since databases can get pretty large, by default this option is capped at 100MB -
                if a table returns more than 100MB of data the last line of the CSV will be a
                truncation error message. 
             You can increase or remove this limit using the  max_csv_mb  config
                setting. You can also disable the CSV export feature entirely using
                 allow_csv_stream .","[""CSV export""]",[]
spatialite:importing-shapefiles-into-spatialite,spatialite,importing-shapefiles-into-spatialite,Importing shapefiles into SpatiaLite,"The  shapefile format  is a common format for distributing geospatial data. You can use the  spatialite  command-line tool to create a new database table from a shapefile. 
             Try it now with the North America shapefile available from the University of North Carolina  Global River Database  project. Download the file and unzip it (this will create files called  narivs.dbf ,  narivs.prj ,  narivs.shp  and  narivs.shx  in the current directory), then run the following: 
             spatialite rivers-database.db 
             SpatiaLite version ..: 4.3.0a       Supported Extensions:
...
spatialite> .loadshp narivs rivers CP1252 23032
========
Loading shapefile at 'narivs' into SQLite table 'rivers'
...
Inserted 467973 rows into 'rivers' from SHAPEFILE 
             This will load the data from the  narivs  shapefile into a new database table called  rivers . 
             Exit out of  spatialite  (using  Ctrl+D ) and run Datasette against your new database like this: 
             datasette rivers-database.db \
    --load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib 
             If you browse to  http://localhost:8001/rivers-database/rivers  you will see the new table... but the  Geometry  column will contain unreadable binary data (SpatiaLite uses  a custom format based on WKB ). 
             The easiest way to turn this into semi-readable data is to use the SpatiaLite  AsGeoJSON  function. Try the following using the SQL query interface at  http://localhost:8001/rivers-database : 
             select *, AsGeoJSON(Geometry) from rivers limit 10; 
             This will give you back an additional column of GeoJSON. You can copy and paste GeoJSON from this column into the debugging tool at  geojson.io  to visualize it on a map. 
             To see a more interesting example, try ordering the records with the longest geometry first. Since there are 467,000 rows in the table you will first need to increase the SQL time limit imposed by Datasette: 
             datasette rivers-database.db \
    --load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib \
    --setting sql_time_limit_ms 10000 
             Now try the following query: 
             select *, AsGeoJSON(Geometry) from rivers
order by length(Geometry) desc limit 10;","[""SpatiaLite""]","[{""href"": ""https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile"", ""label"": ""shapefile format""}, {""href"": ""http://gaia.geosci.unc.edu/rivers/"", ""label"": ""Global River Database""}, {""href"": ""https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/BLOB-Geometry.html"", ""label"": ""a custom format based on WKB""}, {""href"": ""https://geojson.io/"", ""label"": ""geojson.io""}]"
changelog:plugin-hooks-and-internals,changelog,plugin-hooks-and-internals,Plugin hooks and internals,"The  prepare_jinja2_environment(env, datasette)  plugin hook now accepts an optional  datasette  argument. Hook implementations can also now return an  async  function which will be awaited automatically. ( #1809 ) 
                     
                     
                         Database(is_mutable=)  now defaults to  True . ( #1808 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  datasette.check_visibility()  method now accepts an optional  permissions=  list, allowing it to take multiple permissions into account at once when deciding if something should be shown as public or private. This has been used to correctly display padlock icons in more places in the Datasette interface. ( #1829 ) 
                     
                     
                         Datasette no longer enforces upper bounds on its dependencies. ( #1800 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.63 (2022-10-27)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1809"", ""label"": ""#1809""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1808"", ""label"": ""#1808""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1829"", ""label"": ""#1829""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1800"", ""label"": ""#1800""}]"
changelog:new-plugin-hook-extra-template-vars,changelog,new-plugin-hook-extra-template-vars,New plugin hook: extra_template_vars,"The  extra_template_vars(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)  plugin hook allows plugins to inject their own additional variables into the Datasette template context. This can be used in conjunction with custom templates to customize the Datasette interface.  datasette-auth-github  uses this hook to add custom HTML to the new top navigation bar (which is designed to be modified by plugins, see  #540 ).","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-github""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/540"", ""label"": ""#540""}]"
changelog:log-out,changelog,log-out,Log out,"The  ds_actor cookie  can be used by plugins (or by Datasette's  --root mechanism ) to authenticate users. The new  /-/logout  page provides a way to clear that cookie. 
                 A ""Log out"" button now shows in the global navigation provided the user is authenticated using the  ds_actor  cookie. ( #840 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.45 (2020-07-01)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/840"", ""label"": ""#840""}]"
internals:database-results,internals,database-results,Results,"The  db.execute()  method returns a single  Results  object. This can be used to access the rows returned by the query. 
                 Iterating over a  Results  object will yield SQLite  Row objects . Each of these can be treated as a tuple or can be accessed using  row[""column""]  syntax: 
                 info = []
results = await db.execute(""select name from sqlite_master"")
for row in results:
    info.append(row[""name""]) 
                 The  Results  object also has the following properties and methods: 
                 
                     
                         .truncated  - boolean 
                         
                             Indicates if this query was truncated - if it returned more results than the specified  page_size . If this is true then the results object will only provide access to the first  page_size  rows in the query result. You can disable truncation by passing  truncate=False  to the  db.query()  method. 
                         
                     
                     
                         .columns  - list of strings 
                         
                             A list of column names returned by the query. 
                         
                     
                     
                         .rows  - list of  sqlite3.Row 
                         
                             This property provides direct access to the list of rows returned by the database. You can access specific rows by index using  results.rows[0] . 
                         
                     
                     
                         .first()  - row or None 
                         
                             Returns the first row in the results, or  None  if no rows were returned. 
                         
                     
                     
                         .single_value() 
                         
                             Returns the value of the first column of the first row of results - but only if the query returned a single row with a single column. Raises a  datasette.database.MultipleValues  exception otherwise. 
                         
                     
                     
                         .__len__() 
                         
                             Calling  len(results)  returns the (truncated) number of returned results.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#row-objects"", ""label"": ""Row objects""}]"
installation:loading-spatialite,installation,loading-spatialite,Loading SpatiaLite,"The  datasetteproject/datasette  image includes a recent version of the
                         SpatiaLite extension  for SQLite. To load and enable that
                        module, use the following command: 
                     docker run -p 8001:8001 -v `pwd`:/mnt \
    datasetteproject/datasette \
    datasette -p 8001 -h 0.0.0.0 /mnt/fixtures.db \
    --load-extension=spatialite 
                     You can confirm that SpatiaLite is successfully loaded by visiting
                         http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/versions","[""Installation"", ""Advanced installation options"", ""Using Docker""]","[{""href"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/versions"", ""label"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/versions""}]"
javascript_plugins:javascript-datasette-manager,javascript_plugins,javascript-datasette-manager,datasetteManager,"The  datasetteManager  object 
             
                 
                     VERSION  - string 
                     
                         The version of Datasette 
                     
                 
                 
                     plugins  -  Map() 
                     
                         A Map of currently loaded plugin names to plugin implementations 
                     
                 
                 
                     registerPlugin(name, implementation) 
                     
                         Call this to register a plugin, passing its name and implementation 
                     
                 
                 
                     selectors  - object 
                     
                         An object providing named aliases to useful CSS selectors,  listed below","[""JavaScript plugins""]",[]
internals:internals-utils,internals,internals-utils,The datasette.utils module,"The  datasette.utils  module contains various utility functions used by Datasette. As a general rule you should consider anything in this module to be unstable - functions and classes here could change without warning or be removed entirely between Datasette releases, without being mentioned in the release notes. 
             The exception to this rule is anything that is documented here. If you find a need for an undocumented utility function in your own work, consider  opening an issue  requesting that the function you are using be upgraded to documented and supported status.","[""Internals for plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/new"", ""label"": ""opening an issue""}]"
internals:internals-datasette-urls,internals,internals-datasette-urls,datasette.urls,"The  datasette.urls  object contains methods for building URLs to pages within Datasette. Plugins should use this to link to pages, since these methods take into account any  base_url  configuration setting that might be in effect. 
                 
                     
                         datasette.urls.instance(format=None) 
                         
                             Returns the URL to the Datasette instance root page. This is usually  ""/"" . 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.path(path, format=None) 
                         
                             Takes a path and returns the full path, taking  base_url  into account. 
                             For example,  datasette.urls.path(""-/logout"")  will return the path to the logout page, which will be  ""/-/logout""  by default or  /prefix-path/-/logout  if  base_url  is set to  /prefix-path/ 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.logout() 
                         
                             Returns the URL to the logout page, usually  ""/-/logout"" 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.static(path) 
                         
                             Returns the URL of one of Datasette's default static assets, for example  ""/-/static/app.css"" 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.static_plugins(plugin_name, path) 
                         
                             Returns the URL of one of the static assets belonging to a plugin. 
                             datasette.urls.static_plugins(""datasette_cluster_map"", ""datasette-cluster-map.js"")  would return  ""/-/static-plugins/datasette_cluster_map/datasette-cluster-map.js"" 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.static(path) 
                         
                             Returns the URL of one of Datasette's default static assets, for example  ""/-/static/app.css"" 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.database(database_name, format=None) 
                         
                             Returns the URL to a database page, for example  ""/fixtures"" 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.table(database_name, table_name, format=None) 
                         
                             Returns the URL to a table page, for example  ""/fixtures/facetable"" 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette.urls.query(database_name, query_name, format=None) 
                         
                             Returns the URL to a query page, for example  ""/fixtures/pragma_cache_size"" 
                         
                     
                 
                 These functions can be accessed via the  {{ urls }}  object in Datasette templates, for example: 
                 <a href=""{{ urls.instance() }}"">Homepage</a>
<a href=""{{ urls.database(""fixtures"") }}"">Fixtures database</a>
<a href=""{{ urls.table(""fixtures"", ""facetable"") }}"">facetable table</a>
<a href=""{{ urls.query(""fixtures"", ""pragma_cache_size"") }}"">pragma_cache_size query</a> 
                 Use the  format=""json""  (or  ""csv""  or other formats supported by plugins) arguments to get back URLs to the JSON representation. This is the path with  .json  added on the end. 
                 These methods each return a  datasette.utils.PrefixedUrlString  object, which is a subclass of the Python  str  type. This allows the logic that considers the  base_url  setting to detect if that prefix has already been applied to the path.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Datasette class""]",[]
authentication:authentication-permissions-explained,authentication,authentication-permissions-explained,How permissions are resolved,"The  datasette.permission_allowed(actor, action, resource=None, default=...)  method is called to check if an actor is allowed to perform a specific action. 
                 This method asks every plugin that implements the  permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource)  hook if the actor is allowed to perform the action. 
                 Each plugin can return  True  to indicate that the actor is allowed to perform the action,  False  if they are not allowed and  None  if the plugin has no opinion on the matter. 
                 False  acts as a veto - if any plugin returns  False  then the permission check is denied. Otherwise, if any plugin returns  True  then the permission check is allowed. 
                 The  resource  argument can be used to specify a specific resource that the action is being performed against. Some permissions, such as  view-instance , do not involve a resource. Others such as  view-database  have a resource that is a string naming the database. Permissions that take both a database name and the name of a table, view or canned query within that database use a resource that is a tuple of two strings,  (database_name, resource_name) . 
                 Plugins that implement the  permission_allowed()  hook can decide if they are going to consider the provided resource or not.","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Permissions""]",[]
changelog:permission-checks-now-consider-opinions-from-every-plugin,changelog,permission-checks-now-consider-opinions-from-every-plugin,Permission checks now consider opinions from every plugin,"The  datasette.permission_allowed()  method previously consulted every plugin that implemented the  permission_allowed()  plugin hook and obeyed the opinion of the last plugin to return a value. ( #2275 ) 
                 Datasette now consults every plugin and checks to see if any of them returned  False  (the veto rule), and if none of them did, it then checks to see if any of them returned  True . 
                 This is explained at length in the new documentation covering  How permissions are resolved .","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a9 (2024-02-16)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2275"", ""label"": ""#2275""}]"
testing_plugins:testing-datasette-client,testing_plugins,testing-datasette-client,Using datasette.client in tests,"The  datasette.client  mechanism is designed for use in tests. It provides access to a pre-configured  HTTPX async client  instance that can make GET, POST and other HTTP requests against a Datasette instance from inside a test. 
             A simple test looks like this: 
             @pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_homepage():
    ds = Datasette(memory=True)
    response = await ds.client.get(""/"")
    html = response.text
    assert ""<h1>"" in html
 
             Or for a JSON API: 
             @pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_actor_is_null():
    ds = Datasette(memory=True)
    response = await ds.client.get(""/-/actor.json"")
    assert response.json() == {""actor"": None}
 
             To make requests as an authenticated actor, create a signed  ds_cookie  using the  datasette.client.actor_cookie()  helper function and pass it in  cookies=  like this: 
             @pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_signed_cookie_actor():
    ds = Datasette(memory=True)
    cookies = {""ds_actor"": ds.client.actor_cookie({""id"": ""root""})}
    response = await ds.client.get(""/-/actor.json"", cookies=cookies)
    assert response.json() == {""actor"": {""id"": ""root""}}","[""Testing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.python-httpx.org/async/"", ""label"": ""HTTPX async client""}]"
custom_templates:publishing-static-assets,custom_templates,publishing-static-assets,Publishing static assets,"The  datasette publish  command can be used to publish your static assets,
                using the same syntax as above: 
             datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --static assets:static-files/ 
             This will upload the contents of the  static-files/  directory as part of the
                deployment, and configure Datasette to correctly serve the assets from  /assets/ .","[""Custom pages and templates""]",[]
plugins:deploying-plugins-using-datasette-publish,plugins,deploying-plugins-using-datasette-publish,Deploying plugins using datasette publish,"The  datasette publish  and  datasette package  commands both take an optional  --install  argument. You can use this one or more times to tell Datasette to  pip install  specific plugins as part of the process: 
                 datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --install=datasette-vega 
                 You can use the name of a package on PyPI or any of the other valid arguments to  pip install  such as a URL to a  .zip  file: 
                 datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db \
    --install=https://url-to-my-package.zip","[""Plugins"", ""Installing plugins""]",[]
settings:setting-publish-secrets,settings,setting-publish-secrets,Using secrets with datasette publish,"The  datasette publish  and  datasette package  commands both generate a secret for you automatically when Datasette is deployed. 
             This means that every time you deploy a new version of a Datasette project, a new secret will be generated. This will cause signed cookies to become invalid on every fresh deploy. 
             You can fix this by creating a secret that will be used for multiple deploys and passing it using the  --secret  option: 
             datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --service=my-service --secret=cdb19e94283a20f9d42cca5","[""Settings""]",[]
changelog:id53,changelog,id53,0.47.3 (2020-08-15),The  datasette --get  command-line mechanism now ensures any plugins using the  startup()  hook are correctly executed. ( #934 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/934"", ""label"": ""#934""}]"
changelog:id70,changelog,id70,0.36 (2020-02-21),"The  datasette  object passed to plugins now has API documentation:  Datasette class . ( #576 ) 
                 
                 
                     New methods on  datasette :  .add_database()  and  .remove_database()  -  documentation . ( #671 ) 
                 
                 
                     prepare_connection()  plugin hook now takes optional  datasette  and  database  arguments -  prepare_connection(conn, database, datasette) . ( #678 ) 
                 
                 
                     Added three new plugins and one new conversion tool to the  The Datasette Ecosystem .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/576"", ""label"": ""#576""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/671"", ""label"": ""#671""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/678"", ""label"": ""#678""}]"
cli-reference:id1,cli-reference,id1,CLI reference,"The  datasette  CLI tool provides a number of commands. 
         Running  datasette  without specifying a command runs the default command,  datasette serve .  See  datasette serve  for the full list of options for that command. 
         [[[cog
from datasette import cli
from click.testing import CliRunner
import textwrap
def help(args):
    title = ""datasette "" + "" "".join(args)
    cog.out(""\n::\n\n"")
    result = CliRunner().invoke(cli.cli, args)
    output = result.output.replace(""Usage: cli "", ""Usage: datasette "")
    cog.out(textwrap.indent(output, '    '))
    cog.out(""\n\n"") 
         ]]] 
         [[[end]]]",[],[]
contributing:contributing-formatting-blacken-docs,contributing,contributing-formatting-blacken-docs,blacken-docs,"The  blacken-docs  command applies Black formatting rules to code examples in the documentation. Run it like this: 
                 blacken-docs -l 60 docs/*.rst","[""Contributing"", ""Code formatting""]","[{""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/blacken-docs/"", ""label"": ""blacken-docs""}]"
changelog:running-datasette-behind-a-proxy,changelog,running-datasette-behind-a-proxy,Running Datasette behind a proxy,"The  base_url  configuration option is designed to help run Datasette on a specific path behind a proxy - for example if you want to run an instance of Datasette at  /my-datasette/  within your existing site's URL hierarchy, proxied behind nginx or Apache. 
                 Support for this configuration option has been greatly improved ( #1023 ), and guidelines for using it are now available in a new documentation section on  Running Datasette behind a proxy . ( #1027 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.51 (2020-10-31)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1023"", ""label"": ""#1023""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1027"", ""label"": ""#1027""}]"
changelog:new-plugin-hook-asgi-wrapper,changelog,new-plugin-hook-asgi-wrapper,New plugin hook: asgi_wrapper,"The  asgi_wrapper(datasette)  plugin hook allows plugins to entirely wrap the Datasette ASGI application in their own ASGI middleware. ( #520 ) 
                 Two new plugins take advantage of this hook: 
                 
                     
                         datasette-auth-github  adds a authentication layer: users will have to sign in using their GitHub account before they can view data or interact with Datasette. You can also use it to restrict access to specific GitHub users, or to members of specified GitHub  organizations  or  teams . 
                     
                     
                         datasette-cors  allows you to configure  CORS headers  for your Datasette instance. You can use this to enable JavaScript running on a whitelisted set of domains to make  fetch()  calls to the JSON API provided by your Datasette instance.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/520"", ""label"": ""#520""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-github""}, {""href"": ""https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-organizations"", ""label"": ""organizations""}, {""href"": ""https://help.github.com/en/articles/organizing-members-into-teams"", ""label"": ""teams""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cors"", ""label"": ""datasette-cors""}, {""href"": ""https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS"", ""label"": ""CORS headers""}]"
json_api:json-api-shapes,json_api,json-api-shapes,Different shapes,"The  _shape  parameter can be used to access alternative formats for the
                 rows  key which may be more convenient for your application. There are three
                options: 
             
                 
                     ?_shape=objects  -  ""rows""  is a list of JSON key/value objects - the default 
                 
                 
                     ?_shape=arrays  -  ""rows""  is a list of lists, where the order of values in each list matches the order of the columns 
                 
                 
                     ?_shape=array  - a JSON array of objects - effectively just the  ""rows""  key from the default representation 
                 
                 
                     ?_shape=array&_nl=on  - a newline-separated list of JSON objects 
                 
                 
                     ?_shape=arrayfirst  - a flat JSON array containing just the first value from each row 
                 
                 
                     ?_shape=object  - a JSON object keyed using the primary keys of the rows 
                 
             
             _shape=arrays  looks like this: 
             {
  ""ok"": true,
  ""next"": null,
  ""rows"": [
    [3, ""Detroit""],
    [2, ""Los Angeles""],
    [4, ""Memnonia""],
    [1, ""San Francisco""]
  ]
} 
             _shape=array  looks like this: 
             [
  {
    ""id"": 3,
    ""name"": ""Detroit""
  },
  {
    ""id"": 2,
    ""name"": ""Los Angeles""
  },
  {
    ""id"": 4,
    ""name"": ""Memnonia""
  },
  {
    ""id"": 1,
    ""name"": ""San Francisco""
  }
] 
             _shape=array&_nl=on  looks like this: 
             {""id"": 1, ""value"": ""Myoporum laetum :: Myoporum""}
{""id"": 2, ""value"": ""Metrosideros excelsa :: New Zealand Xmas Tree""}
{""id"": 3, ""value"": ""Pinus radiata :: Monterey Pine""} 
             _shape=arrayfirst  looks like this: 
             [1, 2, 3] 
             _shape=object  looks like this: 
             {
  ""1"": {
    ""id"": 1,
    ""value"": ""Myoporum laetum :: Myoporum""
  },
  ""2"": {
    ""id"": 2,
    ""value"": ""Metrosideros excelsa :: New Zealand Xmas Tree""
  },
  ""3"": {
    ""id"": 3,
    ""value"": ""Pinus radiata :: Monterey Pine""
  }
] 
             The  object  shape is only available for queries against tables - custom SQL
                queries and views do not have an obvious primary key so cannot be returned using
                this format. 
             The  object  keys are always strings. If your table has a compound primary
                key, the  object  keys will be a comma-separated string.","[""JSON API""]",[]
spatialite:id1,spatialite,id1,SpatiaLite,"The  SpatiaLite module  for SQLite adds features for handling geographic and spatial data. For an example of what you can do with it, see the tutorial  Building a location to time zone API with SpatiaLite . 
         To use it with Datasette, you need to install the  mod_spatialite  dynamic library. This can then be loaded into Datasette using the  --load-extension  command-line option. 
         Datasette can look for SpatiaLite in common installation locations if you run it like this: 
         datasette --load-extension=spatialite --setting default_allow_sql off 
         If SpatiaLite is in another location, use the full path to the extension instead: 
         datasette --setting default_allow_sql off \
  --load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib",[],"[{""href"": ""https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index"", ""label"": ""SpatiaLite module""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/spatialite"", ""label"": ""Building a location to time zone API with SpatiaLite""}]"
changelog:improved-support-for-spatialite,changelog,improved-support-for-spatialite,Improved support for SpatiaLite,"The  SpatiaLite module 
                    for SQLite adds robust geospatial features to the database. 
                 Getting SpatiaLite working can be tricky, especially if you want to use the most
                    recent alpha version (with support for K-nearest neighbor). 
                 Datasette now includes  extensive documentation on SpatiaLite , and thanks to  Ravi Kotecha  our GitHub
                    repo includes a  Dockerfile  that can build
                    the latest SpatiaLite and configure it for use with Datasette. 
                 The  datasette publish  and  datasette package  commands now accept a new
                     --spatialite  argument which causes them to install and configure SpatiaLite
                    as part of the container they deploy.","[""Changelog"", ""0.23 (2018-06-18)""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index"", ""label"": ""SpatiaLite module""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/r4vi"", ""label"": ""Ravi Kotecha""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/master/Dockerfile"", ""label"": ""Dockerfile""}]"
internals:internals-response,internals,internals-response,Response class,"The  Response  class can be returned from view functions that have been registered using the  register_routes(datasette)  hook. 
             The  Response()  constructor takes the following arguments: 
             
                 
                     body  - string 
                     
                         The body of the response. 
                     
                 
                 
                     status  - integer (optional) 
                     
                         The HTTP status - defaults to 200. 
                     
                 
                 
                     headers  - dictionary (optional) 
                     
                         A dictionary of extra HTTP headers, e.g.  {""x-hello"": ""world""} . 
                     
                 
                 
                     content_type  - string (optional) 
                     
                         The content-type for the response. Defaults to  text/plain . 
                     
                 
             
             For example: 
             from datasette.utils.asgi import Response

response = Response(
    ""<xml>This is XML</xml>"",
    content_type=""application/xml; charset=utf-8"",
) 
             The quickest way to create responses is using the  Response.text(...) ,  Response.html(...) ,  Response.json(...)  or  Response.redirect(...)  helper methods: 
             from datasette.utils.asgi import Response

html_response = Response.html(""This is HTML"")
json_response = Response.json({""this_is"": ""json""})
text_response = Response.text(
    ""This will become utf-8 encoded text""
)
# Redirects are served as 302, unless you pass status=301:
redirect_response = Response.redirect(
    ""https://latest.datasette.io/""
) 
             Each of these responses will use the correct corresponding content-type -  text/html; charset=utf-8 ,  application/json; charset=utf-8  or  text/plain; charset=utf-8  respectively. 
             Each of the helper methods take optional  status=  and  headers=  arguments, documented above.","[""Internals for plugins""]",[]
changelog:alter-table-support-for-create-insert-upsert-and-update,changelog,alter-table-support-for-create-insert-upsert-and-update,"Alter table support for create, insert, upsert and update","The  JSON write API  can now be used to apply simple alter table schema changes, provided the acting actor has the new  alter-table  permission. ( #2101 ) 
                 The only alter operation supported so far is adding new columns to an existing table. 
                 
                     
                         The  /db/-/create  API now adds new columns during large operations to create a table based on incoming example  ""rows"" , in the case where one of the later rows includes columns that were not present in the earlier batches. This requires the  create-table  but not the  alter-table  permission. 
                     
                     
                         When  /db/-/create  is called with rows in a situation where the table may have been already created, an  ""alter"": true  key can be included to indicate that any missing columns from the new rows should be added to the table. This requires the  alter-table  permission. 
                     
                     
                         /db/table/-/insert  and  /db/table/-/upsert  and  /db/table/row-pks/-/update  all now also accept  ""alter"": true , depending on the  alter-table  permission. 
                     
                 
                 Operations that alter a table now fire the new  alter-table event .","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a9 (2024-02-16)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2101"", ""label"": ""#2101""}]"
changelog:id67,changelog,id67,0.38 (2020-03-08),"The  Docker build  of Datasette now uses SQLite 3.31.1, upgraded from 3.26. ( #695 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette publish cloudrun  now accepts an optional  --memory=2Gi  flag for setting the Cloud Run allocated memory to a value other than the default (256Mi). ( #694 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where templates that shipped with plugins were sometimes not being correctly loaded. ( #697 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": ""Docker build""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/695"", ""label"": ""#695""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/694"", ""label"": ""#694""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/697"", ""label"": ""#697""}]"
internals:database-constructor,internals,database-constructor,"Database(ds, path=None, is_mutable=True, is_memory=False, memory_name=None)","The  Database()  constructor can be used by plugins, in conjunction with  .add_database(db, name=None, route=None) , to create and register new databases. 
                 The arguments are as follows: 
                 
                     
                         ds  -  Datasette class  (required) 
                         
                             The Datasette instance you are attaching this database to. 
                         
                     
                     
                         path  - string 
                         
                             Path to a SQLite database file on disk. 
                         
                     
                     
                         is_mutable  - boolean 
                         
                             Set this to  False  to cause Datasette to open the file in immutable mode. 
                         
                     
                     
                         is_memory  - boolean 
                         
                             Use this to create non-shared memory connections. 
                         
                     
                     
                         memory_name  - string or  None 
                         
                             Use this to create a named in-memory database. Unlike regular memory databases these can be accessed by multiple threads and will persist an changes made to them for the lifetime of the Datasette server process. 
                         
                     
                 
                 The first argument is the  datasette  instance you are attaching to, the second is a  path= , then  is_mutable  and  is_memory  are both optional arguments.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
internals:internals-database-introspection,internals,internals-database-introspection,Database introspection,"The  Database  class also provides properties and methods for introspecting the database. 
                 
                     
                         db.name  - string 
                         
                             The name of the database - usually the filename without the  .db  prefix. 
                         
                     
                     
                         db.size  - integer 
                         
                             The size of the database file in bytes. 0 for  :memory:  databases. 
                         
                     
                     
                         db.mtime_ns  - integer or None 
                         
                             The last modification time of the database file in nanoseconds since the epoch.  None  for  :memory:  databases. 
                         
                     
                     
                         db.is_mutable  - boolean 
                         
                             Is this database mutable, and allowed to accept writes? 
                         
                     
                     
                         db.is_memory  - boolean 
                         
                             Is this database an in-memory database? 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.attached_databases()  - list of named tuples 
                         
                             Returns a list of additional databases that have been connected to this database using the SQLite ATTACH command. Each named tuple has fields  seq ,  name  and  file . 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.table_exists(table)  - boolean 
                         
                             Check if a table called  table  exists. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.view_exists(view)  - boolean 
                         
                             Check if a view called  view  exists. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.table_names()  - list of strings 
                         
                             List of names of tables in the database. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.view_names()  - list of strings 
                         
                             List of names of views in the database. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.table_columns(table)  - list of strings 
                         
                             Names of columns in a specific table. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.table_column_details(table)  - list of named tuples 
                         
                             Full details of the columns in a specific table. Each column is represented by a  Column  named tuple with fields  cid  (integer representing the column position),  name  (string),  type  (string, e.g.  REAL  or  VARCHAR(30) ),  notnull  (integer 1 or 0),  default_value  (string or None),  is_pk  (integer 1 or 0). 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.primary_keys(table)  - list of strings 
                         
                             Names of the columns that are part of the primary key for this table. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.fts_table(table)  - string or None 
                         
                             The name of the FTS table associated with this table, if one exists. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.label_column_for_table(table)  - string or None 
                         
                             The label column that is associated with this table - either automatically detected or using the  ""label_column""  key from  Metadata , see  Specifying the label column for a table . 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.foreign_keys_for_table(table)  - list of dictionaries 
                         
                             Details of columns in this table which are foreign keys to other tables. A list of dictionaries where each dictionary is shaped like this:  {""column"": string, ""other_table"": string, ""other_column"": string} . 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.hidden_table_names()  - list of strings 
                         
                             List of tables which Datasette ""hides"" by default - usually these are tables associated with SQLite's full-text search feature, the SpatiaLite extension or tables hidden using the  Hiding tables  feature. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.get_table_definition(table)  - string 
                         
                             Returns the SQL definition for the table - the  CREATE TABLE  statement and any associated  CREATE INDEX  statements. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.get_view_definition(view)  - string 
                         
                             Returns the SQL definition of the named view. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await db.get_all_foreign_keys()  - dictionary 
                         
                             Dictionary representing both incoming and outgoing foreign keys for this table. It has two keys,  ""incoming""  and  ""outgoing"" , each of which is a list of dictionaries with keys  ""column"" ,  ""other_table""  and  ""other_column"" . For example: 
                             {
    ""incoming"": [],
    ""outgoing"": [
        {
            ""other_table"": ""attraction_characteristic"",
            ""column"": ""characteristic_id"",
            ""other_column"": ""pk"",
        },
        {
            ""other_table"": ""roadside_attractions"",
            ""column"": ""attraction_id"",
            ""other_column"": ""pk"",
        }
    ]
}","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-tracing,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-tracing,Tracing plugin hooks,"The  DATASETTE_TRACE_PLUGINS  environment variable turns on detailed tracing showing exactly which hooks are being run. This can be useful for understanding how Datasette is using your plugin. 
             DATASETTE_TRACE_PLUGINS=1 datasette mydb.db 
             Example output: 
             actor_from_request:
{   'datasette': <datasette.app.Datasette object at 0x100bc7220>,
    'request': <asgi.Request method=""GET"" url=""http://127.0.0.1:4433/"">}
Hook implementations:
[   <HookImpl plugin_name='codespaces', plugin=<module 'datasette_codespaces' from '.../site-packages/datasette_codespaces/__init__.py'>>,
    <HookImpl plugin_name='datasette.actor_auth_cookie', plugin=<module 'datasette.actor_auth_cookie' from '.../datasette/datasette/actor_auth_cookie.py'>>,
    <HookImpl plugin_name='datasette.default_permissions', plugin=<module 'datasette.default_permissions' from '.../datasette/default_permissions.py'>>]
Results:
[{'id': 'root'}]","[""Writing plugins""]",[]
changelog:permissions-fix-for-the-upsert-api,changelog,permissions-fix-for-the-upsert-api,Permissions fix for the upsert API,"The  /database/table/-/upsert API  had a minor permissions bug, only affecting Datasette instances that had configured the  insert-row  and  update-row  permissions to apply to a specific table rather than the database or instance as a whole. Full details in issue  #2262 . 
                 To avoid similar mistakes in the future the  datasette.permission_allowed()  method now specifies  default=  as a keyword-only argument.","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a9 (2024-02-16)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2262"", ""label"": ""#2262""}]"
authentication:allowdebugview,authentication,allowdebugview,The /-/allow-debug tool,"The  /-/allow-debug  tool lets you try out different   ""action""  blocks against different  ""actor""  JSON objects. You can try that out here:  https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/allow-debug""}]"
binary_data:binary-linking,binary_data,binary-linking,Linking to binary downloads,"The  .blob  output format is used to return binary data. It requires a  _blob_column=  query string argument specifying which BLOB column should be downloaded, for example: 
             https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data/1.blob?_blob_column=data 
             This output format can also be used to return binary data from an arbitrary SQL query. Since such queries do not specify an exact row, an additional  ?_blob_hash=  parameter can be used to specify the SHA-256 hash of the value that is being linked to. 
             Consider the query  select data from binary_data  -  demonstrated here . 
             That page links to the binary value downloads. Those links look like this: 
             https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.blob?sql=select+data+from+binary_data&_blob_column=data&_blob_hash=f3088978da8f9aea479ffc7f631370b968d2e855eeb172bea7f6c7a04262bb6d 
             These  .blob  links are also returned in the  .csv  exports Datasette provides for binary tables and queries, since the CSV format does not have a mechanism for representing binary data.","[""Binary data""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data/1.blob?_blob_column=data"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data/1.blob?_blob_column=data""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+data+from+binary_data"", ""label"": ""demonstrated here""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.blob?sql=select+data+from+binary_data&_blob_column=data&_blob_hash=f3088978da8f9aea479ffc7f631370b968d2e855eeb172bea7f6c7a04262bb6d"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.blob?sql=select+data+from+binary_data&_blob_column=data&_blob_hash=f3088978da8f9aea479ffc7f631370b968d2e855eeb172bea7f6c7a04262bb6d""}]"
cli-reference:cli-datasette-get,cli-reference,cli-datasette-get,datasette --get,"The  --get  option to  datasette serve  (or just  datasette ) specifies the path to a page within Datasette and causes Datasette to output the content from that path without starting the web server. 
                 This means that all of Datasette's functionality can be accessed directly from the command-line. 
                 For example: 
                 datasette --get '/-/versions.json' | jq . 
                 {
  ""python"": {
    ""version"": ""3.8.5"",
    ""full"": ""3.8.5 (default, Jul 21 2020, 10:48:26) \n[Clang 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)]""
  },
  ""datasette"": {
    ""version"": ""0.46+15.g222a84a.dirty""
  },
  ""asgi"": ""3.0"",
  ""uvicorn"": ""0.11.8"",
  ""sqlite"": {
    ""version"": ""3.32.3"",
    ""fts_versions"": [
      ""FTS5"",
      ""FTS4"",
      ""FTS3""
    ],
    ""extensions"": {
      ""json1"": null
    },
    ""compile_options"": [
      ""COMPILER=clang-11.0.3"",
      ""ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA"",
      ""ENABLE_FTS3"",
      ""ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS"",
      ""ENABLE_FTS4"",
      ""ENABLE_FTS5"",
      ""ENABLE_GEOPOLY"",
      ""ENABLE_JSON1"",
      ""ENABLE_PREUPDATE_HOOK"",
      ""ENABLE_RTREE"",
      ""ENABLE_SESSION"",
      ""MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER=250000"",
      ""THREADSAFE=1""
    ]
  }
} 
                 You can use the  --token TOKEN  option to send an  API token  with the simulated request. 
                 Or you can make a request as a specific actor by passing a JSON representation of that actor to  --actor : 
                 datasette --memory --actor '{""id"": ""root""}' --get '/-/actor.json' 
                 The exit code of  datasette --get  will be 0 if the request succeeds and 1 if the request produced an HTTP status code other than 200 - e.g. a 404 or 500 error. 
                 This lets you use  datasette --get /  to run tests against a Datasette application in a continuous integration environment such as GitHub Actions.","[""CLI reference"", ""datasette serve""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a11,changelog,v1-0-a11,1.0a11 (2024-02-19),"The  ""replace"": true  argument to the  /db/table/-/insert  API now requires the actor to have the  update-row  permission. ( #2279 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed some UI bugs in the interactive permissions debugging tool. ( #2278 ) 
                 
                 
                     The column action menu now aligns better with the cog icon, and positions itself taking into account the width of the browser window. ( #2263 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2279"", ""label"": ""#2279""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2278"", ""label"": ""#2278""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2263"", ""label"": ""#2263""}]"
full_text_search:full-text-search-table-view-api,full_text_search,full-text-search-table-view-api,The table page and table view API,"Table views that support full-text search can be queried using the  ?_search=TERMS  query string parameter. This will run the search against content from all of the columns that have been included in the index. 
             Try this example:  fara.datasettes.com/fara/FARA_All_ShortForms?_search=manafort 
             SQLite full-text search supports wildcards. This means you can easily implement prefix auto-complete by including an asterisk at the end of the search term - for example: 
             /dbname/tablename/?_search=rob* 
             This will return all records containing at least one word that starts with the letters  rob . 
             You can also run searches against just the content of a specific named column by using  _search_COLNAME=TERMS  - for example, this would search for just rows where the  name  column in the FTS index mentions  Sarah : 
             /dbname/tablename/?_search_name=Sarah","[""Full-text search""]","[{""href"": ""https://fara.datasettes.com/fara/FARA_All_ShortForms?_search=manafort"", ""label"": ""fara.datasettes.com/fara/FARA_All_ShortForms?_search=manafort""}]"
changelog:id33,changelog,id33,0.55 (2021-02-18),"Support for cross-database SQL queries and built-in support for serving via HTTPS. 
             
                 
                     The new  --crossdb  command-line option causes Datasette to attach up to ten database files to the same  /_memory  database connection. This enables cross-database SQL queries, including the ability to use joins and unions to combine data from tables that exist in different database files. See  Cross-database queries  for details. ( #283 ) 
                 
                 
                     --ssl-keyfile  and  --ssl-certfile  options can be used to specify a TLS certificate, allowing Datasette to serve traffic over  https://  without needing to run it behind a separate proxy. ( #1221 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  /:memory:  page has been renamed (and redirected) to  /_memory  for consistency with the new  /_internal  database introduced in Datasette 0.54. ( #1205 ) 
                 
                 
                     Added plugin testing documentation on  Using pdb for errors thrown inside Datasette . ( #1207 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  official Datasette Docker image  now uses Python 3.7.10, applying  the latest security fix  for that Python version. ( #1235 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/283"", ""label"": ""#283""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1221"", ""label"": ""#1221""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1205"", ""label"": ""#1205""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1207"", ""label"": ""#1207""}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": ""official Datasette Docker image""}, {""href"": ""https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3710/"", ""label"": ""the latest security fix""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1235"", ""label"": ""#1235""}]"
spatialite:making-use-of-a-spatial-index,spatialite,making-use-of-a-spatial-index,Making use of a spatial index,"SpatiaLite spatial indexes are R*Trees. They allow you to run efficient bounding box queries using a sub-select, with a similar pattern to that used for  Searches using custom SQL . 
             In the above example, the resulting index will be called  idx_museums_point_geom . This takes the form of a SQLite virtual table. You can inspect its contents using the following query: 
             select * from idx_museums_point_geom limit 10; 
             Here's a live example:  timezones-api.datasette.io/timezones/idx_timezones_Geometry 
             
                 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                         
                             
                                 pkid 
                             
                             
                                 xmin 
                             
                             
                                 xmax 
                             
                             
                                 ymin 
                             
                             
                                 ymax 
                             
                         
                     
                     
                         
                             
                                 1 
                             
                             
                                 -8.601725578308105 
                             
                             
                                 -2.4930307865142822 
                             
                             
                                 4.162120819091797 
                             
                             
                                 10.74019718170166 
                             
                         
                         
                             
                                 2 
                             
                             
                                 -3.2607860565185547 
                             
                             
                                 1.27329421043396 
                             
                             
                                 4.539252281188965 
                             
                             
                                 11.174856185913086 
                             
                         
                         
                             
                                 3 
                             
                             
                                 32.997581481933594 
                             
                             
                                 47.98238754272461 
                             
                             
                                 3.3974475860595703 
                             
                             
                                 14.894054412841797 
                             
                         
                         
                             
                                 4 
                             
                             
                                 -8.66890811920166 
                             
                             
                                 11.997337341308594 
                             
                             
                                 18.9681453704834 
                             
                             
                                 37.296207427978516 
                             
                         
                         
                             
                                 5 
                             
                             
                                 36.43336486816406 
                             
                             
                                 43.300174713134766 
                             
                             
                                 12.354820251464844 
                             
                             
                                 18.070993423461914 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
             You can now construct efficient bounding box queries that will make use of the index like this: 
             select * from museums where museums.rowid in (
    SELECT pkid FROM idx_museums_point_geom
    -- left-hand-edge of point > left-hand-edge of bbox (minx)
    where xmin > :bbox_minx
    -- right-hand-edge of point < right-hand-edge of bbox (maxx)
    and xmax < :bbox_maxx
    -- bottom-edge of point > bottom-edge of bbox (miny)
    and ymin > :bbox_miny
    -- top-edge of point < top-edge of bbox (maxy)
    and ymax < :bbox_maxy
); 
             Spatial indexes can be created against polygon columns as well as point columns, in which case they will represent the minimum bounding rectangle of that polygon. This is useful for accelerating  within  queries, as seen in the Timezones API example.","[""SpatiaLite""]","[{""href"": ""https://timezones-api.datasette.io/timezones/idx_timezones_Geometry"", ""label"": ""timezones-api.datasette.io/timezones/idx_timezones_Geometry""}]"
spatialite:installing-spatialite-on-linux,spatialite,installing-spatialite-on-linux,Installing SpatiaLite on Linux,"SpatiaLite is packaged for most Linux distributions. 
                 apt install spatialite-bin libsqlite3-mod-spatialite 
                 Depending on your distribution, you should be able to run Datasette something like this: 
                 datasette --load-extension=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mod_spatialite.so 
                 If you are unsure of the location of the module, try running  locate mod_spatialite  and see what comes back.","[""SpatiaLite"", ""Installation""]",[]
pages:databaseview-hidden,pages,databaseview-hidden,Hidden tables,"Some tables listed on the database page are treated as hidden. Hidden tables are not completely invisible - they can be accessed through the ""hidden tables"" link at the bottom of the page. They are hidden because they represent low-level implementation details which are generally not useful to end-users of Datasette. 
                 The following tables are hidden by default: 
                 
                     
                         Any table with a name that starts with an underscore - this is a Datasette convention to help plugins easily hide their own internal tables. 
                     
                     
                         Tables that have been configured as  ""hidden"": true  using  Hiding tables . 
                     
                     
                         *_fts  tables that implement SQLite full-text search indexes. 
                     
                     
                         Tables relating to the inner workings of the SpatiaLite SQLite extension. 
                     
                     
                         sqlite_stat  tables used to store statistics used by the query optimizer.","[""Pages and API endpoints"", ""Database""]",[]
sql_queries:fragment,sql_queries,fragment,fragment,"Some plugins, such as  datasette-vega , can be configured by including additional data in the fragment hash of the URL - the bit that comes after a  #  symbol. 
                     You can set a default fragment hash that will be included in the link to the canned query from the database index page using the  ""fragment""  key. 
                     This example demonstrates both  fragment  and  hide_sql : 
                     [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
databases:
  fixtures:
    queries:
      neighborhood_search:
        fragment: fragment-goes-here
        hide_sql: true
        sql: |-
          select neighborhood, facet_cities.name, state
          from facetable join facet_cities on facetable.city_id = facet_cities.id
          where neighborhood like '%' || :text || '%' order by neighborhood;
"""""") 
                     ]]] 
                     [[[end]]] 
                     See here  for a demo of this in action.","[""Running SQL queries"", ""Canned queries"", ""Additional canned query options""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-vega"", ""label"": ""datasette-vega""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures#queries"", ""label"": ""See here""}]"
plugins:plugins-configuration-secret,plugins,plugins-configuration-secret,Secret configuration values,"Some plugins may need configuration that should stay secret - API keys for example. There are two ways in which you can store secret configuration values. 
                 As environment variables . If your secret lives in an environment variable that is available to the Datasette process, you can indicate that the configuration value should be read from that environment variable like so: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, {
    ""plugins"": {
        ""datasette-auth-github"": {
            ""client_secret"": {
                ""$env"": ""GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET""
            }
        }
    }
}) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 As values in separate files . Your secrets can also live in files on disk. To specify a secret should be read from a file, provide the full file path like this: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, {
    ""plugins"": {
        ""datasette-auth-github"": {
            ""client_secret"": {
                ""$file"": ""/secrets/client-secret""
            }
        }
    }
}) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 If you are publishing your data using the  datasette publish  family of commands, you can use the  --plugin-secret  option to set these secrets at publish time. For example, using Heroku you might run the following command: 
                 datasette publish heroku my_database.db \
    --name my-heroku-app-demo \
    --install=datasette-auth-github \
    --plugin-secret datasette-auth-github client_id your_client_id \
    --plugin-secret datasette-auth-github client_secret your_client_secret 
                 This will set the necessary environment variables and add the following to the deployed  metadata.yaml : 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, {
    ""plugins"": {
        ""datasette-auth-github"": {
            ""client_id"": {
                ""$env"": ""DATASETTE_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID""
            },
            ""client_secret"": {
                ""$env"": ""DATASETTE_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET""
            }
        }
    }
}) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]]","[""Plugins"", ""Plugin configuration""]",[]
contributing:contributing-documentation-cog,contributing,contributing-documentation-cog,Running Cog,"Some pages of documentation (in particular the  CLI reference ) are automatically updated using  Cog . 
                 To update these pages, run the following command: 
                 cog -r docs/*.rst","[""Contributing"", ""Editing and building the documentation""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/nedbat/cog"", ""label"": ""Cog""}]"
deploying:deploying-buildpacks,deploying,deploying-buildpacks,Deploying using buildpacks,"Some hosting providers such as  Heroku ,  DigitalOcean App Platform  and  Scalingo  support the  Buildpacks standard  for deploying Python web applications. 
             Deploying Datasette on these platforms requires two files:  requirements.txt  and  Procfile . 
             The  requirements.txt  file lets the platform know which Python packages should be installed. It should contain  datasette  at a minimum, but can also list any Datasette plugins you wish to install - for example: 
             datasette
datasette-vega 
             The  Procfile  lets the hosting platform know how to run the command that serves web traffic. It should look like this: 
             web: datasette . -h 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT --cors 
             The  $PORT  environment variable is provided by the hosting platform.  --cors  enables CORS requests from JavaScript running on other websites to your domain - omit this if you don't want to allow CORS. You can add additional Datasette  Settings  options here too. 
             These two files should be enough to deploy Datasette on any host that supports buildpacks. Datasette will serve any SQLite files that are included in the root directory of the application. 
             If you want to build SQLite files or download them as part of the deployment process you can do so using a  bin/post_compile  file. For example, the following  bin/post_compile  will download an example database that will then be served by Datasette: 
             wget https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.db 
             simonw/buildpack-datasette-demo  is an example GitHub repository showing a Datasette configuration that can be deployed to a buildpack-supporting host.","[""Deploying Datasette""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.heroku.com/"", ""label"": ""Heroku""}, {""href"": ""https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/"", ""label"": ""DigitalOcean App Platform""}, {""href"": ""https://scalingo.com/"", ""label"": ""Scalingo""}, {""href"": ""https://buildpacks.io/"", ""label"": ""Buildpacks standard""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/buildpack-datasette-demo"", ""label"": ""simonw/buildpack-datasette-demo""}]"
changelog:csrf-protection,changelog,csrf-protection,CSRF protection,"Since writable canned queries are built using POST forms, Datasette now ships with  CSRF protection  ( #798 ). This applies automatically to any POST request, which means plugins need to include a  csrftoken  in any POST forms that they render. They can do that like so: 
                 <input type=""hidden"" name=""csrftoken"" value=""{{ csrftoken() }}"">","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/798"", ""label"": ""#798""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-versions,introspection,jsondataview-versions,/-/versions,"Shows the version of Datasette, Python and SQLite.  Versions example : 
             {
    ""datasette"": {
        ""version"": ""0.60""
    },
    ""python"": {
        ""full"": ""3.8.12 (default, Dec 21 2021, 10:45:09) \n[GCC 10.2.1 20210110]"",
        ""version"": ""3.8.12""
    },
    ""sqlite"": {
        ""extensions"": {
            ""json1"": null
        },
        ""fts_versions"": [
            ""FTS5"",
            ""FTS4"",
            ""FTS3""
        ],
        ""compile_options"": [
            ""COMPILER=gcc-6.3.0 20170516"",
            ""ENABLE_FTS3"",
            ""ENABLE_FTS4"",
            ""ENABLE_FTS5"",
            ""ENABLE_JSON1"",
            ""ENABLE_RTREE"",
            ""THREADSAFE=1""
        ],
        ""version"": ""3.37.0""
    }
}","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/versions"", ""label"": ""Versions example""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-actor,introspection,jsondataview-actor,/-/actor,"Shows the currently authenticated actor. Useful for debugging Datasette authentication plugins. 
             {
    ""actor"": {
        ""id"": 1,
        ""username"": ""some-user""
    }
}","[""Introspection""]",[]
introspection:jsondataview-metadata,introspection,jsondataview-metadata,/-/metadata,"Shows the contents of the  metadata.json  file that was passed to  datasette serve , if any.  Metadata example : 
             {
    ""license"": ""CC Attribution 4.0 License"",
    ""license_url"": ""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"",
    ""source"": ""fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub"",
    ""source_url"": ""https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data"",
    ""title"": ""Five Thirty Eight"",
    ""databases"": {

    }
}","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/-/metadata"", ""label"": ""Metadata example""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-config,introspection,jsondataview-config,/-/config,"Shows the  configuration  for this instance of Datasette. This is generally the contents of the  datasette.yaml or datasette.json  file, which can include plugin configuration as well.  Config example : 
             {
    ""settings"": {
        ""template_debug"": true,
        ""trace_debug"": true,
        ""force_https_urls"": true
    }
} 
             Any keys that include the one of the following substrings in their names will be returned as redacted  ***  output, to help avoid accidentally leaking private configuration information:  secret ,  key ,  password ,  token ,  hash ,  dsn .","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/config"", ""label"": ""Config example""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-settings,introspection,jsondataview-settings,/-/settings,"Shows the  Settings  for this instance of Datasette.  Settings example : 
             {
    ""default_facet_size"": 30,
    ""default_page_size"": 100,
    ""facet_suggest_time_limit_ms"": 50,
    ""facet_time_limit_ms"": 1000,
    ""max_returned_rows"": 1000,
    ""sql_time_limit_ms"": 1000
}","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/-/settings"", ""label"": ""Settings example""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-threads,introspection,jsondataview-threads,/-/threads,"Shows details of threads and  asyncio  tasks.  Threads example : 
             {
    ""num_threads"": 2,
    ""threads"": [
        {
            ""daemon"": false,
            ""ident"": 4759197120,
            ""name"": ""MainThread""
        },
        {
            ""daemon"": true,
            ""ident"": 123145319682048,
            ""name"": ""Thread-1""
        },
    ],
    ""num_tasks"": 3,
    ""tasks"": [
        ""<Task pending coro=<RequestResponseCycle.run_asgi() running at uvicorn/protocols/http/httptools_impl.py:385> cb=[set.discard()]>"",
        ""<Task pending coro=<Server.serve() running at uvicorn/main.py:361> wait_for=<Future pending cb=[<TaskWakeupMethWrapper object at 0x10365c3d0>()]> cb=[run_until_complete.<locals>.<lambda>()]>"",
        ""<Task pending coro=<LifespanOn.main() running at uvicorn/lifespan/on.py:48> wait_for=<Future pending cb=[<TaskWakeupMethWrapper object at 0x10364f050>()]>>""
    ]
}","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/threads"", ""label"": ""Threads example""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-databases,introspection,jsondataview-databases,/-/databases,"Shows currently attached databases.  Databases example : 
             [
    {
        ""hash"": null,
        ""is_memory"": false,
        ""is_mutable"": true,
        ""name"": ""fixtures"",
        ""path"": ""fixtures.db"",
        ""size"": 225280
    }
]","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/databases"", ""label"": ""Databases example""}]"
introspection:jsondataview-plugins,introspection,jsondataview-plugins,/-/plugins,"Shows a list of currently installed plugins and their versions.  Plugins example : 
             [
    {
        ""name"": ""datasette_cluster_map"",
        ""static"": true,
        ""templates"": false,
        ""version"": ""0.10"",
        ""hooks"": [""extra_css_urls"", ""extra_js_urls"", ""extra_body_script""]
    }
] 
             Add  ?all=1  to include details of the default plugins baked into Datasette.","[""Introspection""]","[{""href"": ""https://san-francisco.datasettes.com/-/plugins"", ""label"": ""Plugins example""}]"
cli-reference:cli-help-publish-help,cli-reference,cli-help-publish-help,datasette publish,"Shows a list of available deployment targets for  publishing data  with Datasette. 
             Additional deployment targets can be added by plugins that use the  publish_subcommand(publish)  hook. 
             [[[cog
help([""publish"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette publish [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Publish specified SQLite database files to the internet along with a
  Datasette-powered interface and API

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  cloudrun  Publish databases to Datasette running on Cloud Run
  heroku    Publish databases to Datasette running on Heroku 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
changelog:id39,changelog,id39,0.52.4 (2020-12-05),"Show  pysqlite3  version on  /-/versions , if installed. ( #1125 ) 
                 
                 
                     Errors output by Datasette (e.g. for invalid SQL queries) now go to  stderr , not  stdout . ( #1131 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fix for a startup error on windows caused by unnecessary  from os import EX_CANTCREAT  - thanks, Abdussamet Koçak.  ( #1094 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3"", ""label"": ""pysqlite3""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1125"", ""label"": ""#1125""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1131"", ""label"": ""#1131""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1094"", ""label"": ""#1094""}]"
settings:setting-default-allow-sql,settings,setting-default-allow-sql,default_allow_sql,"Should users be able to execute arbitrary SQL queries by default? 
                 Setting this to  off  causes permission checks for  execute-sql  to fail by default. 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_allow_sql off 
                 Another way to achieve this is to add  ""allow_sql"": false  to your  datasette.yaml  file, as described in  Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL . This setting offers a more convenient way to do this.","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
settings:setting-allow-download,settings,setting-allow-download,allow_download,"Should users be able to download the original SQLite database using a link on the database index page? This is turned on by default. However, databases can only be downloaded if they are served in immutable mode and not in-memory. If downloading is unavailable for either of these reasons, the download link is hidden even if  allow_download  is on. To disable database downloads, use the following: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_download off","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
settings:setting-allow-signed-tokens,settings,setting-allow-signed-tokens,allow_signed_tokens,"Should users be able to create signed API tokens to access Datasette? 
                 This is turned on by default. Use the following to turn it off: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_signed_tokens off 
                 Turning this setting off will disable the  /-/create-token  page,  described here . It will also cause any incoming  Authorization: Bearer dstok_...  API tokens to be ignored.","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
settings:setting-suggest-facets,settings,setting-suggest-facets,suggest_facets,"Should Datasette calculate suggested facets? On by default, turn this off like so: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting suggest_facets off","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
binary_data:binary-plugins,binary_data,binary-plugins,Binary plugins,"Several Datasette plugins are available that change the way Datasette treats binary data. 
             
                 
                     datasette-render-binary  modifies Datasette's default interface to show an automatic guess at what type of binary data is being stored, along with a visual representation of the binary value that displays ASCII strings directly in the interface. 
                 
                 
                     datasette-render-images  detects common image formats and renders them as images directly in the Datasette interface. 
                 
                 
                     datasette-media  allows Datasette interfaces to be configured to serve binary files from configured SQL queries, and includes the ability to resize images directly before serving them.","[""Binary data""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-binary"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-binary""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-images"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-images""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-media"", ""label"": ""datasette-media""}]"
configuration:configuration-reference-settings,configuration,configuration-reference-settings,Settings,"Settings  can be configured in  datasette.yaml  with the  settings  key: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    # inside datasette.yaml
    settings:
      default_allow_sql: off
      default_page_size: 50
    """""").strip()
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 The full list of settings is available in the  settings documentation . Settings can also be passed to Datasette using one or more  --setting name value  command line options.`","[""Configuration"", null]",[]
settings:setting-cache-size-kb,settings,setting-cache-size-kb,cache_size_kb,"Sets the amount of memory SQLite uses for its  per-connection cache , in KB. 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting cache_size_kb 5000","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size"", ""label"": ""per-connection cache""}]"
changelog:id51,changelog,id51,0.49 (2020-09-14),"See also  Datasette 0.49: The annotated release notes . 
             
                 
                     Writable canned queries now expose a JSON API, see  JSON API for writable canned queries . ( #880 ) 
                 
                 
                     New mechanism for defining page templates with custom path parameters - a template file called  pages/about/{slug}.html  will be used to render any requests to  /about/something . See  Path parameters for pages . ( #944 ) 
                 
                 
                     register_output_renderer()  render functions can now return a  Response . ( #953 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  --upgrade  option for  datasette install . ( #945 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette --pdb  option. ( #962 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette --get  exit code now reflects the internal HTTP status code. ( #947 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  raise_404()  template function for returning 404 errors. ( #964 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette publish heroku  now deploys using Python 3.8.5 
                 
                 
                     Upgraded  CodeMirror  to 5.57.0. ( #948 ) 
                 
                 
                     Upgraded code style to Black 20.8b1. ( #958 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where selected facets were not correctly persisted in hidden form fields on the table page. ( #963 ) 
                 
                 
                     Renamed the default error template from  500.html  to  error.html . 
                 
                 
                     Custom error pages are now documented, see  Custom error pages . ( #965 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Sep/15/datasette-0-49/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 0.49: The annotated release notes""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/880"", ""label"": ""#880""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/944"", ""label"": ""#944""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/953"", ""label"": ""#953""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/945"", ""label"": ""#945""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/962"", ""label"": ""#962""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/947"", ""label"": ""#947""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/964"", ""label"": ""#964""}, {""href"": ""https://codemirror.net/"", ""label"": ""CodeMirror""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/948"", ""label"": ""#948""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/958"", ""label"": ""#958""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/963"", ""label"": ""#963""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/965"", ""label"": ""#965""}]"
changelog:id58,changelog,id58,0.45 (2020-07-01),"See also  Datasette 0.45: The annotated release notes . 
             Magic parameters for canned queries, a log out feature, improved plugin documentation and four new plugin hooks.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/1/datasette-045/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 0.45: The annotated release notes""}]"
changelog:id60,changelog,id60,0.44 (2020-06-11),"See also  Datasette 0.44: The annotated release notes . 
             Authentication and permissions, writable canned queries, flash messages, new plugin hooks and more.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jun/12/annotated-release-notes/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 0.44: The annotated release notes""}]"
cli-reference:cli-help-publish-heroku-help,cli-reference,cli-help-publish-heroku-help,datasette publish heroku,"See  Publishing to Heroku . 
             [[[cog
help([""publish"", ""heroku"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette publish heroku [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

  Publish databases to Datasette running on Heroku

Options:
  -m, --metadata FILENAME         Path to JSON/YAML file containing metadata to
                                  publish
  --extra-options TEXT            Extra options to pass to datasette serve
  --branch TEXT                   Install datasette from a GitHub branch e.g.
                                  main
  --template-dir DIRECTORY        Path to directory containing custom templates
  --plugins-dir DIRECTORY         Path to directory containing custom plugins
  --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY        Serve static files from this directory at
                                  /MOUNT/...
  --install TEXT                  Additional packages (e.g. plugins) to install
  --plugin-secret <TEXT TEXT TEXT>...
                                  Secrets to pass to plugins, e.g. --plugin-
                                  secret datasette-auth-github client_id xxx
  --version-note TEXT             Additional note to show on /-/versions
  --secret TEXT                   Secret used for signing secure values, such as
                                  signed cookies
  --title TEXT                    Title for metadata
  --license TEXT                  License label for metadata
  --license_url TEXT              License URL for metadata
  --source TEXT                   Source label for metadata
  --source_url TEXT               Source URL for metadata
  --about TEXT                    About label for metadata
  --about_url TEXT                About URL for metadata
  -n, --name TEXT                 Application name to use when deploying
  --tar TEXT                      --tar option to pass to Heroku, e.g.
                                  --tar=/usr/local/bin/gtar
  --generate-dir DIRECTORY        Output generated application files and stop
                                  without deploying
  --help                          Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
cli-reference:cli-help-publish-cloudrun-help,cli-reference,cli-help-publish-cloudrun-help,datasette publish cloudrun,"See  Publishing to Google Cloud Run . 
             [[[cog
help([""publish"", ""cloudrun"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette publish cloudrun [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

  Publish databases to Datasette running on Cloud Run

Options:
  -m, --metadata FILENAME         Path to JSON/YAML file containing metadata to
                                  publish
  --extra-options TEXT            Extra options to pass to datasette serve
  --branch TEXT                   Install datasette from a GitHub branch e.g.
                                  main
  --template-dir DIRECTORY        Path to directory containing custom templates
  --plugins-dir DIRECTORY         Path to directory containing custom plugins
  --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY        Serve static files from this directory at
                                  /MOUNT/...
  --install TEXT                  Additional packages (e.g. plugins) to install
  --plugin-secret <TEXT TEXT TEXT>...
                                  Secrets to pass to plugins, e.g. --plugin-
                                  secret datasette-auth-github client_id xxx
  --version-note TEXT             Additional note to show on /-/versions
  --secret TEXT                   Secret used for signing secure values, such as
                                  signed cookies
  --title TEXT                    Title for metadata
  --license TEXT                  License label for metadata
  --license_url TEXT              License URL for metadata
  --source TEXT                   Source label for metadata
  --source_url TEXT               Source URL for metadata
  --about TEXT                    About label for metadata
  --about_url TEXT                About URL for metadata
  -n, --name TEXT                 Application name to use when building
  --service TEXT                  Cloud Run service to deploy (or over-write)
  --spatialite                    Enable SpatialLite extension
  --show-files                    Output the generated Dockerfile and
                                  metadata.json
  --memory TEXT                   Memory to allocate in Cloud Run, e.g. 1Gi
  --cpu [1|2|4]                   Number of vCPUs to allocate in Cloud Run
  --timeout INTEGER               Build timeout in seconds
  --apt-get-install TEXT          Additional packages to apt-get install
  --max-instances INTEGER         Maximum Cloud Run instances
  --min-instances INTEGER         Minimum Cloud Run instances
  --help                          Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
changelog:id11,changelog,id11,0.63 (2022-10-27),See  Datasette 0.63: The annotated release notes  for more background on the changes in this release.,"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/27/datasette-0-63/"", ""label"": ""Datasette 0.63: The annotated release notes""}]"
changelog:id183,changelog,id183,0.13 (2017-11-24),"Search now applies to current filters. 
                     Combined search into the same form as filters. 
                     Closes  #133 
                 
                 
                     Much tidier design for table view header. 
                     Closes  #147 
                 
                 
                     Added  ?column__not=blah  filter. 
                     Closes  #148 
                 
                 
                     Row page now resolves foreign keys. 
                     Closes  #132 
                 
                 
                     Further tweaks to select/input filter styling. 
                     Refs  #86  - thanks for the help, @natbat! 
                 
                 
                     Show linked foreign key in table cells. 
                 
                 
                     Added UI for editing table filters. 
                     Refs  #86 
                 
                 
                     Hide FTS-created tables on index pages. 
                     Closes  #129 
                 
                 
                     Add publish to heroku support [Jacob Kaplan-Moss] 
                     datasette publish heroku mydb.db 
                     Pull request  #104 
                 
                 
                     Initial implementation of  ?_group_count=column . 
                     URL shortcut for counting rows grouped by one or more columns. 
                     ?_group_count=column1&_group_count=column2  works as well. 
                     SQL generated looks like this: 
                     select ""qSpecies"", count(*) as ""count""
from Street_Tree_List
group by ""qSpecies""
order by ""count"" desc limit 100 
                     Or for two columns like this: 
                     select ""qSpecies"", ""qSiteInfo"", count(*) as ""count""
from Street_Tree_List
group by ""qSpecies"", ""qSiteInfo""
order by ""count"" desc limit 100 
                     Refs  #44 
                 
                 
                     Added  --build=master  option to datasette publish and package. 
                     The  datasette publish  and  datasette package  commands both now accept an
                        optional  --build  argument. If provided, this can be used to specify a branch
                        published to GitHub that should be built into the container. 
                     This makes it easier to test code that has not yet been officially released to
                        PyPI, e.g.: 
                     datasette publish now mydb.db --branch=master 
                 
                 
                     Implemented  ?_search=XXX  + UI if a FTS table is detected. 
                     Closes  #131 
                 
                 
                     Added  datasette --version  support. 
                 
                 
                     Table views now show expanded foreign key references, if possible. 
                     If a table has foreign key columns, and those foreign key tables have
                         label_columns , the TableView will now query those other tables for the
                        corresponding values and display those values as links in the corresponding
                        table cells. 
                     label_columns are currently detected by the  inspect()  function, which looks
                        for any table that has just two columns - an ID column and one other - and
                        sets the  label_column  to be that second non-ID column. 
                 
                 
                     Don't prevent tabbing to ""Run SQL"" button ( #117 ) [Robert Gieseke] 
                     See comment in  #115 
                 
                 
                     Add keyboard shortcut to execute SQL query ( #115 ) [Robert Gieseke] 
                 
                 
                     Allow  --load-extension  to be set via environment variable. 
                 
                 
                     Add support for  ?field__isnull=1  ( #107 ) [Ray N] 
                 
                 
                     Add spatialite, switch to debian and local build ( #114 ) [Ariel Núñez] 
                 
                 
                     Added  --load-extension  argument to datasette serve. 
                     Allows loading of SQLite extensions. Refs  #110 .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/133"", ""label"": ""#133""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/147"", ""label"": ""#147""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/148"", ""label"": ""#148""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/132"", ""label"": ""#132""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/86"", ""label"": ""#86""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/86"", ""label"": ""#86""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/129"", ""label"": ""#129""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/104"", ""label"": ""#104""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/44"", ""label"": ""#44""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/131"", ""label"": ""#131""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/117"", ""label"": ""#117""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/115"", ""label"": ""#115""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/115"", ""label"": ""#115""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/107"", ""label"": ""#107""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/114"", ""label"": ""#114""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/110"", ""label"": ""#110""}]"
changelog:binary-data,changelog,binary-data,Binary data,"SQLite tables can contain binary data in  BLOB  columns. Datasette now provides links for users to download this data directly from Datasette, and uses those links to make binary data available from CSV exports. See  Binary data  for more details. ( #1036  and  #1034 ).","[""Changelog"", ""0.51 (2020-10-31)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1036"", ""label"": ""#1036""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034"", ""label"": ""#1034""}]"
binary_data:binary,binary_data,binary,Binary data,"SQLite tables can contain binary data in  BLOB  columns. 
         Datasette includes special handling for these binary values. The Datasette interface detects binary values and provides a link to download their content, for example on  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data 
         
         Binary data is represented in  .json  exports using Base64 encoding. 
         https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data.json?_shape=array 
         [
    {
        ""rowid"": 1,
        ""data"": {
            ""$base64"": true,
            ""encoded"": ""FRwCx60F/g==""
        }
    },
    {
        ""rowid"": 2,
        ""data"": {
            ""$base64"": true,
            ""encoded"": ""FRwDx60F/g==""
        }
    },
    {
        ""rowid"": 3,
        ""data"": null
    }
]",[],"[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data.json?_shape=array"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data.json?_shape=array""}]"
installation:installation-extensions,installation,installation-extensions,A note about extensions,"SQLite supports extensions, such as  SpatiaLite  for geospatial operations. 
             These can be loaded using the  --load-extension  argument, like so: 
             datasette --load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib 
             Some Python installations do not include support for SQLite extensions. If this is the case you will see the following error when you attempt to load an extension: 
             
                 Your Python installation does not have the ability to load SQLite extensions. 
             
             In some cases you may see the following error message instead: 
             AttributeError: 'sqlite3.Connection' object has no attribute 'enable_load_extension' 
             On macOS the easiest fix for this is to install Datasette using Homebrew: 
             brew install datasette 
             Use  which datasette  to confirm that  datasette  will run that version. The output should look something like this: 
             /usr/local/opt/datasette/bin/datasette 
             If you get a different location here such as  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/datasette  you can run the following command to cause  datasette  to execute the Homebrew version instead: 
             alias datasette=$(echo $(brew --prefix datasette)/bin/datasette) 
             You can undo this operation using: 
             unalias datasette 
             If you need to run SQLite with extension support for other Python code, you can do so by install Python itself using Homebrew: 
             brew install python 
             Then executing Python using: 
             /usr/local/opt/python@3/libexec/bin/python 
             A more convenient way to work with this version of Python may be to use it to create a virtual environment: 
             /usr/local/opt/python@3/libexec/bin/python -m venv datasette-venv 
             Then activate it like this: 
             source datasette-venv/bin/activate 
             Now running  python  and  pip  will work against a version of Python 3 that includes support for SQLite extensions: 
             pip install datasette
which datasette
datasette --version","[""Installation""]",[]
internals:database-execute-write,internals,database-execute-write,"await db.execute_write(sql, params=None, block=True)","SQLite only allows one database connection to write at a time. Datasette handles this for you by maintaining a queue of writes to be executed against a given database. Plugins can submit write operations to this queue and they will be executed in the order in which they are received. 
                 This method can be used to queue up a non-SELECT SQL query to be executed against a single write connection to the database. 
                 You can pass additional SQL parameters as a tuple or dictionary. 
                 The method will block until the operation is completed, and the return value will be the return from calling  conn.execute(...)  using the underlying  sqlite3  Python library. 
                 If you pass  block=False  this behavior changes to ""fire and forget"" - queries will be added to the write queue and executed in a separate thread while your code can continue to do other things. The method will return a UUID representing the queued task. 
                 Each call to  execute_write()  will be executed inside a transaction.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
full_text_search:id1,full_text_search,id1,Full-text search,"SQLite includes  a powerful mechanism for enabling full-text search  against SQLite records. Datasette can detect if a table has had full-text search configured for it in the underlying database and display a search interface for filtering that table. 
         Here's  an example search : 
         
         Datasette automatically detects which tables have been configured for full-text search.",[],"[{""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html"", ""label"": ""a powerful mechanism for enabling full-text search""}, {""href"": ""https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/regmem/items?_search=hamper&_sort_desc=date"", ""label"": ""an example search""}]"
sql_queries:id3,sql_queries,id3,Cross-database queries,"SQLite has the ability to run queries that join across multiple databases. Up to ten databases can be attached to a single SQLite connection and queried together. 
             Datasette can execute joins across multiple databases if it is started with the  --crossdb  option: 
             datasette fixtures.db extra_database.db --crossdb 
             If it is started in this way, the  /_memory  page can be used to execute queries that join across multiple databases. 
             References to tables in attached databases should be preceded by the database name and a period. 
             For example, this query will show a list of tables across both of the above databases: 
             select
  'fixtures' as database, *
from
  [fixtures].sqlite_master
union
select
  'extra_database' as database, *
from
  [extra_database].sqlite_master 
             Try that out here .","[""Running SQL queries""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/_memory?sql=select%0D%0A++%27fixtures%27+as+database%2C+*%0D%0Afrom%0D%0A++%5Bfixtures%5D.sqlite_master%0D%0Aunion%0D%0Aselect%0D%0A++%27extra_database%27+as+database%2C+*%0D%0Afrom%0D%0A++%5Bextra_database%5D.sqlite_master"", ""label"": ""Try that out here""}]"
full_text_search:full-text-search-advanced-queries,full_text_search,full-text-search-advanced-queries,Advanced SQLite search queries,"SQLite full-text search includes support for  a variety of advanced queries , including  AND ,  OR ,  NOT  and  NEAR . 
             By default Datasette disables these features to ensure they do not cause errors or confusion for users who are not aware of them. You can disable this escaping and use the advanced queries by adding  &_searchmode=raw  to the table page query string. 
             If you want to enable these operators by default for a specific table, you can do so by adding  ""searchmode"": ""raw""  to the metadata configuration for that table, see  Configuring full-text search for a table or view . 
             If that option has been specified in the table metadata but you want to over-ride it and return to the default behavior you can append  &_searchmode=escaped  to the query string.","[""Full-text search""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#full_text_query_syntax"", ""label"": ""a variety of advanced queries""}]"
changelog:v0-28-register-output-renderer,changelog,v0-28-register-output-renderer,register_output_renderer plugins,"Russ Garrett implemented a new Datasette plugin hook called  register_output_renderer  ( #441 ) which allows plugins to create additional output renderers in addition to Datasette's default  .json  and  .csv . 
                 Russ's in-development  datasette-geo  plugin includes  an example  of this hook being used to output  .geojson  automatically converted from SpatiaLite.","[""Changelog"", ""0.28 (2019-05-19)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/441"", ""label"": ""#441""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/russss/datasette-geo"", ""label"": ""datasette-geo""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/russss/datasette-geo/blob/d4cecc020848bbde91e9e17bf352f7c70bc3dccf/datasette_plugin_geo/geojson.py"", ""label"": ""an example""}]"
internals:internals-tracer,internals,internals-tracer,datasette.tracer,"Running Datasette with  --setting trace_debug 1  enables trace debug output, which can then be viewed by adding  ?_trace=1  to the query string for any page. 
             You can see an example of this at the bottom of  latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_trace=1 . The JSON output shows full details of every SQL query that was executed to generate the page. 
             The  datasette-pretty-traces  plugin can be installed to provide a more readable display of this information. You can see  a demo of that here . 
             You can add your own custom traces to the JSON output using the  trace()  context manager. This takes a string that identifies the type of trace being recorded, and records any keyword arguments as additional JSON keys on the resulting trace object. 
             The start and end time, duration and a traceback of where the trace was executed will be automatically attached to the JSON object. 
             This example uses trace to record the start, end and duration of any HTTP GET requests made using the function: 
             from datasette.tracer import trace
import httpx


async def fetch_url(url):
    with trace(""fetch-url"", url=url):
        async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
            return await client.get(url)","[""Internals for plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_trace=1"", ""label"": ""latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_trace=1""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-pretty-traces"", ""label"": ""datasette-pretty-traces""}, {""href"": ""https://latest-with-plugins.datasette.io/github/commits?_trace=1"", ""label"": ""a demo of that here""}]"
cli-reference:cli-help-help,cli-reference,cli-help-help,datasette --help,"Running  datasette --help  shows a list of all of the available commands. 
             [[[cog
help([""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Datasette is an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

  About Datasette: https://datasette.io/
  Full documentation: https://docs.datasette.io/

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  serve*        Serve up specified SQLite database files with a web UI
  create-token  Create a signed API token for the specified actor ID
  inspect       Generate JSON summary of provided database files
  install       Install plugins and packages from PyPI into the same...
  package       Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container
  plugins       List currently installed plugins
  publish       Publish specified SQLite database files to the internet...
  uninstall     Uninstall plugins and Python packages from the Datasette... 
             [[[end]]] 
             Additional commands added by plugins that use the  register_commands(cli)  hook will be listed here as well.","[""CLI reference""]",[]
internals:id1,internals,id1,.get_internal_database(),Returns a database object for reading and writing to the private  internal database .,"[""Internals for plugins"", ""Datasette class""]",[]
plugin_hooks:plugin-asgi-wrapper,plugin_hooks,plugin-asgi-wrapper,asgi_wrapper(datasette),"Return an  ASGI  middleware wrapper function that will be applied to the Datasette ASGI application. 
             This is a very powerful hook. You can use it to manipulate the entire Datasette response, or even to configure new URL routes that will be handled by your own custom code. 
             You can write your ASGI code directly against the low-level specification, or you can use the middleware utilities provided by an ASGI framework such as  Starlette . 
             This example plugin adds a  x-databases  HTTP header listing the currently attached databases: 
             from datasette import hookimpl
from functools import wraps


@hookimpl
def asgi_wrapper(datasette):
    def wrap_with_databases_header(app):
        @wraps(app)
        async def add_x_databases_header(
            scope, receive, send
        ):
            async def wrapped_send(event):
                if event[""type""] == ""http.response.start"":
                    original_headers = (
                        event.get(""headers"") or []
                    )
                    event = {
                        ""type"": event[""type""],
                        ""status"": event[""status""],
                        ""headers"": original_headers
                        + [
                            [
                                b""x-databases"",
                                "", "".join(
                                    datasette.databases.keys()
                                ).encode(""utf-8""),
                            ]
                        ],
                    }
                await send(event)

            await app(scope, receive, wrapped_send)

        return add_x_databases_header

    return wrap_with_databases_header 
             Examples:  datasette-cors ,  datasette-pyinstrument ,  datasette-total-page-time","[""Plugin hooks""]","[{""href"": ""https://asgi.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""ASGI""}, {""href"": ""https://www.starlette.io/middleware/"", ""label"": ""Starlette""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cors"", ""label"": ""datasette-cors""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-pyinstrument"", ""label"": ""datasette-pyinstrument""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-total-page-time"", ""label"": ""datasette-total-page-time""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-register-facet-classes,plugin_hooks,plugin-register-facet-classes,register_facet_classes(),"Return a list of additional Facet subclasses to be registered. 
             
                 The design of this plugin hook is unstable and may change. See  issue 830 . 
             
             Each Facet subclass implements a new type of facet operation. The class should look like this: 
             class SpecialFacet(Facet):
    # This key must be unique across all facet classes:
    type = ""special""

    async def suggest(self):
        # Use self.sql and self.params to suggest some facets
        suggested_facets = []
        suggested_facets.append(
            {
                ""name"": column,  # Or other unique name
                # Construct the URL that will enable this facet:
                ""toggle_url"": self.ds.absolute_url(
                    self.request,
                    path_with_added_args(
                        self.request, {""_facet"": column}
                    ),
                ),
            }
        )
        return suggested_facets

    async def facet_results(self):
        # This should execute the facet operation and return results, again
        # using self.sql and self.params as the starting point
        facet_results = []
        facets_timed_out = []
        facet_size = self.get_facet_size()
        # Do some calculations here...
        for column in columns_selected_for_facet:
            try:
                facet_results_values = []
                # More calculations...
                facet_results_values.append(
                    {
                        ""value"": value,
                        ""label"": label,
                        ""count"": count,
                        ""toggle_url"": self.ds.absolute_url(
                            self.request, toggle_path
                        ),
                        ""selected"": selected,
                    }
                )
                facet_results.append(
                    {
                        ""name"": column,
                        ""results"": facet_results_values,
                        ""truncated"": len(facet_rows_results)
                        > facet_size,
                    }
                )
            except QueryInterrupted:
                facets_timed_out.append(column)

        return facet_results, facets_timed_out 
             See  datasette/facets.py  for examples of how these classes can work. 
             The plugin hook can then be used to register the new facet class like this: 
             @hookimpl
def register_facet_classes():
    return [SpecialFacet]","[""Plugin hooks""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/830"", ""label"": ""issue 830""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/datasette/facets.py"", ""label"": ""datasette/facets.py""}]"
changelog:id154,changelog,id154,0.17 (2018-04-13),Release 0.17 to fix issues with PyPI,"[""Changelog""]",[]
testing_plugins:testing-plugins-fixtures,testing_plugins,testing-plugins-fixtures,Using pytest fixtures,"Pytest fixtures  can be used to create initial testable objects which can then be used by multiple tests. 
             A common pattern for Datasette plugins is to create a fixture which sets up a temporary test database and wraps it in a Datasette instance. 
             Here's an example that uses the  sqlite-utils library  to populate a temporary test database. It also sets the title of that table using a simulated  metadata.json  configuration: 
             from datasette.app import Datasette
import pytest
import sqlite_utils


@pytest.fixture(scope=""session"")
def datasette(tmp_path_factory):
    db_directory = tmp_path_factory.mktemp(""dbs"")
    db_path = db_directory / ""test.db""
    db = sqlite_utils.Database(db_path)
    db[""dogs""].insert_all(
        [
            {""id"": 1, ""name"": ""Cleo"", ""age"": 5},
            {""id"": 2, ""name"": ""Pancakes"", ""age"": 4},
        ],
        pk=""id"",
    )
    datasette = Datasette(
        [db_path],
        metadata={
            ""databases"": {
                ""test"": {
                    ""tables"": {
                        ""dogs"": {""title"": ""Some dogs""}
                    }
                }
            }
        },
    )
    return datasette


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_example_table_json(datasette):
    response = await datasette.client.get(
        ""/test/dogs.json?_shape=array""
    )
    assert response.status_code == 200
    assert response.json() == [
        {""id"": 1, ""name"": ""Cleo"", ""age"": 5},
        {""id"": 2, ""name"": ""Pancakes"", ""age"": 4},
    ]


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_example_table_html(datasette):
    response = await datasette.client.get(""/test/dogs"")
    assert "">Some dogs</h1>"" in response.text 
             Here the  datasette()  function defines the fixture, which is than automatically passed to the two test functions based on pytest automatically matching their  datasette  function parameters. 
             The  @pytest.fixture(scope=""session"")  line here ensures the fixture is reused for the full  pytest  execution session. This means that the temporary database file will be created once and reused for each test. 
             If you want to create that test database repeatedly for every individual test function, write the fixture function like this instead. You may want to do this if your plugin modifies the database contents in some way: 
             @pytest.fixture
def datasette(tmp_path_factory):
    # This fixture will be executed repeatedly for every test
    ...","[""Testing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/fixture.html"", ""label"": ""Pytest fixtures""}, {""href"": ""https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html"", ""label"": ""sqlite-utils library""}]"
internals:datasette-permissions,internals,datasette-permissions,.permissions,"Property exposing a dictionary of permissions that have been registered using the  register_permissions(datasette)  plugin hook. 
                 The dictionary keys are the permission names - e.g.  view-instance  - and the values are  Permission()  objects describing the permission. Here is a  description of that object .","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Datasette class""]",[]
internals:datasette-databases,internals,datasette-databases,.databases,"Property exposing a  collections.OrderedDict  of databases currently connected to Datasette. 
                 The dictionary keys are the name of the database that is used in the URL - e.g.  /fixtures  would have a key of  ""fixtures"" . The values are  Database class  instances. 
                 All databases are listed, irrespective of user permissions.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Datasette class""]",[]
changelog:authentication,changelog,authentication,Authentication,"Prior to this release the Datasette ecosystem has treated authentication as exclusively the realm of plugins, most notably through  datasette-auth-github . 
                 0.44 introduces  Authentication and permissions  as core Datasette concepts ( #699 ). This enables different plugins to share responsibility for authenticating requests - you might have one plugin that handles user accounts and another one that allows automated access via API keys, for example. 
                 You'll need to install plugins if you want full user accounts, but default Datasette can now authenticate a single root user with the new  --root  command-line option, which outputs a one-time use URL to  authenticate as a root actor  ( #784 ): 
                 datasette fixtures.db --root 
                 http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/auth-token?token=5b632f8cd44b868df625f5a6e2185d88eea5b22237fd3cc8773f107cc4fd6477
INFO:     Started server process [14973]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8001 (Press CTRL+C to quit) 
                 Plugins can implement new ways of authenticating users using the new  actor_from_request(datasette, request)  hook.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-github""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/699"", ""label"": ""#699""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/784"", ""label"": ""#784""}]"
authentication:authentication-actor-matches-allow,authentication,authentication-actor-matches-allow,actor_matches_allow(),"Plugins that wish to implement this same  ""allow""  block permissions scheme can take advantage of the  datasette.utils.actor_matches_allow(actor, allow)  function: 
             from datasette.utils import actor_matches_allow

actor_matches_allow({""id"": ""root""}, {""id"": ""*""})
# returns True 
             The currently authenticated actor is made available to plugins as  request.actor .","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-building-urls,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-building-urls,Building URLs within plugins,"Plugins that define their own custom user interface elements may need to link to other pages within Datasette. 
             This can be a bit tricky if the Datasette instance is using the  base_url  configuration setting to run behind a proxy, since that can cause Datasette's URLs to include an additional prefix. 
             The  datasette.urls  object provides internal methods for correctly generating URLs to different pages within Datasette, taking any  base_url  configuration into account. 
             This object is exposed in templates as the  urls  variable, which can be used like this: 
             Back to the <a href=""{{ urls.instance() }}"">Homepage</a> 
             See  datasette.urls  for full details on this object.","[""Writing plugins""]",[]
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-cookiecutter,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-cookiecutter,Starting an installable plugin using cookiecutter,"Plugins that can be installed should be written as Python packages using a  setup.py  file. 
             The quickest way to start writing one an installable plugin is to use the  datasette-plugin  cookiecutter template. This creates a new plugin structure for you complete with an example test and GitHub Actions workflows for testing and publishing your plugin. 
             Install cookiecutter  and then run this command to start building a plugin using the template: 
             cookiecutter gh:simonw/datasette-plugin 
             Read  a cookiecutter template for writing Datasette plugins  for more information about this template.","[""Writing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin"", ""label"": ""datasette-plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html"", ""label"": ""Install cookiecutter""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jun/20/cookiecutter-plugins/"", ""label"": ""a cookiecutter template for writing Datasette plugins""}]"
changelog:id69,changelog,id69,0.37 (2020-02-25),"Plugins now have a supported mechanism for writing to a database, using the new  .execute_write()  and  .execute_write_fn()  methods.  Documentation . ( #682 ) 
                 
                 
                     Immutable databases that have had their rows counted using the  inspect  command now use the calculated count more effectively - thanks, Kevin Keogh. ( #666 ) 
                 
                 
                     --reload  no longer restarts the server if a database file is modified, unless that database was opened immutable mode with  -i . ( #494 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  ?_searchmode=raw  option turns off escaping for FTS queries in  ?_search=  allowing full use of SQLite's  FTS5 query syntax . ( #676 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/682"", ""label"": ""#682""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/666"", ""label"": ""#666""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/494"", ""label"": ""#494""}, {""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#full_text_query_syntax"", ""label"": ""FTS5 query syntax""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/676"", ""label"": ""#676""}]"
changelog:secret-plugin-configuration-options,changelog,secret-plugin-configuration-options,Secret plugin configuration options,"Plugins like  datasette-auth-github  need a safe way to set secret configuration options. Since the default mechanism for configuring plugins exposes those settings in  /-/metadata  a new mechanism was needed.  Secret configuration values  describes how plugins can now specify that their settings should be read from a file or an environment variable: 
                 {
    ""plugins"": {
        ""datasette-auth-github"": {
            ""client_secret"": {
                ""$env"": ""GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET""
            }
        }
    }
} 
                 These plugin secrets can be set directly using  datasette publish . See  Custom metadata and plugins  for details. ( #538  and  #543 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-github""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/538"", ""label"": ""#538""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/543"", ""label"": ""#543""}]"
changelog:cookie-methods,changelog,cookie-methods,Cookie methods,"Plugins can now use the new  response.set_cookie()  method to set cookies. 
                 A new  request.cookies  method on the :ref:internals_request` can be used to read incoming cookies.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]",[]
changelog:register-routes-plugin-hooks,changelog,register-routes-plugin-hooks,register_routes() plugin hooks,"Plugins can now register new views and routes via the  register_routes(datasette)  plugin hook ( #819 ). View functions can be defined that accept any of the current  datasette  object, the current  request , or the ASGI  scope ,  send  and  receive  objects.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/819"", ""label"": ""#819""}]"
internals:internals-datasette-client,internals,internals-datasette-client,datasette.client,"Plugins can make internal simulated HTTP requests to the Datasette instance within which they are running. This ensures that all of Datasette's external JSON APIs are also available to plugins, while avoiding the overhead of making an external HTTP call to access those APIs. 
                 The  datasette.client  object is a wrapper around the  HTTPX Python library , providing an async-friendly API that is similar to the widely used  Requests library . 
                 It offers the following methods: 
                 
                     
                         await datasette.client.get(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal GET request against that path. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.post(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal POST request. Use  data={""name"": ""value""}  to pass form parameters. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.options(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal OPTIONS request. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.head(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal HEAD request. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.put(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal PUT request. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.patch(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal PATCH request. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.delete(path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal DELETE request. 
                         
                     
                     
                         await datasette.client.request(method, path, **kwargs)  - returns HTTPX Response 
                         
                             Execute an internal request with the given HTTP method against that path. 
                         
                     
                 
                 These methods can be used with  datasette.urls  - for example: 
                 table_json = (
    await datasette.client.get(
        datasette.urls.table(
            ""fixtures"", ""facetable"", format=""json""
        )
    )
).json() 
                 datasette.client  methods automatically take the current  base_url  setting into account, whether or not you use the  datasette.urls  family of methods to construct the path. 
                 For documentation on available  **kwargs  options and the shape of the HTTPX Response object refer to the  HTTPX Async documentation .","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Datasette class""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.python-httpx.org/"", ""label"": ""HTTPX Python library""}, {""href"": ""https://requests.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""Requests library""}, {""href"": ""https://www.python-httpx.org/async/"", ""label"": ""HTTPX Async documentation""}]"
plugins:plugins-configuration,plugins,plugins-configuration,Plugin configuration,"Plugins can have their own configuration, embedded in a  configuration file . Configuration options for plugins live within a  ""plugins""  key in that file, which can be included at the root, database or table level. 
             Here is an example of some plugin configuration for a specific table: 
             [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
config_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""sf-trees"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""Street_Tree_List"": {
                    ""plugins"": {
                        ""datasette-cluster-map"": {
                            ""latitude_column"": ""lat"",
                            ""longitude_column"": ""lng""
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             This tells the  datasette-cluster-map  column which latitude and longitude columns should be used for a table called  Street_Tree_List  inside a database file called  sf-trees.db .","[""Plugins""]",[]
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-extra-hooks,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-extra-hooks,Plugins that define new plugin hooks,"Plugins can define new plugin hooks that other plugins can use to further extend their functionality. 
             datasette-graphql  is one example of a plugin that does this. It defines a new hook called  graphql_extra_fields ,  described here , which other plugins can use to define additional fields that should be included in the GraphQL schema. 
             To define additional hooks, add a file to the plugin called  datasette_your_plugin/hookspecs.py  with content that looks like this: 
             from pluggy import HookspecMarker

hookspec = HookspecMarker(""datasette"")


@hookspec
def name_of_your_hook_goes_here(datasette):
    ""Description of your hook."" 
             You should define your own hook name and arguments here, following the documentation for  Pluggy specifications . Make sure to pick a name that is unlikely to clash with hooks provided by any other plugins. 
             Then, to register your plugin hooks, add the following code to your  datasette_your_plugin/__init__.py  file: 
             from datasette.plugins import pm
from . import hookspecs

pm.add_hookspecs(hookspecs) 
             This will register your plugin hooks as part of the  datasette  plugin hook namespace. 
             Within your plugin code you can trigger the hook using this pattern: 
             from datasette.plugins import pm

for (
    plugin_return_value
) in pm.hook.name_of_your_hook_goes_here(
    datasette=datasette
):
    # Do something with plugin_return_value
    pass 
             Other plugins will then be able to register their own implementations of your hook using this syntax: 
             from datasette import hookimpl


@hookimpl
def name_of_your_hook_goes_here(datasette):
    return ""Response from this plugin hook"" 
             These plugin implementations can accept 0 or more of the named arguments that you defined in your hook specification.","[""Writing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-graphql"", ""label"": ""datasette-graphql""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-graphql/blob/main/README.md#adding-custom-fields-with-plugins"", ""label"": ""described here""}, {""href"": ""https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#specs"", ""label"": ""Pluggy specifications""}]"
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-packaging,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-packaging,Packaging a plugin,"Plugins can be packaged using Python setuptools. You can see an example of a packaged plugin at  https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos 
             The example consists of two files: a  setup.py  file that defines the plugin: 
             from setuptools import setup

VERSION = ""0.1""

setup(
    name=""datasette-plugin-demos"",
    description=""Examples of plugins for Datasette"",
    author=""Simon Willison"",
    url=""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos"",
    license=""Apache License, Version 2.0"",
    version=VERSION,
    py_modules=[""datasette_plugin_demos""],
    entry_points={
        ""datasette"": [
            ""plugin_demos = datasette_plugin_demos""
        ]
    },
    install_requires=[""datasette""],
) 
             And a Python module file,  datasette_plugin_demos.py , that implements the plugin: 
             from datasette import hookimpl
import random


@hookimpl
def prepare_jinja2_environment(env):
    env.filters[""uppercase""] = lambda u: u.upper()


@hookimpl
def prepare_connection(conn):
    conn.create_function(
        ""random_integer"", 2, random.randint
    ) 
             Having built a plugin in this way you can turn it into an installable package using the following command: 
             python3 setup.py sdist 
             This will create a  .tar.gz  file in the  dist/  directory. 
             You can then install your new plugin into a Datasette virtual environment or Docker container using  pip : 
             pip install datasette-plugin-demos-0.1.tar.gz 
             To learn how to upload your plugin to  PyPI  for use by other people, read the PyPA guide to  Packaging and distributing projects .","[""Writing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos"", ""label"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin-demos""}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/"", ""label"": ""PyPI""}, {""href"": ""https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/"", ""label"": ""Packaging and distributing projects""}]"
changelog:configuration,changelog,configuration,Configuration,"Plugin configuration now lives in the  datasette.yaml configuration file , passed to Datasette using the  -c/--config  option. Thanks, Alex Garcia. ( #2093 ) 
                         datasette -c datasette.yaml 
                         Where  datasette.yaml  contains configuration that looks like this: 
                         plugins:
  datasette-cluster-map:
    latitude_column: xlat
    longitude_column: xlon 
                         Previously plugins were configured in  metadata.yaml , which was confusing as plugin settings were unrelated to database and table metadata. 
                     
                     
                         The  -s/--setting  option can now be used to set plugin configuration as well. See  Configuration via the command-line  for details. ( #2252 ) 
                         The above YAML configuration example using  -s/--setting  looks like this: 
                         datasette mydatabase.db \
  -s plugins.datasette-cluster-map.latitude_column xlat \
  -s plugins.datasette-cluster-map.longitude_column xlon 
                     
                     
                         The new  /-/config  page shows the current instance configuration, after redacting keys that could contain sensitive data such as API keys or passwords. ( #2254 ) 
                     
                     
                         Existing Datasette installations may already have configuration set in  metadata.yaml  that should be migrated to  datasette.yaml . To avoid breaking these installations, Datasette will silently treat table configuration, plugin configuration and allow blocks in metadata as if they had been specified in configuration instead. ( #2247 ) ( #2248 ) ( #2249 ) 
                     
                 
                 Note that the  datasette publish  command has not yet been updated to accept a  datasette.yaml  configuration file. This will be addressed in  #2195  but for the moment you can include those settings in  metadata.yaml  instead.","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a8 (2024-02-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2093"", ""label"": ""#2093""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2252"", ""label"": ""#2252""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2254"", ""label"": ""#2254""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2247"", ""label"": ""#2247""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2248"", ""label"": ""#2248""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2249"", ""label"": ""#2249""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2195"", ""label"": ""#2195""}]"
cli-reference:cli-help-package-help,cli-reference,cli-help-package-help,datasette package,"Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container, see  datasette package . 
             [[[cog
help([""package"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette package [OPTIONS] FILES...

  Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container

Options:
  -t, --tag TEXT            Name for the resulting Docker container, can
                            optionally use name:tag format
  -m, --metadata FILENAME   Path to JSON/YAML file containing metadata to
                            publish
  --extra-options TEXT      Extra options to pass to datasette serve
  --branch TEXT             Install datasette from a GitHub branch e.g. main
  --template-dir DIRECTORY  Path to directory containing custom templates
  --plugins-dir DIRECTORY   Path to directory containing custom plugins
  --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY  Serve static files from this directory at /MOUNT/...
  --install TEXT            Additional packages (e.g. plugins) to install
  --spatialite              Enable SpatialLite extension
  --version-note TEXT       Additional note to show on /-/versions
  --secret TEXT             Secret used for signing secure values, such as
                            signed cookies
  -p, --port INTEGER RANGE  Port to run the server on, defaults to 8001
                            [1<=x<=65535]
  --title TEXT              Title for metadata
  --license TEXT            License label for metadata
  --license_url TEXT        License URL for metadata
  --source TEXT             Source label for metadata
  --source_url TEXT         Source URL for metadata
  --about TEXT              About label for metadata
  --about_url TEXT          About URL for metadata
  --help                    Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
cli-reference:cli-help-inspect-help,cli-reference,cli-help-inspect-help,datasette inspect,"Outputs JSON representing introspected data about one or more SQLite database files. 
             If you are opening an immutable database, you can pass this file to the  --inspect-data  option to improve Datasette's performance by allowing it to skip running row counts against the database when it first starts running: 
             datasette inspect mydatabase.db > inspect-data.json
datasette serve -i mydatabase.db --inspect-file inspect-data.json 
             This performance optimization is used automatically by some of the  datasette publish  commands. You are unlikely to need to apply this optimization manually. 
             [[[cog
help([""inspect"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette inspect [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

  Generate JSON summary of provided database files

  This can then be passed to ""datasette --inspect-file"" to speed up count
  operations against immutable database files.

Options:
  --inspect-file TEXT
  --load-extension PATH:ENTRYPOINT?
                                  Path to a SQLite extension to load, and
                                  optional entrypoint
  --help                          Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
cli-reference:cli-help-plugins-help,cli-reference,cli-help-plugins-help,datasette plugins,"Output JSON showing all currently installed plugins, their versions, whether they include static files or templates and which  Plugin hooks  they use. 
             [[[cog
help([""plugins"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette plugins [OPTIONS]

  List currently installed plugins

Options:
  --all                    Include built-in default plugins
  --requirements           Output requirements.txt of installed plugins
  --plugins-dir DIRECTORY  Path to directory containing custom plugins
  --help                   Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]] 
             Example output: 
             [
    {
        ""name"": ""datasette-geojson"",
        ""static"": false,
        ""templates"": false,
        ""version"": ""0.3.1"",
        ""hooks"": [
            ""register_output_renderer""
        ]
    },
    {
        ""name"": ""datasette-geojson-map"",
        ""static"": true,
        ""templates"": false,
        ""version"": ""0.4.0"",
        ""hooks"": [
            ""extra_body_script"",
            ""extra_css_urls"",
            ""extra_js_urls""
        ]
    },
    {
        ""name"": ""datasette-leaflet"",
        ""static"": true,
        ""templates"": false,
        ""version"": ""0.2.2"",
        ""hooks"": [
            ""extra_body_script"",
            ""extra_template_vars""
        ]
    }
]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
deploying:deploying-openrc,deploying,deploying-openrc,Running Datasette using OpenRC,"OpenRC is the service manager on non-systemd Linux distributions like  Alpine Linux  and  Gentoo . 
             Create an init script at  /etc/init.d/datasette  with the following contents: 
             #!/sbin/openrc-run

name=""datasette""
command=""datasette""
command_args=""serve -h 0.0.0.0 /path/to/db.db""
command_background=true
pidfile=""/run/${RC_SVCNAME}.pid"" 
             You then need to configure the service to run at boot and start it: 
             rc-update add datasette
rc-service datasette start","[""Deploying Datasette""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.alpinelinux.org/"", ""label"": ""Alpine Linux""}, {""href"": ""https://www.gentoo.org/"", ""label"": ""Gentoo""}]"
contributing:contributing-running-tests,contributing,contributing-running-tests,Running the tests,"Once you have done this, you can run the Datasette unit tests from inside your  datasette/  directory using  pytest  like so: 
             pytest 
             You can run the tests faster using multiple CPU cores with  pytest-xdist  like this: 
             pytest -n auto -m ""not serial"" 
             -n auto  detects the number of available cores automatically. The  -m ""not serial""  skips tests that don't work well in a parallel test environment. You can run those tests separately like so: 
             pytest -m ""serial""","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.pytest.org/"", ""label"": ""pytest""}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/pytest-xdist/"", ""label"": ""pytest-xdist""}]"
publish:cli-publish,publish,cli-publish,datasette publish,"Once you have created a SQLite database (e.g. using  csvs-to-sqlite ) you can deploy it to a hosting account using a single command. 
             You will need a hosting account with  Heroku  or  Google Cloud . Once you have created your account you will need to install and configure the  heroku  or  gcloud  command-line tools.","[""Publishing data""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite/"", ""label"": ""csvs-to-sqlite""}, {""href"": ""https://www.heroku.com/"", ""label"": ""Heroku""}, {""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/"", ""label"": ""Google Cloud""}]"
changelog:features,changelog,features,Features,"Now tested against Python 3.11. Docker containers used by  datasette publish  and  datasette package  both now use that version of Python. ( #1853 ) 
                     
                     
                         --load-extension  option now supports entrypoints. Thanks, Alex Garcia. ( #1789 ) 
                     
                     
                         Facet size can now be set per-table with the new  facet_size  table metadata option. ( #1804 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  truncate_cells_html  setting now also affects long URLs in columns. ( #1805 ) 
                     
                     
                         The non-JavaScript SQL editor textarea now increases height to fit the SQL query. ( #1786 ) 
                     
                     
                         Facets are now displayed with better line-breaks in long values. Thanks, Daniel Rech. ( #1794 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  settings.json  file used in  Configuration directory mode  is now validated on startup. ( #1816 ) 
                     
                     
                         SQL queries can now include leading SQL comments, using  /* ... */  or  -- ...  syntax. Thanks,  Charles Nepote. ( #1860 ) 
                     
                     
                         SQL query is now re-displayed when terminated with a time limit error. ( #1819 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  inspect data  mechanism is now used to speed up server startup - thanks, Forest Gregg. ( #1834 ) 
                     
                     
                         In  Configuration directory mode  databases with filenames ending in  .sqlite  or  .sqlite3  are now automatically added to the Datasette instance. ( #1646 ) 
                     
                     
                         Breadcrumb navigation display now respects the current user's permissions. ( #1831 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.63 (2022-10-27)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1853"", ""label"": ""#1853""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1789"", ""label"": ""#1789""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1804"", ""label"": ""#1804""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1805"", ""label"": ""#1805""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1786"", ""label"": ""#1786""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1794"", ""label"": ""#1794""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1816"", ""label"": ""#1816""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1860"", ""label"": ""#1860""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1819"", ""label"": ""#1819""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1834"", ""label"": ""#1834""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1646"", ""label"": ""#1646""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1831"", ""label"": ""#1831""}]"
settings:config-dir,settings,config-dir,Configuration directory mode,"Normally you configure Datasette using command-line options. For a Datasette instance with custom templates, custom plugins, a static directory and several databases this can get quite verbose: 
             datasette one.db two.db \
  --metadata=metadata.json \
  --template-dir=templates/ \
  --plugins-dir=plugins \
  --static css:css 
             As an alternative to this, you can run Datasette in  configuration directory  mode. Create a directory with the following structure: 
             # In a directory called my-app:
my-app/one.db
my-app/two.db
my-app/datasette.yaml
my-app/metadata.json
my-app/templates/index.html
my-app/plugins/my_plugin.py
my-app/static/my.css 
             Now start Datasette by providing the path to that directory: 
             datasette my-app/ 
             Datasette will detect the files in that directory and automatically configure itself using them. It will serve all  *.db  files that it finds, will load  metadata.json  if it exists, and will load the  templates ,  plugins  and  static  folders if they are present. 
             The files that can be included in this directory are as follows. All are optional. 
             
                 
                     *.db  (or  *.sqlite3  or  *.sqlite ) - SQLite database files that will be served by Datasette 
                 
                 
                     datasette.yaml  -  Configuration  for the Datasette instance 
                 
                 
                     metadata.json  -  Metadata  for those databases -  metadata.yaml  or  metadata.yml  can be used as well 
                 
                 
                     inspect-data.json  - the result of running  datasette inspect *.db --inspect-file=inspect-data.json  from the configuration directory - any database files listed here will be treated as immutable, so they should not be changed while Datasette is running 
                 
                 
                     templates/  - a directory containing  Custom templates 
                 
                 
                     plugins/  - a directory containing plugins, see  Writing one-off plugins 
                 
                 
                     static/  - a directory containing static files - these will be served from  /static/filename.txt , see  Serving static files","[""Settings""]",[]
changelog:id12,changelog,id12,Documentation,"New tutorial:  Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette . 
                     
                     
                         Screenshots in the documentation are now maintained using  shot-scraper , as described in  Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper . ( #1844 ) 
                     
                     
                         More detailed command descriptions on the  CLI reference  page. ( #1787 ) 
                     
                     
                         New documentation on  Running Datasette using OpenRC  - thanks, Adam Simpson. ( #1825 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.63 (2022-10-27)""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/clean-data"", ""label"": ""Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""shot-scraper""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/14/automating-screenshots/"", ""label"": ""Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1844"", ""label"": ""#1844""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1787"", ""label"": ""#1787""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1825"", ""label"": ""#1825""}]"
changelog:id93,changelog,id93,0.25 (2018-09-19),"New plugin hooks, improved database view support and an easier way to use more recent versions of SQLite. 
             
                 
                     New  publish_subcommand  plugin hook. A plugin can now add additional  datasette publish  publishers in addition to the default  now  and  heroku , both of which have been refactored into default plugins.  publish_subcommand documentation . Closes  #349 
                 
                 
                     New  render_cell  plugin hook. Plugins can now customize how values are displayed in the HTML tables produced by Datasette's browsable interface.  datasette-json-html  and  datasette-render-images  are two new plugins that use this hook.  render_cell documentation . Closes  #352 
                 
                 
                     New  extra_body_script  plugin hook, enabling plugins to provide additional JavaScript that should be added to the page footer.  extra_body_script documentation . 
                 
                 
                     extra_css_urls  and  extra_js_urls  hooks now take additional optional parameters, allowing them to be more selective about which pages they apply to.  Documentation . 
                 
                 
                     You can now use the  sortable_columns metadata setting  to explicitly enable sort-by-column in the interface for database views, as well as for specific tables. 
                 
                 
                     The new  fts_table  and  fts_pk  metadata settings can now be used to  explicitly configure full-text search for a table or a view , even if that table is not directly coupled to the SQLite FTS feature in the database schema itself. 
                 
                 
                     Datasette will now use  pysqlite3  in place of the standard library  sqlite3  module if it has been installed in the current environment. This makes it much easier to run Datasette against a more recent version of SQLite, including the just-released  SQLite 3.25.0  which adds window function support. More details on how to use this in  #360 
                 
                 
                     New mechanism that allows  plugin configuration options  to be set using  metadata.json .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/349"", ""label"": ""#349""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-json-html"", ""label"": ""datasette-json-html""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-images"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-images""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/352"", ""label"": ""#352""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3"", ""label"": ""pysqlite3""}, {""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_25_0.html"", ""label"": ""SQLite 3.25.0""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/360"", ""label"": ""#360""}]"
changelog:id15,changelog,id15,Plugin hooks,"New plugin hook:  handle_exception() , for custom handling of exceptions caught by Datasette. ( #1770 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  render_cell()  plugin hook is now also passed a  row  argument, representing the  sqlite3.Row  object that is being rendered. ( #1300 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  configuration directory  is now stored in  datasette.config_dir , making it available to plugins. Thanks, Chris Amico. ( #1766 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.62 (2022-08-14)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1770"", ""label"": ""#1770""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1300"", ""label"": ""#1300""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1766"", ""label"": ""#1766""}]"
changelog:plugins-and-internals,changelog,plugins-and-internals,Plugins and internals,"New plugin hook:  filters_from_request(request, database, table, datasette) , which runs on the table page and can be used to support new custom query string parameters that modify the SQL query. ( #473 ) 
                     
                     
                         Added two additional methods for writing to the database:  await db.execute_write_script(sql, block=True)  and  await db.execute_write_many(sql, params_seq, block=True) . ( #1570 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  db.execute_write()  internal method now defaults to blocking until the write operation has completed. Previously it defaulted to queuing the write and then continuing to run code while the write was in the queue. ( #1579 ) 
                     
                     
                         Database write connections now execute the  prepare_connection(conn, database, datasette)  plugin hook. ( #1564 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  Datasette()  constructor no longer requires the  files=  argument, and is now documented at  Datasette class . ( #1563 ) 
                     
                     
                         The tracing feature now traces write queries, not just read queries. ( #1568 ) 
                     
                     
                         The query string variables exposed by  request.args  will now include blank strings for arguments such as  foo  in  ?foo=&bar=1  rather than ignoring those parameters entirely. ( #1551 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.60 (2022-01-13)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/473"", ""label"": ""#473""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1570"", ""label"": ""#1570""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1579"", ""label"": ""#1579""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1564"", ""label"": ""#1564""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1563"", ""label"": ""#1563""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1568"", ""label"": ""#1568""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1551"", ""label"": ""#1551""}]"
changelog:v1-0-a6,changelog,v1-0-a6,1.0a6 (2023-09-07),"New plugin hook:  actors_from_ids(datasette, actor_ids)  and an internal method to accompany it,  await .actors_from_ids(actor_ids) . This mechanism is intended to be used by plugins that may need to display the actor who was responsible for something managed by that plugin: they can now resolve the recorded IDs of actors into the full actor objects. ( #2181 ) 
                 
                 
                     DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS  environment variable for  controlling which plugins  are loaded by Datasette. ( #2164 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette now checks if the user has permission to view a table linked to by a foreign key before turning that foreign key into a clickable link. ( #2178 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  execute-sql  permission now implies that the actor can also view the database and instance. ( #2169 ) 
                 
                 
                     Documentation describing a pattern for building plugins that themselves  define further hooks  for other plugins. ( #1765 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette is now tested against the Python 3.12 preview. ( #2175 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2181"", ""label"": ""#2181""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2164"", ""label"": ""#2164""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2178"", ""label"": ""#2178""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2169"", ""label"": ""#2169""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1765"", ""label"": ""#1765""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2175"", ""label"": ""#2175""}]"
changelog:id61,changelog,id61,Smaller changes,"New internals documentation for  Request object  and  Response class . ( #706 ) 
                     
                     
                         request.url  now respects the  force_https_urls  config setting. closes ( #781 ) 
                     
                     
                         request.args.getlist()  returns  []  if missing. Removed  request.raw_args  entirely. ( #774 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  datasette.get_database()  method. 
                     
                     
                         Added  _  prefix to many private, undocumented methods of the Datasette class. ( #576 ) 
                     
                     
                         Removed the  db.get_outbound_foreign_keys()  method which duplicated the behaviour of  db.foreign_keys_for_table() . 
                     
                     
                         New  await datasette.permission_allowed()  method. 
                     
                     
                         /-/actor  debugging endpoint for viewing the currently authenticated actor. 
                     
                     
                         New  request.cookies  property. 
                     
                     
                         /-/plugins  endpoint now shows a list of hooks implemented by each plugin, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/-/plugins?all=1 
                     
                     
                         request.post_vars()  method no longer discards empty values. 
                     
                     
                         New ""params"" canned query key for explicitly setting named parameters, see  Canned query parameters . ( #797 ) 
                     
                     
                         request.args  is now a  MultiParams  object. 
                     
                     
                         Fixed a bug with the  datasette plugins  command. ( #802 ) 
                     
                     
                         Nicer pattern for using  make_app_client()  in tests. ( #395 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  request.actor  property. 
                     
                     
                         Fixed broken CSS on nested 404 pages. ( #777 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  request.url_vars  property. ( #822 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed a bug with the  python tests/fixtures.py  command for outputting Datasette's testing fixtures database and plugins. ( #804 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette publish heroku  now deploys using Python 3.8.3. 
                     
                     
                         Added a warning that the  register_facet_classes()  hook is unstable and may change in the future. ( #830 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  {""$env"": ""ENVIRONMENT_VARIBALE""}  mechanism (see  Secret configuration values ) now works with variables inside nested lists. ( #837 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/706"", ""label"": ""#706""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/781"", ""label"": ""#781""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/774"", ""label"": ""#774""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/576"", ""label"": ""#576""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/plugins?all=1"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/-/plugins?all=1""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/797"", ""label"": ""#797""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/802"", ""label"": ""#802""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/395"", ""label"": ""#395""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/777"", ""label"": ""#777""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/822"", ""label"": ""#822""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/804"", ""label"": ""#804""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/830"", ""label"": ""#830""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/837"", ""label"": ""#837""}]"
changelog:id88,changelog,id88,0.27 (2019-01-31),"New command:  datasette plugins  ( documentation ) shows you the currently installed list of plugins. 
                 
                 
                     Datasette can now output  newline-delimited JSON  using the new  ?_shape=array&_nl=on  query string option. 
                 
                 
                     Added documentation on  The Datasette Ecosystem . 
                 
                 
                     Now using Python 3.7.2 as the base for the official  Datasette Docker image .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""http://ndjson.org/"", ""label"": ""newline-delimited JSON""}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Docker image""}]"
changelog:id123,changelog,id123,0.21 (2018-05-05),"New JSON  _shape=  options, the ability to set table  _size=  and a mechanism for searching within specific columns. 
             
                 
                     Default tests to using a longer timelimit 
                     Every now and then a test will fail in Travis CI on Python 3.5 because it hit
                        the default 20ms SQL time limit. 
                     Test fixtures now default to a 200ms time limit, and we only use the 20ms time
                        limit for the specific test that tests query interruption. This should make
                        our tests on Python 3.5 in Travis much more stable. 
                 
                 
                     Support  _search_COLUMN=text  searches, closes  #237 
                 
                 
                     Show version on  /-/plugins  page, closes  #248 
                 
                 
                     ?_size=max  option, closes  #249 
                 
                 
                     Added  /-/versions  and  /-/versions.json , closes  #244 
                     Sample output: 
                     {
  ""python"": {
    ""version"": ""3.6.3"",
    ""full"": ""3.6.3 (default, Oct  4 2017, 06:09:38) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37)]""
  },
  ""datasette"": {
    ""version"": ""0.20""
  },
  ""sqlite"": {
    ""version"": ""3.23.1"",
    ""extensions"": {
      ""json1"": null,
      ""spatialite"": ""4.3.0a""
    }
  }
} 
                 
                 
                     Renamed  ?_sql_time_limit_ms=  to  ?_timelimit , closes  #242 
                 
                 
                     New  ?_shape=array  option + tweaks to  _shape , closes  #245 
                     
                         
                             Default is now  ?_shape=arrays  (renamed from  lists ) 
                         
                         
                             New  ?_shape=array  returns an array of objects as the root object 
                         
                         
                             Changed  ?_shape=object  to return the object as the root 
                         
                         
                             Updated docs 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     FTS tables now detected by  inspect() , closes  #240 
                 
                 
                     New  ?_size=XXX  query string parameter for table view, closes  #229 
                     Also added documentation for all of the  _special  arguments. 
                     Plus deleted some duplicate logic implementing  _group_count . 
                 
                 
                     If  max_returned_rows==page_size , increment  max_returned_rows  - fixes  #230 
                 
                 
                     New  hidden: True  option for table metadata, closes  #239 
                 
                 
                     Hide  idx_*  tables if spatialite detected, closes  #228 
                 
                 
                     Added  class=rows-and-columns  to custom query results table 
                 
                 
                     Added CSS class  rows-and-columns  to main table 
                 
                 
                     label_column  option in  metadata.json  - closes  #234","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/237"", ""label"": ""#237""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/248"", ""label"": ""#248""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/249"", ""label"": ""#249""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/244"", ""label"": ""#244""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/242"", ""label"": ""#242""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/245"", ""label"": ""#245""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/240"", ""label"": ""#240""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/229"", ""label"": ""#229""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/230"", ""label"": ""#230""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/239"", ""label"": ""#239""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/228"", ""label"": ""#228""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/234"", ""label"": ""#234""}]"
changelog:write-api,changelog,write-api,Write API,"New API explorer at  /-/api  for trying out the API. ( #1871 ) 
                     
                     
                         /db/-/create  API for  Creating a table . ( #1882 ) 
                     
                     
                         /db/table/-/insert  API for  Inserting rows . ( #1851 ) 
                     
                     
                         /db/table/-/drop  API for  Dropping tables . ( #1874 ) 
                     
                     
                         /db/table/pk/-/update  API for  Updating a row . ( #1863 ) 
                     
                     
                         /db/table/pk/-/delete  API for  Deleting a row . ( #1864 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a0 (2022-11-29)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1871"", ""label"": ""#1871""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1882"", ""label"": ""#1882""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1851"", ""label"": ""#1851""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1874"", ""label"": ""#1874""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1863"", ""label"": ""#1863""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1864"", ""label"": ""#1864""}]"
changelog:v1-0-a12,changelog,v1-0-a12,1.0a12 (2024-02-29),"New  query_actions()  plugin hook, similar to  table_actions()  and  database_actions() . Can be used to add a menu of actions to the canned query or arbitrary SQL query page. ( #2283 ) 
                 
                 
                     New design for the button that opens the query, table and database actions menu. ( #2281 ) 
                 
                 
                     ""does not contain"" table filter for finding rows that do not contain a string. ( #2287 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a bug in the  makeColumnActions(columnDetails)  JavaScript plugin mechanism where the column action menu was not fully reset in between each interaction. ( #2289 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2283"", ""label"": ""#2283""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2281"", ""label"": ""#2281""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2287"", ""label"": ""#2287""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2289"", ""label"": ""#2289""}]"
changelog:plugin-hooks,changelog,plugin-hooks,Plugin hooks,"New  jinja2_environment_from_request(datasette, request, env)  plugin hook, which can be used to customize the current Jinja environment based on the incoming request. This can be used to modify the template lookup path based on the incoming request hostname, among other things. ( #2225 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  family of template slot plugin hooks :  top_homepage ,  top_database ,  top_table ,  top_row ,  top_query ,  top_canned_query . Plugins can use these to provide additional HTML to be injected at the top of the corresponding pages. ( #1191 ) 
                     
                     
                         
                             
                                 New  track_event() mechanism  for plugins to emit and receive events when certain events occur within Datasette. ( #2240 ) 
                                 
                                     
                                         
                                             Plugins can register additional event classes using  register_events(datasette) . 
                                         
                                         
                                             They can then trigger those events with the  datasette.track_event(event)  internal method. 
                                         
                                         
                                             Plugins can subscribe to notifications of events using the  track_event(datasette, event)  plugin hook. 
                                         
                                         
                                             Datasette core now emits  login ,  logout ,  create-token ,  create-table ,  drop-table ,  insert-rows ,  upsert-rows ,  update-row ,  delete-row  events,  documented here . 
                                         
                                     
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                     
                         New internal function for plugin authors:  await db.execute_isolated_fn(fn) , for creating a new SQLite connection, executing code and then closing that connection, all while preventing other code from writing to that particular database. This connection will not have the  prepare_connection()  plugin hook executed against it, allowing plugins to perform actions that might otherwise be blocked by existing connection configuration. ( #2218 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a8 (2024-02-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2225"", ""label"": ""#2225""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1191"", ""label"": ""#1191""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2240"", ""label"": ""#2240""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2218"", ""label"": ""#2218""}]"
changelog:id28,changelog,id28,0.58 (2021-07-14),"New  datasette --uds /tmp/datasette.sock  option for binding Datasette to a Unix domain socket, see  proxy documentation  ( #1388 ) 
                 
                 
                     ""searchmode"": ""raw""  table metadata option for defaulting a table to executing SQLite full-text search syntax without first escaping it, see  Advanced SQLite search queries . ( #1389 ) 
                 
                 
                     New plugin hook:  get_metadata(datasette, key, database, table) , for returning custom metadata for an instance, database or table. Thanks, Brandon Roberts! ( #1384 ) 
                 
                 
                     New plugin hook:  skip_csrf(datasette, scope) , for opting out of CSRF protection based on the incoming request. ( #1377 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  menu_links() ,  table_actions()  and  database_actions()  plugin hooks all gained a new optional  request  argument providing access to the current request. ( #1371 ) 
                 
                 
                     Major performance improvement for Datasette faceting. ( #1394 ) 
                 
                 
                     Improved documentation for  Running Datasette behind a proxy  to recommend using  ProxyPreservehost On  with Apache. ( #1387 ) 
                 
                 
                     POST  requests to endpoints that do not support that HTTP verb now return a 405 error. 
                 
                 
                     db.path  can now be provided as a  pathlib.Path  object, useful when writing unit tests for plugins. Thanks, Chris Amico. ( #1365 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1388"", ""label"": ""#1388""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1389"", ""label"": ""#1389""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1384"", ""label"": ""#1384""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1377"", ""label"": ""#1377""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1371"", ""label"": ""#1371""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1394"", ""label"": ""#1394""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1387"", ""label"": ""#1387""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1365"", ""label"": ""#1365""}]"
changelog:id66,changelog,id66,0.39 (2020-03-24),"New  base_url  configuration setting for serving up the correct links while running Datasette under a different URL prefix. ( #394 ) 
                 
                 
                     New metadata settings  ""sort""  and  ""sort_desc""  for setting the default sort order for a table. See  Setting a default sort order . ( #702 ) 
                 
                 
                     Sort direction arrow now displays by default on the primary key. This means you only have to click once (not twice) to sort in reverse order. ( #677 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  await Request(scope, receive).post_vars()  method for accessing POST form variables. ( #700 ) 
                 
                 
                     Plugin hooks  documentation now links to example uses of each plugin. ( #709 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/394"", ""label"": ""#394""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/702"", ""label"": ""#702""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/677"", ""label"": ""#677""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/700"", ""label"": ""#700""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/709"", ""label"": ""#709""}]"
changelog:signed-api-tokens,changelog,signed-api-tokens,Signed API tokens,"New  /-/create-token  page allowing authenticated users to create signed API tokens that can act on their behalf, see  API Tokens . ( #1852 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  datasette create-token  command for creating tokens from the command line:  datasette create-token . 
                     
                     
                         New  allow_signed_tokens  setting which can be used to turn off signed token support. ( #1856 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  max_signed_tokens_ttl  setting for restricting the maximum allowed duration of a signed token. ( #1858 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a0 (2022-11-29)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1852"", ""label"": ""#1852""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1856"", ""label"": ""#1856""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1858"", ""label"": ""#1858""}]"
sql_queries:canned-queries-magic-parameters,sql_queries,canned-queries-magic-parameters,Magic parameters,"Named parameters that start with an underscore are special: they can be used to automatically add values created by Datasette that are not contained in the incoming form fields or query string. 
                 These magic parameters are only supported for canned queries: to avoid security issues (such as queries that extract the user's private cookies) they are not available to SQL that is executed by the user as a custom SQL query. 
                 Available magic parameters are: 
                 
                     
                         _actor_*  - e.g.  _actor_id ,  _actor_name 
                         
                             Fields from the currently authenticated  Actors . 
                         
                     
                     
                         _header_*  - e.g.  _header_user_agent 
                         
                             Header from the incoming HTTP request. The key should be in lower case and with hyphens converted to underscores e.g.  _header_user_agent  or  _header_accept_language . 
                         
                     
                     
                         _cookie_*  - e.g.  _cookie_lang 
                         
                             The value of the incoming cookie of that name. 
                         
                     
                     
                         _now_epoch 
                         
                             The number of seconds since the Unix epoch. 
                         
                     
                     
                         _now_date_utc 
                         
                             The date in UTC, e.g.  2020-06-01 
                         
                     
                     
                         _now_datetime_utc 
                         
                             The ISO 8601 datetime in UTC, e.g.  2020-06-24T18:01:07Z 
                         
                     
                     
                         _random_chars_*  - e.g.  _random_chars_128 
                         
                             A random string of characters of the specified length. 
                         
                     
                 
                 Here's an example configuration that adds a message from the authenticated user, storing various pieces of additional metadata using magic parameters: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
databases:
  mydatabase:
    queries:
      add_message:
        allow:
          id: ""*""
        sql: |-
          INSERT INTO messages (
            user_id, message, datetime
          ) VALUES (
            :_actor_id, :message, :_now_datetime_utc
          )
        write: true
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 The form presented at  /mydatabase/add_message  will have just a field for  message  - the other parameters will be populated by the magic parameter mechanism. 
                 Additional custom magic parameters can be added by plugins using the  register_magic_parameters(datasette)  hook.","[""Running SQL queries"", ""Canned queries""]",[]
changelog:id136,changelog,id136,0.20 (2018-04-20),"Mostly new work on the  Plugins  mechanism: plugins can now bundle static assets and custom templates, and  datasette publish  has a new  --install=name-of-plugin  option. 
             
                 
                     Add col-X classes to HTML table on custom query page 
                 
                 
                     Fixed out-dated template in documentation 
                 
                 
                     Plugins can now bundle custom templates,  #224 
                 
                 
                     Added /-/metadata /-/plugins /-/inspect,  #225 
                 
                 
                     Documentation for --install option, refs  #223 
                 
                 
                     Datasette publish/package --install option,  #223 
                 
                 
                     Fix for plugins in Python 3.5,  #222 
                 
                 
                     New plugin hooks: extra_css_urls() and extra_js_urls(),  #214 
                 
                 
                     /-/static-plugins/PLUGIN_NAME/ now serves static/ from plugins 
                 
                 
                     <th> now gets class=""col-X"" - plus added col-X documentation 
                 
                 
                     Use to_css_class for table cell column classes 
                     This ensures that columns with spaces in the name will still
                        generate usable CSS class names. Refs  #209 
                 
                 
                     Add column name classes to <td>s, make PK bold [Russ Garrett] 
                 
                 
                     Don't duplicate simple primary keys in the link column [Russ Garrett] 
                     When there's a simple (single-column) primary key, it looks weird to
                        duplicate it in the link column. 
                     This change removes the second PK column and treats the link column as
                        if it were the PK column from a header/sorting perspective. 
                 
                 
                     Correct escaping for HTML display of row links [Russ Garrett] 
                 
                 
                     Longer time limit for test_paginate_compound_keys 
                     It was failing intermittently in Travis - see  #209 
                 
                 
                     Use application/octet-stream for downloadable databases 
                 
                 
                     Updated PyPI classifiers 
                 
                 
                     Updated PyPI link to pypi.org","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/224"", ""label"": ""#224""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/225"", ""label"": ""#225""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/223"", ""label"": ""#223""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/223"", ""label"": ""#223""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/222"", ""label"": ""#222""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/214"", ""label"": ""#214""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/209"", ""label"": ""#209""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/209"", ""label"": ""#209""}]"
json_api:json-api-discover-alternate,json_api,json-api-discover-alternate,Discovering the JSON for a page,"Most of the HTML pages served by Datasette provide a mechanism for discovering their JSON equivalents using the HTML  link  mechanism. 
             You can find this near the top of the source code of those pages, looking like this: 
             <link rel=""alternate""
  type=""application/json+datasette""
  href=""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/sortable.json""> 
             The JSON URL is also made available in a  Link  HTTP header for the page: 
             Link: https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/sortable.json; rel=""alternate""; type=""application/json+datasette""","[""JSON API""]",[]
changelog:id107,changelog,id107,0.23.1 (2018-06-21),"Minor bugfix release. 
             
                 
                     Correctly display empty strings in HTML table, closes  #314 
                 
                 
                     Allow ""."" in database filenames, closes  #302 
                 
                 
                     404s ending in slash redirect to remove that slash, closes  #309 
                 
                 
                     Fixed incorrect display of compound primary keys with foreign key
                        references. Closes  #319 
                 
                 
                     Docs + example of canned SQL query using || concatenation. Closes  #321 
                 
                 
                     Correctly display facets with value of 0 - closes  #318 
                 
                 
                     Default 'expand labels' to checked in CSV advanced export","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/314"", ""label"": ""#314""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/302"", ""label"": ""#302""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/309"", ""label"": ""#309""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/319"", ""label"": ""#319""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/321"", ""label"": ""#321""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/318"", ""label"": ""#318""}]"
changelog:id103,changelog,id103,0.23.2 (2018-07-07),"Minor bugfix and documentation release. 
             
                 
                     CSV export now respects  --cors , fixes  #326 
                 
                 
                     Installation instructions , including docker image - closes  #328 
                 
                 
                     Fix for row pages for tables with / in, closes  #325","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/326"", ""label"": ""#326""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/328"", ""label"": ""#328""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/325"", ""label"": ""#325""}]"
metadata:per-database-and-per-table-metadata,metadata,per-database-and-per-table-metadata,Per-database and per-table metadata,"Metadata at the top level of the file will be shown on the index page and in the
                footer on every page of the site. The license and source is expected to apply to
                all of your data. 
             You can also provide metadata at the per-database or per-table level, like this: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""database1"": {
            ""source"": ""Alternative source"",
            ""source_url"": ""http://example.com/"",
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""description_html"": ""Custom <em>table</em> description"",
                    ""license"": ""CC BY 3.0 US"",
                    ""license_url"": ""https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/""
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             Each of the top-level metadata fields can be used at the database and table level.","[""Metadata""]",[]
settings:setting-max-insert-rows,settings,setting-max-insert-rows,max_insert_rows,"Maximum rows that can be inserted at a time using the bulk insert API, see  Inserting rows . Defaults to 100. 
                 You can increase or decrease this limit like so: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_insert_rows 1000","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
settings:setting-num-sql-threads,settings,setting-num-sql-threads,num_sql_threads,"Maximum number of threads in the thread pool Datasette uses to execute SQLite queries. Defaults to 3. 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting num_sql_threads 10 
                 Setting this to 0 turns off threaded SQL queries entirely - useful for environments that do not support threading such as  Pyodide .","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]","[{""href"": ""https://pyodide.org/"", ""label"": ""Pyodide""}]"
settings:setting-max-signed-tokens-ttl,settings,setting-max-signed-tokens-ttl,max_signed_tokens_ttl,"Maximum allowed expiry time for signed API tokens created by users. 
                 Defaults to  0  which means no limit - tokens can be created that will never expire. 
                 Set this to a value in seconds to limit the maximum expiry time. For example, to set that limit to 24 hours you would use: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_signed_tokens_ttl 86400 
                 This setting is enforced when incoming tokens are processed.","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
internals:internals,internals,internals,Internals for plugins,Many  Plugin hooks  are passed objects that provide access to internal Datasette functionality. The interface to these objects should not be considered stable with the exception of methods that are documented here.,[],[]
changelog:other-small-fixes,changelog,other-small-fixes,Other small fixes,"Made several performance improvements to the database schema introspection code that runs when Datasette first starts up. ( #1555 ) 
                     
                     
                         Label columns detected for foreign keys are now case-insensitive, so  Name  or  TITLE  will be detected in the same way as  name  or  title . ( #1544 ) 
                     
                     
                         Upgraded Pluggy dependency to 1.0. ( #1575 ) 
                     
                     
                         Now using  Plausible analytics  for the Datasette documentation. 
                     
                     
                         explain query plan  is now allowed with varying amounts of whitespace in the query. ( #1588 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  CLI reference  page showing the output of  --help  for each of the  datasette  sub-commands. This lead to several small improvements to the help copy. ( #1594 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed bug where writable canned queries could not be used with custom templates.  ( #1547 ) 
                     
                     
                         Improved fix for a bug where columns with a underscore prefix could result in unnecessary hidden form fields. ( #1527 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.60 (2022-01-13)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1555"", ""label"": ""#1555""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1544"", ""label"": ""#1544""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1575"", ""label"": ""#1575""}, {""href"": ""https://plausible.io/"", ""label"": ""Plausible analytics""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1588"", ""label"": ""#1588""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1594"", ""label"": ""#1594""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1547"", ""label"": ""#1547""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1527"", ""label"": ""#1527""}]"
internals:database-execute-write-many,internals,database-execute-write-many,"await db.execute_write_many(sql, params_seq, block=True)","Like  execute_write()  but uses the  sqlite3   conn.executemany()  method. This will efficiently execute the same SQL statement against each of the parameters in the  params_seq  iterator, for example: 
                 await db.execute_write_many(
    ""insert into characters (id, name) values (?, ?)"",
    [(1, ""Melanie""), (2, ""Selma""), (2, ""Viktor"")],
) 
                 Each call to  execute_write_many()  will be executed inside a transaction.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor.executemany"", ""label"": ""conn.executemany()""}]"
internals:database-execute-write-script,internals,database-execute-write-script,"await db.execute_write_script(sql, block=True)","Like  execute_write()  but can be used to send multiple SQL statements in a single string separated by semicolons, using the  sqlite3   conn.executescript()  method. 
                 Each call to  execute_write_script()  will be executed inside a transaction.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor.executescript"", ""label"": ""conn.executescript()""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-render-cell,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-render-cell,"render_cell(row, value, column, table, database, datasette, request)","Lets you customize the display of values within table cells in the HTML table view. 
             
                 
                     row  -  sqlite.Row 
                     
                         The SQLite row object that the value being rendered is part of 
                     
                 
                 
                     value  - string, integer, float, bytes or None 
                     
                         The value that was loaded from the database 
                     
                 
                 
                     column  - string 
                     
                         The name of the column being rendered 
                     
                 
                 
                     table  - string or None 
                     
                         The name of the table - or  None  if this is a custom SQL query 
                     
                 
                 
                     database  - string 
                     
                         The name of the database 
                     
                 
                 
                     datasette  -  Datasette class 
                     
                         You can use this to access plugin configuration options via  datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) , or to execute SQL queries. 
                     
                 
                 
                     request  -  Request object 
                     
                         The current request object 
                     
                 
             
             If your hook returns  None , it will be ignored. Use this to indicate that your hook is not able to custom render this particular value. 
             If the hook returns a string, that string will be rendered in the table cell. 
             If you want to return HTML markup you can do so by returning a  jinja2.Markup  object. 
             You can also return an awaitable function which returns a value. 
             Datasette will loop through all available  render_cell  hooks and display the value returned by the first one that does not return  None . 
             Here is an example of a custom  render_cell()  plugin which looks for values that are a JSON string matching the following format: 
             {""href"": ""https://www.example.com/"", ""label"": ""Name""} 
             If the value matches that pattern, the plugin returns an HTML link element: 
             from datasette import hookimpl
import markupsafe
import json


@hookimpl
def render_cell(value):
    # Render {""href"": ""..."", ""label"": ""...""} as link
    if not isinstance(value, str):
        return None
    stripped = value.strip()
    if not (
        stripped.startswith(""{"") and stripped.endswith(""}"")
    ):
        return None
    try:
        data = json.loads(value)
    except ValueError:
        return None
    if not isinstance(data, dict):
        return None
    if set(data.keys()) != {""href"", ""label""}:
        return None
    href = data[""href""]
    if not (
        href.startswith(""/"")
        or href.startswith(""http://"")
        or href.startswith(""https://"")
    ):
        return None
    return markupsafe.Markup(
        '<a href=""{href}"">{label}</a>'.format(
            href=markupsafe.escape(data[""href""]),
            label=markupsafe.escape(data[""label""] or """")
            or ""&nbsp;"",
        )
    ) 
             Examples:  datasette-render-binary ,  datasette-render-markdown ,  datasette-json-html","[""Plugin hooks""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-render-binary"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-binary""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-render-markdown"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-markdown""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-json-html"", ""label"": ""datasette-json-html""}]"
javascript_plugins:id2,javascript_plugins,id2,JavaScript plugin objects,"JavaScript plugins are blocks of code that can be registered with Datasette using the  registerPlugin()  method on the  datasetteManager  object. 
             The  implementation  object passed to this method should include a  version  key defining the plugin version, and one or more of the following named functions providing the implementation of the plugin:","[""JavaScript plugins""]",[]
changelog:javascript-modules,changelog,javascript-modules,JavaScript modules,"JavaScript modules  were introduced in ECMAScript 2015 and provide native browser support for the  import  and  export  keywords. 
                 To use modules, JavaScript needs to be included in  <script>  tags with a  type=""module""  attribute. 
                 Datasette now has the ability to output  <script type=""module"">  in places where you may wish to take advantage of modules. The  extra_js_urls  option described in  Custom CSS and JavaScript  can now be used with modules, and module support is also available for the  extra_body_script()  plugin hook. ( #1186 ,  #1187 ) 
                 datasette-leaflet-freedraw  is the first example of a Datasette plugin that takes advantage of the new support for JavaScript modules. See  Drawing shapes on a map to query a SpatiaLite database  for more on this plugin.","[""Changelog"", ""0.54 (2021-01-25)""]","[{""href"": ""https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules"", ""label"": ""JavaScript modules""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1186"", ""label"": ""#1186""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1187"", ""label"": ""#1187""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-leaflet-freedraw"", ""label"": ""datasette-leaflet-freedraw""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jan/24/drawing-shapes-spatialite/"", ""label"": ""Drawing shapes on a map to query a SpatiaLite database""}]"
json_api:tablecreateview-example,json_api,tablecreateview-example,Creating a table from example data,"Instead of specifying  columns  directly you can instead pass a single example  row  or a list of  rows .
                    Datasette will create a table with a schema that matches those rows and insert them for you: 
                 POST /<database>/-/create
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 {
    ""table"": ""creatures"",
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""id"": 1,
            ""name"": ""Tarantula""
        },
        {
            ""id"": 2,
            ""name"": ""Kākāpō""
        }
    ],
    ""pk"": ""id""
} 
                 Doing this requires both the  create-table  and  insert-row  permissions. 
                 The  201  response here will be similar to the  columns  form, but will also include the number of rows that were inserted as  row_count : 
                 {
    ""ok"": true,
    ""database"": ""data"",
    ""table"": ""creatures"",
    ""table_url"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/data/creatures"",
    ""table_api_url"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/data/creatures.json"",
    ""schema"": ""CREATE TABLE [creatures] (\n   [id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,\n   [name] TEXT\n)"",
    ""row_count"": 2
} 
                 You can call the create endpoint multiple times for the same table provided you are specifying the table using the  rows  or  row  option. New rows will be inserted into the table each time. This means you can use this API if you are unsure if the relevant table has been created yet. 
                 If you pass a row to the create endpoint with a primary key that already exists you will get an error that looks like this: 
                 {
    ""ok"": false,
    ""errors"": [
        ""UNIQUE constraint failed: creatures.id""
    ]
} 
                 You can avoid this error by passing the same  ""ignore"": true  or  ""replace"": true  options to the create endpoint as you can to the  insert endpoint . 
                 To use the  ""replace"": true  option you will also need the  update-row  permission. 
                 Pass  ""alter"": true  to automatically add any missing columns to the existing table that are present in the rows you are submitting. This requires the  alter-table  permission.","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
internals:internals-database,internals,internals-database,Database class,"Instances of the  Database  class can be used to execute queries against attached SQLite databases, and to run introspection against their schemas.","[""Internals for plugins""]",[]
cli-reference:cli-help-install-help,cli-reference,cli-help-install-help,datasette install,"Install new Datasette plugins. This command works like  pip install  but ensures that your plugins will be installed into the same environment as Datasette. 
             This command: 
             datasette install datasette-cluster-map 
             Would install the  datasette-cluster-map  plugin. 
             [[[cog
help([""install"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette install [OPTIONS] [PACKAGES]...

  Install plugins and packages from PyPI into the same environment as Datasette

Options:
  -U, --upgrade           Upgrade packages to latest version
  -r, --requirement PATH  Install from requirements file
  -e, --editable TEXT     Install a project in editable mode from this path
  --help                  Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}]"
settings:setting-truncate-cells-html,settings,setting-truncate-cells-html,truncate_cells_html,"In the HTML table view, truncate any strings that are longer than this value.
                    The full value will still be available in CSV, JSON and on the individual row
                    HTML page. Set this to 0 to disable truncation. 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting truncate_cells_html 0","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
changelog:id18,changelog,id18,0.61 (2022-03-23),"In preparation for Datasette 1.0, this release includes two potentially backwards-incompatible changes. Hashed URL mode has been moved to a separate plugin, and the way Datasette generates URLs to databases and tables with special characters in their name such as  /  and  .  has changed. 
             Datasette also now requires Python 3.7 or higher. 
             
                 
                     URLs within Datasette now use a different encoding scheme for tables or databases that include ""special"" characters outside of the range of  a-zA-Z0-9_- . This scheme is explained here:  Tilde encoding . ( #1657 ) 
                 
                 
                     Removed hashed URL mode from Datasette. The new  datasette-hashed-urls  plugin can be used to achieve the same result, see  datasette-hashed-urls  for details. ( #1661 ) 
                 
                 
                     Databases can now have a custom path within the Datasette instance that is independent of the database name, using the  db.route  property. ( #1668 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette is now covered by a  Code of Conduct . ( #1654 ) 
                 
                 
                     Python 3.6 is no longer supported. ( #1577 ) 
                 
                 
                     Tests now run against Python 3.11-dev. ( #1621 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette.ensure_permissions(actor, permissions)  internal method for checking multiple permissions at once. ( #1675 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette.check_visibility(actor, action, resource=None)  internal method for checking if a user can see a resource that would otherwise be invisible to unauthenticated users. ( #1678 ) 
                 
                 
                     Table and row HTML pages now include a  <link rel=""alternate"" type=""application/json+datasette"" href=""..."">  element and return a  Link: URL; rel=""alternate""; type=""application/json+datasette""  HTTP header pointing to the JSON version of those pages. ( #1533 ) 
                 
                 
                     Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Link  is now added to the CORS headers, allowing remote JavaScript to access that header. 
                 
                 
                     Canned queries are now shown at the top of the database page, directly below the SQL editor. Previously they were shown at the bottom, below the list of tables. ( #1612 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette now has a default favicon. ( #1603 ) 
                 
                 
                     sqlite_stat  tables are now hidden by default. ( #1587 ) 
                 
                 
                     SpatiaLite tables  data_licenses ,  KNN  and  KNN2  are now hidden by default. ( #1601 ) 
                 
                 
                     SQL query tracing mechanism now works for queries executed in  asyncio  sub-tasks, such as those created by  asyncio.gather() . ( #1576 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette.tracer  mechanism is now documented. 
                 
                 
                     Common Datasette symbols can now be imported directly from the top-level  datasette  package, see  Import shortcuts . Those symbols are  Response ,  Forbidden ,  NotFound ,  hookimpl ,  actor_matches_allow . ( #957 ) 
                 
                 
                     /-/versions  page now returns additional details for libraries used by SpatiaLite. ( #1607 ) 
                 
                 
                     Documentation now links to the  Datasette Tutorials . 
                 
                 
                     Datasette will now also look for SpatiaLite in  /opt/homebrew  - thanks, Dan Peterson. ( #1649 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where  custom pages  did not work on Windows. Thanks, Robert Christie. ( #1545 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed error caused when a table had a column named  n . ( #1228 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1657"", ""label"": ""#1657""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1661"", ""label"": ""#1661""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1668"", ""label"": ""#1668""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"", ""label"": ""Code of Conduct""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1654"", ""label"": ""#1654""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577"", ""label"": ""#1577""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1621"", ""label"": ""#1621""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1675"", ""label"": ""#1675""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1678"", ""label"": ""#1678""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1533"", ""label"": ""#1533""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1612"", ""label"": ""#1612""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1603"", ""label"": ""#1603""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1587"", ""label"": ""#1587""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1601"", ""label"": ""#1601""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1576"", ""label"": ""#1576""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/957"", ""label"": ""#957""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1607"", ""label"": ""#1607""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials"", ""label"": ""Datasette Tutorials""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1649"", ""label"": ""#1649""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1545"", ""label"": ""#1545""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1228"", ""label"": ""#1228""}]"
internals:internals-response-asgi-send,internals,internals-response-asgi-send,Returning a response with .asgi_send(send),"In most cases you will return  Response  objects from your own view functions. You can also use a  Response  instance to respond at a lower level via ASGI, for example if you are writing code that uses the  asgi_wrapper(datasette)  hook. 
                 Create a  Response  object and then use  await response.asgi_send(send) , passing the ASGI  send  function. For example: 
                 async def require_authorization(scope, receive, send):
    response = Response.text(
        ""401 Authorization Required"",
        headers={
            ""www-authenticate"": 'Basic realm=""Datasette"", charset=""UTF-8""'
        },
        status=401,
    )
    await response.asgi_send(send)","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Response class""]",[]
changelog:id44,changelog,id44,0.51.1 (2020-10-31),Improvements to the new  Binary data  documentation page.,"[""Changelog""]",[]
plugin_hooks:plugin-register-permissions,plugin_hooks,plugin-register-permissions,register_permissions(datasette),"If your plugin needs to register additional permissions unique to that plugin -  upload-csvs  for example - you can return a list of those permissions from this hook. 
             from datasette import hookimpl, Permission


@hookimpl
def register_permissions(datasette):
    return [
        Permission(
            name=""upload-csvs"",
            abbr=None,
            description=""Upload CSV files"",
            takes_database=True,
            takes_resource=False,
            default=False,
        )
    ] 
             The fields of the  Permission  class are as follows: 
             
                 
                     name  - string 
                     
                         The name of the permission, e.g.  upload-csvs . This should be unique across all plugins that the user might have installed, so choose carefully. 
                     
                 
                 
                     abbr  - string or None 
                     
                         An abbreviation of the permission, e.g.  uc . This is optional - you can set it to  None  if you do not want to pick an abbreviation. Since this needs to be unique across all installed plugins it's best not to specify an abbreviation at all. If an abbreviation is provided it will be used when creating restricted signed API tokens. 
                     
                 
                 
                     description  - string or None 
                     
                         A human-readable description of what the permission lets you do. Should make sense as the second part of a sentence that starts ""A user with this permission can ..."". 
                     
                 
                 
                     takes_database  - boolean 
                     
                         True  if this permission can be granted on a per-database basis,  False  if it is only valid at the overall Datasette instance level. 
                     
                 
                 
                     takes_resource  - boolean 
                     
                         True  if this permission can be granted on a per-resource basis. A resource is a database table, SQL view or  canned query . 
                     
                 
                 
                     default  - boolean 
                     
                         The default value for this permission if it is not explicitly granted to a user.  True  means the permission is granted by default,  False  means it is not. 
                         This should only be  True  if you want anonymous users to be able to take this action.","[""Plugin hooks""]",[]
testing_plugins:testing-plugins-pytest-httpx,testing_plugins,testing-plugins-pytest-httpx,Testing outbound HTTP calls with pytest-httpx,"If your plugin makes outbound HTTP calls - for example datasette-auth-github or datasette-import-table - you may need to mock those HTTP requests in your tests. 
             The  pytest-httpx  package is a useful library for mocking calls. It can be tricky to use with Datasette though since it mocks all HTTPX requests, and Datasette's own testing mechanism uses HTTPX internally. 
             To avoid breaking your tests, you can return  [""localhost""]  from the  non_mocked_hosts()  fixture. 
             As an example, here's a very simple plugin which executes an HTTP response and returns the resulting content: 
             from datasette import hookimpl
from datasette.utils.asgi import Response
import httpx


@hookimpl
def register_routes():
    return [
        (r""^/-/fetch-url$"", fetch_url),
    ]


async def fetch_url(datasette, request):
    if request.method == ""GET"":
        return Response.html(
            """"""
            <form action=""/-/fetch-url"" method=""post"">
            <input type=""hidden"" name=""csrftoken"" value=""{}"">
            <input name=""url""><input type=""submit"">
        </form>"""""".format(
                request.scope[""csrftoken""]()
            )
        )
    vars = await request.post_vars()
    url = vars[""url""]
    return Response.text(httpx.get(url).text) 
             Here's a test for that plugin that mocks the HTTPX outbound request: 
             from datasette.app import Datasette
import pytest


@pytest.fixture
def non_mocked_hosts():
    # This ensures httpx-mock will not affect Datasette's own
    # httpx calls made in the tests by datasette.client:
    return [""localhost""]


async def test_outbound_http_call(httpx_mock):
    httpx_mock.add_response(
        url=""https://www.example.com/"",
        text=""Hello world"",
    )
    datasette = Datasette([], memory=True)
    response = await datasette.client.post(
        ""/-/fetch-url"",
        data={""url"": ""https://www.example.com/""},
    )
    assert response.text == ""Hello world""

    outbound_request = httpx_mock.get_request()
    assert (
        outbound_request.url == ""https://www.example.com/""
    )","[""Testing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/pytest-httpx/"", ""label"": ""pytest-httpx""}]"
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-custom-templates,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-custom-templates,Custom templates,"If your plugin has a  templates/  directory, Datasette will attempt to load templates from that directory before it uses its own default templates. 
             The priority order for template loading is: 
             
                 
                     templates from the  --template-dir  argument, if specified 
                 
                 
                     templates from the  templates/  directory in any installed plugins 
                 
                 
                     default templates that ship with Datasette 
                 
             
             See  Custom pages and templates  for more details on how to write custom templates, including which filenames to use to customize which parts of the Datasette UI. 
             Templates should be bundled for distribution using the same  package_data  mechanism in  setup.py  described for static assets above, for example: 
             package_data = (
    {
        ""datasette_plugin_name"": [
            ""templates/my_template.html"",
        ],
    },
) 
             You can also use wildcards here such as  templates/*.html . See  datasette-edit-schema  for an example of this pattern.","[""Writing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-edit-schema"", ""label"": ""datasette-edit-schema""}]"
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-static-assets,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-static-assets,Static assets,"If your plugin has a  static/  directory, Datasette will automatically configure itself to serve those static assets from the following path: 
             /-/static-plugins/NAME_OF_PLUGIN_PACKAGE/yourfile.js 
             Use the  datasette.urls.static_plugins(plugin_name, path)  method to generate URLs to that asset that take the  base_url  setting into account, see  datasette.urls . 
             To bundle the static assets for a plugin in the package that you publish to PyPI, add the following to the plugin's  setup.py : 
             package_data = (
    {
        ""datasette_plugin_name"": [
            ""static/plugin.js"",
        ],
    },
) 
             Where  datasette_plugin_name  is the name of the plugin package (note that it uses underscores, not hyphens) and  static/plugin.js  is the path within that package to the static file. 
             datasette-cluster-map  is a useful example of a plugin that includes packaged static assets in this way.","[""Writing plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}]"
performance:http-caching,performance,http-caching,HTTP caching,"If your database is immutable and guaranteed not to change, you can gain major performance improvements from Datasette by enabling HTTP caching. 
             This can work at two different levels. First, it can tell browsers to cache the results of queries and serve future requests from the browser cache. 
             More significantly, it allows you to run Datasette behind a caching proxy such as  Varnish  or use a cache provided by a hosted service such as  Fastly  or  Cloudflare . This can provide incredible speed-ups since a query only needs to be executed by Datasette the first time it is accessed - all subsequent hits can then be served by the cache. 
             Using a caching proxy in this way could enable a Datasette-backed visualization to serve thousands of hits a second while running Datasette itself on extremely inexpensive hosting. 
             Datasette's integration with HTTP caches can be enabled using a combination of configuration options and query string arguments. 
             The  default_cache_ttl  setting sets the default HTTP cache TTL for all Datasette pages. This is 5 seconds unless you change it - you can set it to 0 if you wish to disable HTTP caching entirely. 
             You can also change the cache timeout on a per-request basis using the  ?_ttl=10  query string parameter. This can be useful when you are working with the Datasette JSON API - you may decide that a specific query can be cached for a longer time, or maybe you need to set  ?_ttl=0  for some requests for example if you are running a SQL  order by random()  query.","[""Performance and caching""]","[{""href"": ""https://varnish-cache.org/"", ""label"": ""Varnish""}, {""href"": ""https://www.fastly.com/"", ""label"": ""Fastly""}, {""href"": ""https://www.cloudflare.com/"", ""label"": ""Cloudflare""}]"
full_text_search:configuring-fts-using-csvs-to-sqlite,full_text_search,configuring-fts-using-csvs-to-sqlite,Configuring FTS using csvs-to-sqlite,"If your data starts out in CSV files, you can use Datasette's companion tool  csvs-to-sqlite  to convert that file into a SQLite database and enable full-text search on specific columns. For a file called  items.csv  where you want full-text search to operate against the  name  and  description  columns you would run the following: 
                 csvs-to-sqlite items.csv items.db -f name -f description","[""Full-text search"", ""Enabling full-text search for a SQLite table""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite"", ""label"": ""csvs-to-sqlite""}]"
internals:internals-tracer-trace-child-tasks,internals,internals-tracer-trace-child-tasks,Tracing child tasks,"If your code uses a mechanism such as  asyncio.gather()  to execute code in additional tasks you may find that some of the traces are missing from the display. 
                 You can use the  trace_child_tasks()  context manager to ensure these child tasks are correctly handled. 
                 from datasette import tracer

with tracer.trace_child_tasks():
    results = await asyncio.gather(
        # ... async tasks here
    ) 
                 This example uses the  register_routes()  plugin hook to add a page at  /parallel-queries  which executes two SQL queries in parallel using  asyncio.gather()  and returns their results. 
                 from datasette import hookimpl
from datasette import tracer


@hookimpl
def register_routes():
    async def parallel_queries(datasette):
        db = datasette.get_database()
        with tracer.trace_child_tasks():
            one, two = await asyncio.gather(
                db.execute(""select 1""),
                db.execute(""select 2""),
            )
        return Response.json(
            {
                ""one"": one.single_value(),
                ""two"": two.single_value(),
            }
        )

    return [
        (r""/parallel-queries$"", parallel_queries),
    ] 
                 Note that running parallel SQL queries in this way has  been known to cause problems in the past , so treat this example with caution. 
                 Adding  ?_trace=1  will show that the trace covers both of those child tasks.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""datasette.tracer""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2189"", ""label"": ""been known to cause problems in the past""}]"
facets:id2,facets,id2,Facet by JSON array,"If your SQLite installation provides the  json1  extension (you can check using  /-/versions ) Datasette will automatically detect columns that contain JSON arrays of values and offer a faceting interface against those columns. 
             This is useful for modelling things like tags without needing to break them out into a new table. 
             Example here:  latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_facet_array=tags","[""Facets""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_facet_array=tags"", ""label"": ""latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_facet_array=tags""}]"
installation:installing-plugins,installation,installing-plugins,Installing plugins,"If you want to install plugins into your local Datasette Docker image you can do
                        so using the following recipe. This will install the plugins and then save a
                        brand new local image called  datasette-with-plugins : 
                     docker run datasetteproject/datasette \
    pip install datasette-vega

docker commit $(docker ps -lq) datasette-with-plugins 
                     You can now run the new custom image like so: 
                     docker run -p 8001:8001 -v `pwd`:/mnt \
    datasette-with-plugins \
    datasette -p 8001 -h 0.0.0.0 /mnt/fixtures.db 
                     You can confirm that the plugins are installed by visiting
                         http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/plugins 
                     Some plugins such as  datasette-ripgrep  may need additional system packages. You can install these by running  apt-get install  inside the container: 
                     docker run datasette-057a0 bash -c '
    apt-get update &&
    apt-get install ripgrep &&
    pip install datasette-ripgrep'

docker commit $(docker ps -lq) datasette-with-ripgrep","[""Installation"", ""Advanced installation options"", ""Using Docker""]","[{""href"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/plugins"", ""label"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/plugins""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-ripgrep"", ""label"": ""datasette-ripgrep""}]"
changelog:v0-29-medium-changes,changelog,v0-29-medium-changes,Easier custom templates for table rows,"If you want to customize the display of individual table rows, you can do so using a  _table.html  template include that looks something like this: 
                 {% for row in display_rows %}
    <div>
        <h2>{{ row[""title""] }}</h2>
        <p>{{ row[""description""] }}<lp>
        <p>Category: {{ row.display(""category_id"") }}</p>
    </div>
{% endfor %} 
                 This is a  backwards incompatible change . If you previously had a custom template called  _rows_and_columns.html  you need to rename it to  _table.html . 
                 See  Custom templates  for full details.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]",[]
sql_queries:sql-views,sql_queries,sql-views,Views,"If you want to bundle some pre-written SQL queries with your Datasette-hosted database you can do so in two ways. The first is to include SQL views in your database - Datasette will then list those views on your database index page. 
             The quickest way to create views is with the SQLite command-line interface: 
             sqlite3 sf-trees.db 
             SQLite version 3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:48:08
Enter "".help"" for usage hints.
sqlite> CREATE VIEW demo_view AS select qSpecies from Street_Tree_List;
<CTRL+D> 
             You can also use the  sqlite-utils  tool to  create a view : 
             sqlite-utils create-view sf-trees.db demo_view ""select qSpecies from Street_Tree_List""","[""Running SQL queries""]","[{""href"": ""https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""sqlite-utils""}, {""href"": ""https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#creating-views"", ""label"": ""create a view""}]"
json_api:json-api-cors,json_api,json-api-cors,Enabling CORS,"If you start Datasette with the  --cors  option, each JSON endpoint will be
                served with the following additional HTTP headers: 
             [[[cog
from datasette.utils import add_cors_headers
import textwrap
headers = {}
add_cors_headers(headers)
output = ""\n"".join(""{}: {}"".format(k, v) for k, v in headers.items())
cog.out(""\n::\n\n"")
cog.out(textwrap.indent(output, '    '))
cog.out(""\n\n"") 
             ]]] 
             Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, Content-Type
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Link
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600 
             [[[end]]] 
             This allows JavaScript running on any domain to make cross-origin
                requests to interact with the Datasette API. 
             If you start Datasette without the  --cors  option only JavaScript running on
                the same domain as Datasette will be able to access the API. 
             Here's how to serve  data.db  with CORS enabled: 
             datasette data.db --cors","[""JSON API""]",[]
performance:performance-hashed-urls,performance,performance-hashed-urls,datasette-hashed-urls,"If you open a database file in immutable mode using the  -i  option, you can be assured that the content of that database will not change for the lifetime of the Datasette server. 
             The  datasette-hashed-urls plugin  implements an optimization where your database is served with part of the SHA-256 hash of the database contents baked into the URL. 
             A database at  /fixtures  will instead be served at  /fixtures-aa7318b , and a year-long cache expiry header will be returned with those pages. 
             This will then be cached by both browsers and caching proxies such as Cloudflare or Fastly, providing a potentially significant performance boost. 
             To install the plugin, run the following: 
             datasette install datasette-hashed-urls 
             
                 Prior to Datasette 0.61 hashed URL mode was a core Datasette feature, enabled using the  hash_urls  setting. This implementation has now been removed in favor of the  datasette-hashed-urls  plugin. 
                 Prior to Datasette 0.28 hashed URL mode was the default behaviour for Datasette, since all database files were assumed to be immutable and unchanging. From 0.28 onwards the default has been to treat database files as mutable unless explicitly configured otherwise.","[""Performance and caching""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-hashed-urls"", ""label"": ""datasette-hashed-urls plugin""}]"
installation:id1,installation,id1,Installation,"If you just want to try Datasette out you don't need to install anything: see  Try Datasette without installing anything using Glitch 
         
         There are two main options for installing Datasette. You can install it directly on to your machine, or you can install it using Docker. 
         If you want to start making contributions to the Datasette project by installing a copy that lets you directly modify the code, take a look at our guide to  Setting up a development environment . 
         
             
                 
                     Basic installation 
                     
                         
                             Datasette Desktop for Mac 
                         
                         
                             Using Homebrew 
                         
                         
                             Using pip 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     Advanced installation options 
                     
                         
                             Using pipx 
                             
                                 
                                     Installing plugins using pipx 
                                 
                                 
                                     Upgrading packages using pipx 
                                 
                             
                         
                         
                             Using Docker 
                             
                                 
                                     Loading SpatiaLite 
                                 
                                 
                                     Installing plugins 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     A note about extensions",[],[]
publish:cli-package,publish,cli-package,datasette package,"If you have docker installed (e.g. using  Docker for Mac ) you can use the  datasette package  command to create a new Docker image in your local repository containing the datasette app bundled together with one or more SQLite databases: 
             datasette package mydatabase.db 
             Here's example output for the package command: 
             datasette package parlgov.db --extra-options=""--setting sql_time_limit_ms 2500""
Sending build context to Docker daemon  4.459MB
Step 1/7 : FROM python:3.11.0-slim-bullseye
 ---> 79e1dc9af1c1
Step 2/7 : COPY . /app
 ---> Using cache
 ---> cd4ec67de656
Step 3/7 : WORKDIR /app
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 139699e91621
Step 4/7 : RUN pip install datasette
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 340efa82bfd7
Step 5/7 : RUN datasette inspect parlgov.db --inspect-file inspect-data.json
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 5fddbe990314
Step 6/7 : EXPOSE 8001
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 8e83844b0fed
Step 7/7 : CMD datasette serve parlgov.db --port 8001 --inspect-file inspect-data.json --setting sql_time_limit_ms 2500
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 1bd380ea8af3
Successfully built 1bd380ea8af3 
             You can now run the resulting container like so: 
             docker run -p 8081:8001 1bd380ea8af3 
             This exposes port 8001 inside the container as port 8081 on your host machine, so you can access the application at  http://localhost:8081/ 
             You can customize the port that is exposed by the container using the  --port  option: 
             datasette package mydatabase.db --port 8080 
             A full list of options can be seen by running  datasette package --help : 
             See  datasette package  for the full list of options for this command.","[""Publishing data""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.docker.com/docker-mac"", ""label"": ""Docker for Mac""}]"
installation:installation-homebrew,installation,installation-homebrew,Using Homebrew,"If you have a Mac and use  Homebrew , you can install Datasette by running this command in your terminal: 
                 brew install datasette 
                 This should install the latest version. You can confirm by running: 
                 datasette --version 
                 You can upgrade to the latest Homebrew packaged version using: 
                 brew upgrade datasette 
                 Once you have installed Datasette you can install plugins using the following: 
                 datasette install datasette-vega 
                 If the latest packaged release of Datasette has not yet been made available through Homebrew, you can upgrade your Homebrew installation in-place using: 
                 datasette install -U datasette","[""Installation"", ""Basic installation""]","[{""href"": ""https://brew.sh/"", ""label"": ""Homebrew""}]"
contributing:devenvironment,contributing,devenvironment,Setting up a development environment,"If you have Python 3.8 or higher installed on your computer (on OS X the quickest way to do this  is using homebrew ) you can install an editable copy of Datasette using the following steps. 
             If you want to use GitHub to publish your changes, first  create a fork of datasette  under your own GitHub account. 
             Now clone that repository somewhere on your computer: 
             git clone git@github.com:YOURNAME/datasette 
             If you want to get started without creating your own fork, you can do this instead: 
             git clone git@github.com:simonw/datasette 
             The next step is to create a virtual environment for your project and use it to install Datasette's dependencies: 
             cd datasette
# Create a virtual environment in ./venv
python3 -m venv ./venv
# Now activate the virtual environment, so pip can install into it
source venv/bin/activate
# Install Datasette and its testing dependencies
python3 -m pip install -e '.[test]' 
             That last line does most of the work:  pip install -e  means ""install this package in a way that allows me to edit the source code in place"". The  .[test]  option means ""use the setup.py in this directory and install the optional testing dependencies as well"".","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.python-guide.org/starting/install3/osx/"", ""label"": ""is using homebrew""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/fork"", ""label"": ""create a fork of datasette""}]"
performance:performance-immutable-mode,performance,performance-immutable-mode,Immutable mode,"If you can be certain that a SQLite database file will not be changed by another process you can tell Datasette to open that file in  immutable mode . 
             Doing so will disable all locking and change detection, which can result in improved query performance. 
             This also enables further optimizations relating to HTTP caching, described below. 
             To open a file in immutable mode pass it to the datasette command using the  -i  option: 
             datasette -i data.db 
             When you open a file in immutable mode like this Datasette will also calculate and cache the row counts for each table in that database when it first starts up, further improving performance.","[""Performance and caching""]",[]
settings:setting-base-url,settings,setting-base-url,base_url,"If you are running Datasette behind a proxy, it may be useful to change the root path used for the Datasette instance. 
                 For example, if you are sending traffic from  https://www.example.com/tools/datasette/  through to a proxied Datasette instance you may wish Datasette to use  /tools/datasette/  as its root URL. 
                 You can do that like so: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting base_url /tools/datasette/","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
internals:database-hash,internals,database-hash,db.hash,"If the database was opened in immutable mode, this property returns the 64 character SHA-256 hash of the database contents as a string. Otherwise it returns  None .","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
contributing:contributing-bug-fix-branch,contributing,contributing-bug-fix-branch,Releasing bug fixes from a branch,"If it's necessary to publish a bug fix release without shipping new features that have landed on  main  a release branch can be used. 
             Create it from the relevant last tagged release like so: 
             git branch 0.52.x 0.52.4
git checkout 0.52.x 
             Next cherry-pick the commits containing the bug fixes: 
             git cherry-pick COMMIT 
             Write the release notes in the branch, and update the version number in  version.py . Then push the branch: 
             git push -u origin 0.52.x 
             Once the tests have completed, publish the release from that branch target using the GitHub  Draft a new release  form. 
             Finally, cherry-pick the commit with the release notes and version number bump across to  main : 
             git checkout main
git cherry-pick COMMIT
git push","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/new"", ""label"": ""Draft a new release""}]"
testing_plugins:testing-plugins-pdb,testing_plugins,testing-plugins-pdb,Using pdb for errors thrown inside Datasette,"If an exception occurs within Datasette itself during a test, the response returned to your plugin will have a  response.status_code  value of 500. 
             You can add  pdb=True  to the  Datasette  constructor to drop into a Python debugger session inside your test run instead of getting back a 500 response code. This is equivalent to running the  datasette  command-line tool with the  --pdb  option. 
             Here's what that looks like in a test function: 
             def test_that_opens_the_debugger_or_errors():
    ds = Datasette([db_path], pdb=True)
    response = await ds.client.get(""/"") 
             If you use this pattern you will need to run  pytest  with the  -s  option to avoid capturing stdin/stdout in order to interact with the debugger prompt.","[""Testing plugins""]",[]
changelog:new-features,changelog,new-features,New features,"If an error occurs while executing a user-provided SQL query, that query is now re-displayed in an editable form along with the error message. ( #619 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  ?_col=  and  ?_nocol=  parameters to show and hide columns in a table, plus an interface for hiding and showing columns in the column cog menu. ( #615 ) 
                     
                     
                         A new  ?_facet_size=  parameter for customizing the number of facet results returned on a table or view page. ( #1332 ) 
                     
                     
                         ?_facet_size=max  sets that to the maximum, which defaults to 1,000 and is controlled by the the  max_returned_rows  setting. If facet results are truncated the … at the bottom of the facet list now links to this parameter. ( #1337 ) 
                     
                     
                         ?_nofacet=1  option to disable all facet calculations on a page, used as a performance optimization for CSV exports and  ?_shape=array/object . ( #1349 ,  #263 ) 
                     
                     
                         ?_nocount=1  option to disable full query result counts. ( #1353 ) 
                     
                     
                         ?_trace=1  debugging option is now controlled by the new  trace_debug  setting, which is turned off by default. ( #1359 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.57 (2021-06-05)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/619"", ""label"": ""#619""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/615"", ""label"": ""#615""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1332"", ""label"": ""#1332""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1337"", ""label"": ""#1337""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1349"", ""label"": ""#1349""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/263"", ""label"": ""#263""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1353"", ""label"": ""#1353""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1359"", ""label"": ""#1359""}]"
full_text_search:full-text-search-table-or-view,full_text_search,full-text-search-table-or-view,Configuring full-text search for a table or view,"If a table has a corresponding FTS table set up using the  content=  argument to  CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE  shown below, Datasette will detect it automatically and add a search interface to the table page for that table. 
             You can also manually configure which table should be used for full-text search using query string parameters or  Metadata . You can set the associated FTS table for a specific table and you can also set one for a view - if you do that, the page for that SQL view will offer a search option. 
             Use  ?_fts_table=x  to over-ride the FTS table for a specific page. If the primary key was something other than  rowid  you can use  ?_fts_pk=col  to set that as well. This is particularly useful for views, for example: 
             https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/searchable_view?_fts_table=searchable_fts&_fts_pk=pk 
             The  fts_table  metadata property can be used to specify an associated FTS table. If the primary key column in your table which was used to populate the FTS table is something other than  rowid , you can specify the column to use with the  fts_pk  property. 
             The  ""searchmode"": ""raw""  property can be used to default the table to accepting SQLite advanced search operators, as described in  Advanced SQLite search queries . 
             Here is an example which enables full-text search (with SQLite advanced search operators) for a  display_ads  view which is defined against the  ads  table and hence needs to run FTS against the  ads_fts  table, using the  id  as the primary key: 
             [[[cog
from metadata_doc import metadata_example
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""russian-ads"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""display_ads"": {
                    ""fts_table"": ""ads_fts"",
                    ""fts_pk"": ""id"",
                    ""searchmode"": ""raw""
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Full-text search""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/searchable_view?_fts_table=searchable_fts&_fts_pk=pk"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/searchable_view?_fts_table=searchable_fts&_fts_pk=pk""}]"
plugins:plugins-installing,plugins,plugins-installing,Installing plugins,"If a plugin has been packaged for distribution using setuptools you can use the plugin by installing it alongside Datasette in the same virtual environment or Docker container. 
             You can install plugins using the  datasette install  command: 
             datasette install datasette-vega 
             You can uninstall plugins with  datasette uninstall : 
             datasette uninstall datasette-vega 
             You can upgrade plugins with  datasette install --upgrade  or  datasette install -U : 
             datasette install -U datasette-vega 
             This command can also be used to upgrade Datasette itself to the latest released version: 
             datasette install -U datasette 
             You can install multiple plugins at once by listing them as lines in a  requirements.txt  file like this: 
             datasette-vega
datasette-cluster-map 
             Then pass that file to  datasette install -r : 
             datasette install -r requirements.txt 
             The  install  and  uninstall  commands are thin wrappers around  pip install  and  pip uninstall , which ensure that they run  pip  in the same virtual environment as Datasette itself.","[""Plugins""]",[]
changelog:facet-by-date,changelog,facet-by-date,Facet by date,"If a column contains datetime values, Datasette can now facet that column by date. ( #481 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/481"", ""label"": ""#481""}]"
facets:id3,facets,id3,Facet by date,"If Datasette finds any columns that contain dates in the first 100 values, it will offer a faceting interface against the dates of those values.
                This works especially well against timestamp values such as  2019-03-01 12:44:00 . 
             Example here:  latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_facet_date=created","[""Facets""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_facet_date=created"", ""label"": ""latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_facet_date=created""}]"
changelog:the-road-to-datasette-1-0,changelog,the-road-to-datasette-1-0,The road to Datasette 1.0,"I've assembled a  milestone for Datasette 1.0 . The focus of the 1.0 release will be the following: 
                 
                     
                         Signify confidence in the quality/stability of Datasette 
                     
                     
                         Give plugin authors confidence that their plugins will work for the whole 1.x release cycle 
                     
                     
                         Provide the same confidence to developers building against Datasette JSON APIs 
                     
                 
                 If you have thoughts about what you would like to see for Datasette 1.0 you can join  the conversation on issue #519 .","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/milestone/7"", ""label"": ""milestone for Datasette 1.0""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/519"", ""label"": ""the conversation on issue #519""}]"
authentication:authentication-permissions-instance,authentication,authentication-permissions-instance,Access to an instance,"Here's how to restrict access to your entire Datasette instance to just the  ""id"": ""root""  user: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
config_example(cog, """"""
    title: My private Datasette instance
    allow:
      id: root
  """""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 To deny access to all users, you can use  ""allow"": false : 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    title: My entirely inaccessible instance
    allow: false
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 One reason to do this is if you are using a Datasette plugin - such as  datasette-permissions-sql  - to control permissions instead.","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Access permissions in ""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-permissions-sql"", ""label"": ""datasette-permissions-sql""}]"
spatialite:spatial-indexing-latitude-longitude-columns,spatialite,spatial-indexing-latitude-longitude-columns,Spatial indexing latitude/longitude columns,"Here's a recipe for taking a table with existing latitude and longitude columns, adding a SpatiaLite POINT geometry column to that table, populating the new column and then populating a spatial index: 
             import sqlite3

conn = sqlite3.connect(""museums.db"")
# Lead the spatialite extension:
conn.enable_load_extension(True)
conn.load_extension(""/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib"")
# Initialize spatial metadata for this database:
conn.execute(""select InitSpatialMetadata(1)"")
# Add a geometry column called point_geom to our museums table:
conn.execute(
    ""SELECT AddGeometryColumn('museums', 'point_geom', 4326, 'POINT', 2);""
)
# Now update that geometry column with the lat/lon points
conn.execute(
    """"""
    UPDATE museums SET
    point_geom = GeomFromText('POINT('||""longitude""||' '||""latitude""||')',4326);
""""""
)
# Now add a spatial index to that column
conn.execute(
    'select CreateSpatialIndex(""museums"", ""point_geom"");'
)
# If you don't commit your changes will not be persisted:
conn.commit()
conn.close()","[""SpatiaLite""]",[]
deploying:nginx-proxy-configuration,deploying,nginx-proxy-configuration,Nginx proxy configuration,"Here is an example of an  nginx  configuration file that will proxy traffic to Datasette: 
                 daemon off;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
  server {
    listen 80;
    location /my-datasette {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8009/my-datasette;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }
  }
} 
                 You can also use the  --uds  option to Datasette to listen on a Unix domain socket instead of a port, configuring the nginx upstream proxy like this: 
                 daemon off;
events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
  server {
    listen 80;
    location /my-datasette {
      proxy_pass http://datasette/my-datasette;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }
  }
  upstream datasette {
    server unix:/tmp/datasette.sock;
  }
} 
                 Then run Datasette with  datasette --uds /tmp/datasette.sock path/to/database.db --setting base_url /my-datasette/ .","[""Deploying Datasette"", ""Running Datasette behind a proxy""]","[{""href"": ""https://nginx.org/"", ""label"": ""nginx""}]"
changelog:miscellaneous,changelog,miscellaneous,Miscellaneous,"Got JSON data in one of your columns? Use the new  ?_json=COLNAME  argument
                            to tell Datasette to return that JSON value directly rather than encoding it
                            as a string. 
                     
                     
                         If you just want an array of the first value of each row, use the new
                             ?_shape=arrayfirst  option -  example .","[""Changelog"", ""0.23 (2018-06-18)""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.json?sql=select+neighborhood+from+facetable+order+by+pk+limit+101&_shape=arrayfirst"", ""label"": ""example""}]"
changelog:v0-28-publish-cloudrun,changelog,v0-28-publish-cloudrun,datasette publish cloudrun,"Google Cloud Run  is a brand new serverless hosting platform from Google, which allows you to build a Docker container which will run only when HTTP traffic is received and will shut down (and hence cost you nothing) the rest of the time. It's similar to Zeit's Now v1 Docker hosting platform which sadly is  no longer accepting signups  from new users. 
                 The new  datasette publish cloudrun  command was contributed by Romain Primet ( #434 ) and publishes selected databases to a new Datasette instance running on Google Cloud Run. 
                 See  Publishing to Google Cloud Run  for full documentation.","[""Changelog"", ""0.28 (2019-05-19)""]","[{""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/run/"", ""label"": ""Google Cloud Run""}, {""href"": ""https://hyperion.alpha.spectrum.chat/zeit/now/cannot-create-now-v1-deployments~d206a0d4-5835-4af5-bb5c-a17f0171fb25?m=MTU0Njk2NzgwODM3OA=="", ""label"": ""no longer accepting signups""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/434"", ""label"": ""#434""}]"
publish:publish-cloud-run,publish,publish-cloud-run,Publishing to Google Cloud Run,"Google Cloud Run  allows you to publish data in a scale-to-zero environment, so your application will start running when the first request is received and will shut down again when traffic ceases. This means you only pay for time spent serving traffic. 
                 
                     Cloud Run is a great option for inexpensively hosting small, low traffic projects - but costs can add up for projects that serve a lot of requests. 
                     Be particularly careful if your project has tables with large numbers of rows. Search engine crawlers that index a page for every row could result in a high bill. 
                     The  datasette-block-robots  plugin can be used to request search engine crawlers omit crawling your site, which can help avoid this issue. 
                 
                 You will first need to install and configure the Google Cloud CLI tools by following  these instructions . 
                 You can then publish one or more SQLite database files to Google Cloud Run using the following command: 
                 datasette publish cloudrun mydatabase.db --service=my-database 
                 A Cloud Run  service  is a single hosted application. The service name you specify will be used as part of the Cloud Run URL. If you deploy to a service name that you have used in the past your new deployment will replace the previous one. 
                 If you omit the  --service  option you will be asked to pick a service name interactively during the deploy. 
                 You may need to interact with prompts from the tool. Many of the prompts ask for values that can be  set as properties for the Google Cloud SDK  if you want to avoid the prompts. 
                 For example, the default region for the deployed instance can be set using the command: 
                 gcloud config set run/region us-central1 
                 You should replace  us-central1  with your desired  region . Alternately, you can specify the region by setting the  CLOUDSDK_RUN_REGION  environment variable. 
                 Once it has finished it will output a URL like this one: 
                 Service [my-service] revision [my-service-00001] has been deployed
and is serving traffic at https://my-service-j7hipcg4aq-uc.a.run.app 
                 Cloud Run provides a URL on the  .run.app  domain, but you can also point your own domain or subdomain at your Cloud Run service - see  mapping custom domains  in the Cloud Run documentation for details. 
                 See  datasette publish cloudrun  for the full list of options for this command.","[""Publishing data"", ""datasette publish""]","[{""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/run/"", ""label"": ""Google Cloud Run""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-block-robots"", ""label"": ""datasette-block-robots""}, {""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/sdk/"", ""label"": ""these instructions""}, {""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/properties"", ""label"": ""set as properties for the Google Cloud SDK""}, {""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/about/locations"", ""label"": ""region""}, {""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/mapping-custom-domains"", ""label"": ""mapping custom domains""}]"
getting_started:getting-started-glitch,getting_started,getting-started-glitch,Try Datasette without installing anything using Glitch,"Glitch  is a free online tool for building web apps directly from your web browser. You can use Glitch to try out Datasette without needing to install any software on your own computer. 
             Here's a demo project on Glitch which you can use as the basis for your own experiments: 
             glitch.com/~datasette-csvs 
             Glitch allows you to ""remix"" any project to create your own copy and start editing it in your browser. You can remix the  datasette-csvs  project by clicking this button: 
             
             Find a CSV file and drag it onto the Glitch file explorer panel -  datasette-csvs  will automatically convert it to a SQLite database (using  sqlite-utils ) and allow you to start exploring it using Datasette. 
             If your CSV file has a  latitude  and  longitude  column you can visualize it on a map by uncommenting the  datasette-cluster-map  line in the  requirements.txt  file using the Glitch file editor. 
             Need some data? Try this  Public Art Data  for the city of Seattle - hit ""Export"" and select ""CSV"" to download it as a CSV file. 
             For more on how this works, see  Running Datasette on Glitch .","[""Getting started""]","[{""href"": ""https://glitch.com/"", ""label"": ""Glitch""}, {""href"": ""https://glitch.com/~datasette-csvs"", ""label"": ""glitch.com/~datasette-csvs""}, {""href"": ""https://glitch.com/edit/#!/remix/datasette-csvs"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils"", ""label"": ""sqlite-utils""}, {""href"": ""https://data.seattle.gov/Community/Public-Art-Data/j7sn-tdzk"", ""label"": ""Public Art Data""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2019/Apr/23/datasette-glitch/"", ""label"": ""Running Datasette on Glitch""}]"
index:contents,index,contents,Contents,"Getting started Play with a live demo Follow a tutorial Datasette in your browser with Datasette Lite Try Datasette without installing anything using Glitch Using Datasette on your own computer Installation Basic installation Datasette Desktop for Mac Using Homebrew Using pip Advanced installation options Using pipx Using Docker A note about extensions Configuration Configuration via the command-line datasette.yaml  reference Settings Plugin configuration Permissions configuration Canned queries configuration Custom CSS and JavaScript The Datasette Ecosystem sqlite-utils Dogsheep CLI reference datasette --help datasette serve datasette --get datasette serve --help-settings datasette plugins datasette install datasette uninstall datasette publish datasette publish cloudrun datasette publish heroku datasette package datasette inspect datasette create-token Pages and API endpoints Top-level index Database Hidden tables Table Row Publishing data datasette publish Publishing to Google Cloud Run Publishing to Heroku Publishing to Vercel Publishing to Fly Custom metadata and plugins datasette package Deploying Datasette Deployment fundamentals Running Datasette using systemd Running Datasette using OpenRC Deploying using buildpacks Running Datasette behind a proxy Nginx proxy configuration Apache proxy configuration JSON API Default representation Different shapes Pagination Special JSON arguments Table arguments Column filter arguments Special table arguments Expanding foreign key references Discovering the JSON for a page Enabling CORS The JSON write API Inserting rows Upserting rows Updating a row Deleting a row Creating a table Creating a table from example data Dropping tables Running SQL queries Named parameters Views Canned queries Canned query parameters Additional canned query options Writable canned queries Magic parameters JSON API for writable canned queries Pagination Cross-database queries Authentication and permissions Actors Using the ""root"" actor Permissions How permissions are resolved Defining permissions with ""allow"" blocks The /-/allow-debug tool Access permissions in  datasette.yaml Access to an instance Access to specific databases Access to specific tables and views Access to specific canned queries Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL Other permissions in  datasette.yaml API Tokens datasette create-token Checking permissions in plugins actor_matches_allow() The permissions debug tool The ds_actor cookie Including an expiry time The /-/logout page Built-in permissions view-instance view-database view-database-download view-table view-query insert-row delete-row update-row create-table alter-table drop-table execute-sql permissions-debug debug-menu Performance and caching Immutable mode Using ""datasette inspect"" HTTP caching datasette-hashed-urls CSV export URL parameters Streaming all records Binary data Linking to binary downloads Binary plugins Facets Facets in query strings Facets in metadata Suggested facets Speeding up facets with indexes Facet by JSON array Facet by date Full-text search The table page and table view API Advanced SQLite search queries Configuring full-text search for a table or view Searches using custom SQL Enabling full-text search for a SQLite table Configuring FTS using sqlite-utils Configuring FTS using csvs-to-sqlite Configuring FTS by hand FTS versions SpatiaLite Warning Installation Installing SpatiaLite on OS X Installing SpatiaLite on Linux Spatial indexing latitude/longitude columns Making use of a spatial index Importing shapefiles into SpatiaLite Importing GeoJSON polygons using Shapely Querying polygons using within() Metadata Per-database and per-table metadata Source, license and about Column descriptions Specifying units for a column Setting a default sort order Setting a custom page size Setting which columns can be used for sorting Specifying the label column for a table Hiding tables Metadata reference Top-level metadata Database-level metadata Table-level metadata Settings Using --setting Configuration directory mode Settings default_allow_sql default_page_size sql_time_limit_ms max_returned_rows max_insert_rows num_sql_threads allow_facet default_facet_size facet_time_limit_ms facet_suggest_time_limit_ms suggest_facets allow_download allow_signed_tokens max_signed_tokens_ttl default_cache_ttl cache_size_kb allow_csv_stream max_csv_mb truncate_cells_html force_https_urls template_debug trace_debug base_url Configuring the secret Using secrets with datasette publish Introspection /-/metadata /-/versions /-/plugins /-/settings /-/config /-/databases /-/threads /-/actor /-/messages Custom pages and templates CSS classes on the <body> Serving static files Publishing static assets Custom templates Custom pages Path parameters for pages Custom headers and status codes Returning 404s Custom redirects Custom error pages Plugins Installing plugins One-off plugins using --plugins-dir Deploying plugins using datasette publish Controlling which plugins are loaded Seeing what plugins are installed Plugin configuration Secret configuration values Writing plugins Tracing plugin hooks Writing one-off plugins Starting an installable plugin using cookiecutter Packaging a plugin Static assets Custom templates Writing plugins that accept configuration Designing URLs for your plugin Building URLs within plugins Plugins that define new plugin hooks JavaScript plugins The datasette_init event datasetteManager JavaScript plugin objects makeAboveTablePanelConfigs() makeColumnActions(columnDetails) Selectors Plugin hooks prepare_connection(conn, database, datasette) prepare_jinja2_environment(env, datasette) Page extras extra_template_vars(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) extra_css_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) extra_js_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) extra_body_script(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) publish_subcommand(publish) render_cell(row, value, column, table, database, datasette, request) register_output_renderer(datasette) register_routes(datasette) register_commands(cli) register_facet_classes() register_permissions(datasette) asgi_wrapper(datasette) startup(datasette) canned_queries(datasette, database, actor) actor_from_request(datasette, request) actors_from_ids(datasette, actor_ids) jinja2_environment_from_request(datasette, request, env) filters_from_request(request, database, table, datasette) permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource) register_magic_parameters(datasette) forbidden(datasette, request, message) handle_exception(datasette, request, exception) skip_csrf(datasette, scope) get_metadata(datasette, key, database, table) menu_links(datasette, actor, request) Action hooks table_actions(datasette, actor, database, table, request) view_actions(datasette, actor, database, view, request) query_actions(datasette, actor, database, query_name, request, sql, params) row_actions(datasette, actor, request, database, table, row) database_actions(datasette, actor, database, request) homepage_actions(datasette, actor, request) Template slots top_homepage(datasette, request) top_database(datasette, request, database) top_table(datasette, request, database, table) top_row(datasette, request, database, table, row) top_query(datasette, request, database, sql) top_canned_query(datasette, request, database, query_name) Event tracking track_event(datasette, event) register_events(datasette) Testing plugins Setting up a Datasette test instance Using datasette.client in tests Using pdb for errors thrown inside Datasette Using pytest fixtures Testing outbound HTTP calls with pytest-httpx Registering a plugin for the duration of a test Internals for plugins Request object The MultiParams class Response class Returning a response with .asgi_send(send) Setting cookies with response.set_cookie() Datasette class .databases .permissions .plugin_config(plugin_name, database=None, table=None) await .render_template(template, context=None, request=None) await .actors_from_ids(actor_ids) await .permission_allowed(actor, action, resource=None, default=...) await .ensure_permissions(actor, permissions) await .check_visibility(actor, action=None, resource=None, permissions=None) .create_token(actor_id, expires_after=None, restrict_all=None, restrict_database=None, restrict_resource=None) .get_permission(name_or_abbr) .get_database(name) .get_internal_database() .add_database(db, name=None, route=None) .add_memory_database(name) .remove_database(name) await .track_event(event) .sign(value, namespace=""default"") .unsign(value, namespace=""default"") .add_message(request, message, type=datasette.INFO) .absolute_url(request, path) .setting(key) .resolve_database(request) .resolve_table(request) .resolve_row(request) datasette.client datasette.urls Database class Database(ds, path=None, is_mutable=True, is_memory=False, memory_name=None) db.hash await db.execute(sql, ...) Results await db.execute_fn(fn) await db.execute_write(sql, params=None, block=True) await db.execute_write_script(sql, block=True) await db.execute_write_many(sql, params_seq, block=True) await db.execute_write_fn(fn, block=True, transaction=True) await db.execute_isolated_fn(fn) db.close() Database introspection CSRF protection Datasette's internal database The datasette.utils module parse_metadata(content) await_me_maybe(value) derive_named_parameters(db, sql) Tilde encoding datasette.tracer Tracing child tasks Import shortcuts Events LoginEvent LogoutEvent CreateTokenEvent CreateTableEvent DropTableEvent AlterTableEvent InsertRowsEvent UpsertRowsEvent UpdateRowEvent DeleteRowEvent Contributing General guidelines Setting up a development environment Running the tests Using fixtures Debugging Code formatting Running Black blacken-docs Prettier Editing and building the documentation Running Cog Continuously deployed demo instances Release process Alpha and beta releases Releasing bug fixes from a branch Upgrading CodeMirror Changelog 1.0a13 (2024-03-12) 1.0a12 (2024-02-29) 1.0a11 (2024-02-19) 1.0a10 (2024-02-17) 1.0a9 (2024-02-16) Alter table support for create, insert, upsert and update Permissions fix for the upsert API Permission checks now consider opinions from every plugin Other changes 1.0a8 (2024-02-07) Configuration JavaScript plugins Plugin hooks Documentation Minor fixes 0.64.6 (2023-12-22) 0.64.5 (2023-10-08) 1.0a7 (2023-09-21) 0.64.4 (2023-09-21) 1.0a6 (2023-09-07) 1.0a5 (2023-08-29) 1.0a4 (2023-08-21) 1.0a3 (2023-08-09) Smaller changes 0.64.2 (2023-03-08) 0.64.1 (2023-01-11) 0.64 (2023-01-09) 0.63.3 (2022-12-17) 1.0a2 (2022-12-14) 1.0a1 (2022-12-01) 1.0a0 (2022-11-29) Signed API tokens Write API 0.63.2 (2022-11-18) 0.63.1 (2022-11-10) 0.63 (2022-10-27) Features Plugin hooks and internals Documentation 0.62 (2022-08-14) Features Plugin hooks Bug fixes Documentation 0.61.1 (2022-03-23) 0.61 (2022-03-23) 0.60.2 (2022-02-07) 0.60.1 (2022-01-20) 0.60 (2022-01-13) Plugins and internals Faceting Other small fixes 0.59.4 (2021-11-29) 0.59.3 (2021-11-20) 0.59.2 (2021-11-13) 0.59.1 (2021-10-24) 0.59 (2021-10-14) 0.58.1 (2021-07-16) 0.58 (2021-07-14) 0.57.1 (2021-06-08) 0.57 (2021-06-05) New features Bug fixes and other improvements 0.56.1 (2021-06-05) 0.56 (2021-03-28) 0.55 (2021-02-18) 0.54.1 (2021-02-02) 0.54 (2021-01-25) The _internal database Named in-memory database support JavaScript modules Code formatting with Black and Prettier Other changes 0.53 (2020-12-10) 0.52.5 (2020-12-09) 0.52.4 (2020-12-05) 0.52.3 (2020-12-03) 0.52.2 (2020-12-02) 0.52.1 (2020-11-29) 0.52 (2020-11-28) 0.51.1 (2020-10-31) 0.51 (2020-10-31) New visual design Plugins can now add links within Datasette Binary data URL building Running Datasette behind a proxy Smaller changes 0.50.2 (2020-10-09) 0.50.1 (2020-10-09) 0.50 (2020-10-09) 0.49.1 (2020-09-15) 0.49 (2020-09-14) 0.48 (2020-08-16) 0.47.3 (2020-08-15) 0.47.2 (2020-08-12) 0.47.1 (2020-08-11) 0.47 (2020-08-11) 0.46 (2020-08-09) 0.45 (2020-07-01) Magic parameters for canned queries Log out Better plugin documentation New plugin hooks Smaller changes 0.44 (2020-06-11) Authentication Permissions Writable canned queries Flash messages Signed values and secrets CSRF protection Cookie methods register_routes() plugin hooks Smaller changes The road to Datasette 1.0 0.43 (2020-05-28) 0.42 (2020-05-08) 0.41 (2020-05-06) 0.40 (2020-04-21) 0.39 (2020-03-24) 0.38 (2020-03-08) 0.37.1 (2020-03-02) 0.37 (2020-02-25) 0.36 (2020-02-21) 0.35 (2020-02-04) 0.34 (2020-01-29) 0.33 (2019-12-22) 0.32 (2019-11-14) 0.31.2 (2019-11-13) 0.31.1 (2019-11-12) 0.31 (2019-11-11) 0.30.2 (2019-11-02) 0.30.1 (2019-10-30) 0.30 (2019-10-18) 0.29.3 (2019-09-02) 0.29.2 (2019-07-13) 0.29.1 (2019-07-11) 0.29 (2019-07-07) ASGI New plugin hook: asgi_wrapper New plugin hook: extra_template_vars Secret plugin configuration options Facet by date Easier custom templates for table rows ?_through= for joins through many-to-many tables Small changes 0.28 (2019-05-19) Supporting databases that change Faceting improvements, and faceting plugins datasette publish cloudrun register_output_renderer plugins Medium changes Small changes 0.27.1 (2019-05-09) 0.27 (2019-01-31) 0.26.1 (2019-01-10) 0.26 (2019-01-02) 0.25.2 (2018-12-16) 0.25.1 (2018-11-04) 0.25 (2018-09-19) 0.24 (2018-07-23) 0.23.2 (2018-07-07) 0.23.1 (2018-06-21) 0.23 (2018-06-18) CSV export Foreign key expansions New configuration settings Control HTTP caching with ?_ttl= Improved support for SpatiaLite latest.datasette.io Miscellaneous 0.22.1 (2018-05-23) 0.22 (2018-05-20) 0.21 (2018-05-05) 0.20 (2018-04-20) 0.19 (2018-04-16) 0.18 (2018-04-14) 0.17 (2018-04-13) 0.16 (2018-04-13) 0.15 (2018-04-09) 0.14 (2017-12-09) 0.13 (2017-11-24) 0.12 (2017-11-16) 0.11 (2017-11-14) 0.10 (2017-11-14) 0.9 (2017-11-13) 0.8 (2017-11-13)","[""Datasette""]",[]
changelog:id41,changelog,id41,0.52.2 (2020-12-02),"Generated columns from SQLite 3.31.0 or higher are now correctly displayed. ( #1116 ) 
                 
                 
                     Error message if you attempt to open a SpatiaLite database now suggests using  --load-extension=spatialite  if it detects that the extension is available in a common location. ( #1115 ) 
                 
                 
                     OPTIONS  requests against the  /database  page no longer raise a 500 error. ( #1100 ) 
                 
                 
                     Databases larger than 32MB that are published to Cloud Run can now be downloaded. ( #749 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fix for misaligned cog icon on table and database pages. Thanks, Abdussamet Koçak. ( #1121 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1116"", ""label"": ""#1116""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1115"", ""label"": ""#1115""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1100"", ""label"": ""#1100""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/749"", ""label"": ""#749""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1121"", ""label"": ""#1121""}]"
changelog:v0-28-databases-that-change,changelog,v0-28-databases-that-change,Supporting databases that change,"From the beginning of the project, Datasette has been designed with read-only databases in mind. If a database is guaranteed not to change it opens up all kinds of interesting opportunities - from taking advantage of SQLite immutable mode and HTTP caching to bundling static copies of the database directly in a Docker container.  The interesting ideas in Datasette  explores this idea in detail. 
                 As my goals for the project have developed, I realized that read-only databases are no longer the right default. SQLite actually supports concurrent access very well provided only one thread attempts to write to a database at a time, and I keep encountering sensible use-cases for running Datasette on top of a database that is processing inserts and updates. 
                 So, as-of version 0.28 Datasette no longer assumes that a database file will not change. It is now safe to point Datasette at a SQLite database which is being updated by another process. 
                 Making this change was a lot of work - see tracking tickets  #418 ,  #419  and  #420 . It required new thinking around how Datasette should calculate table counts (an expensive operation against a large, changing database) and also meant reconsidering the ""content hash"" URLs Datasette has used in the past to optimize the performance of HTTP caches. 
                 Datasette can still run against immutable files and gains numerous performance benefits from doing so, but this is no longer the default behaviour. Take a look at the new  Performance and caching  documentation section for details on how to make the most of Datasette against data that you know will be staying read-only and immutable.","[""Changelog"", ""0.28 (2019-05-19)""]","[{""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/"", ""label"": ""The interesting ideas in Datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/418"", ""label"": ""#418""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/419"", ""label"": ""#419""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/420"", ""label"": ""#420""}]"
settings:setting-force-https-urls,settings,setting-force-https-urls,force_https_urls,"Forces self-referential URLs in the JSON output to always use the  https:// 
                    protocol. This is useful for cases where the application itself is hosted using
                    HTTP but is served to the outside world via a proxy that enables HTTPS. 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting force_https_urls 1","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
authentication:authentication-permissions-other,authentication,authentication-permissions-other,Other permissions in ,"For all other permissions, you can use one or more  ""permissions""  blocks in your  datasette.yaml  configuration file. 
             To grant access to the  permissions debug tool  to all signed in users, you can grant  permissions-debug  to any actor with an  id  matching the wildcard  *  by adding this a the root of your configuration: 
             [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    permissions:
      debug-menu:
        id: '*'
"""""") 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             To grant  create-table  to the user with  id  of  editor  for the  docs  database: 
             [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    databases:
      docs:
        permissions:
          create-table:
            id: editor
"""""") 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             And for  insert-row  against the  reports  table in that  docs  database: 
             [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    databases:
      docs:
        tables:
          reports:
            permissions:
              insert-row:
                id: editor
"""""") 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             The  permissions debug tool  can be useful for helping test permissions that you have configured in this way.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
deploying:apache-proxy-configuration,deploying,apache-proxy-configuration,Apache proxy configuration,"For  Apache , you can use the  ProxyPass  directive. First make sure the following lines are uncommented: 
                 LoadModule proxy_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_http.so 
                 Then add these directives to proxy traffic: 
                 ProxyPass /my-datasette/ http://127.0.0.1:8009/my-datasette/
ProxyPreserveHost On 
                 A live demo of Datasette running behind Apache using this proxy setup can be seen at  datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/ . The code for that demo can be found in the  demos/apache-proxy  directory. 
                 Using  --uds  you can use Unix domain sockets similar to the nginx example: 
                 ProxyPass /my-datasette/ unix:/tmp/datasette.sock|http://localhost/my-datasette/ 
                 The  ProxyPreserveHost On  directive ensures that the original  Host:  header from the incoming request is passed through to Datasette. Datasette needs this to correctly assemble links to other pages using the  .absolute_url(request, path)  method.","[""Deploying Datasette"", ""Running Datasette behind a proxy""]","[{""href"": ""https://httpd.apache.org/"", ""label"": ""Apache""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/"", ""label"": ""datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/tree/main/demos/apache-proxy"", ""label"": ""demos/apache-proxy""}, {""href"": ""https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypreservehost"", ""label"": ""ProxyPreserveHost On""}]"
publish:publish-fly,publish,publish-fly,Publishing to Fly,"Fly  is a  competitively priced  Docker-compatible hosting platform that supports running applications in globally distributed data centers close to your end users. You can deploy Datasette instances to Fly using the  datasette-publish-fly  plugin. 
                 pip install datasette-publish-fly
datasette publish fly mydatabase.db --app=""my-app"" 
                 Consult the  datasette-publish-fly README  for more details.","[""Publishing data"", ""datasette publish""]","[{""href"": ""https://fly.io/"", ""label"": ""Fly""}, {""href"": ""https://fly.io/docs/pricing/"", ""label"": ""competitively priced""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly"", ""label"": ""datasette-publish-fly""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly/blob/main/README.md"", ""label"": ""datasette-publish-fly README""}]"
changelog:id29,changelog,id29,0.57.1 (2021-06-08),"Fixed visual display glitch with global navigation menu. ( #1367 ) 
                 
                 
                     No longer truncates the list of table columns displayed on the  /database  page. ( #1364 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1367"", ""label"": ""#1367""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1364"", ""label"": ""#1364""}]"
changelog:id23,changelog,id23,0.59.3 (2021-11-20),"Fixed numerous bugs when running Datasette  behind a proxy  with a prefix URL path using the  base_url  setting. A live demo of this mode is now available at  datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/ . ( #1519 ,  #838 ) 
                 
                 
                     ?column__arraycontains=  and  ?column__arraynotcontains=  table parameters now also work against SQL views. ( #448 ) 
                 
                 
                     ?_facet_array=column  no longer returns incorrect counts if columns contain the same value more than once.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/"", ""label"": ""datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1519"", ""label"": ""#1519""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/838"", ""label"": ""#838""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/448"", ""label"": ""#448""}]"
changelog:id81,changelog,id81,0.29.3 (2019-09-02),"Fixed implementation of CodeMirror on database page ( #560 ) 
                 
                 
                     Documentation typo fixes - thanks, Min ho Kim ( #561 ) 
                 
                 
                     Mechanism for detecting if a table has FTS enabled now works if the table name used alternative escaping mechanisms ( #570 ) - for compatibility with  a recent change to sqlite-utils .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/560"", ""label"": ""#560""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/561"", ""label"": ""#561""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/570"", ""label"": ""#570""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/pull/57"", ""label"": ""a recent change to sqlite-utils""}]"
changelog:id83,changelog,id83,0.29.1 (2019-07-11),"Fixed bug with static mounts using relative paths which could lead to traversal exploits ( #555 ) - thanks Abdussamet Kocak! 
                 
                 
                     Datasette can now be run as a module:  python -m datasette  ( #556 ) - thanks, Abdussamet Kocak!","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/555"", ""label"": ""#555""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/556"", ""label"": ""#556""}]"
changelog:id40,changelog,id40,0.52.3 (2020-12-03),Fixed bug where static assets would 404 for Datasette installed on ARM Amazon Linux. ( #1124 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1124"", ""label"": ""#1124""}]"
changelog:id22,changelog,id22,0.59.4 (2021-11-29),"Fixed bug where columns with a leading underscore could not be removed from the interactive filters list. ( #1527 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where columns with a leading underscore were not correctly linked to by the ""Links from other tables"" interface on the row page. ( #1525 ) 
                 
                 
                     Upgraded dependencies  aiofiles ,  black  and  janus .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1527"", ""label"": ""#1527""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1525"", ""label"": ""#1525""}]"
changelog:id79,changelog,id79,0.30.1 (2019-10-30),"Fixed bug where  ?_where=  parameter was not persisted in hidden form fields ( #604 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug with .JSON representation of row pages - thanks, Chris Shaw ( #603 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/604"", ""label"": ""#604""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/603"", ""label"": ""#603""}]"
changelog:id47,changelog,id47,0.50.2 (2020-10-09),Fixed another bug introduced in 0.50 where column header links on the table page were broken. ( #1011 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1011"", ""label"": ""#1011""}]"
changelog:id54,changelog,id54,0.47.2 (2020-08-12),Fixed an issue with the Docker image  published to Docker Hub . ( #931 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": ""published to Docker Hub""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/931"", ""label"": ""#931""}]"
changelog:id50,changelog,id50,0.49.1 (2020-09-15),Fixed a bug with writable canned queries that use magic parameters but accept no non-magic arguments. ( #967 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/967"", ""label"": ""#967""}]"
changelog:id5,changelog,id5,0.64.2 (2023-03-08),"Fixed a bug with  datasette publish cloudrun  where deploys all used the same Docker image tag. This was mostly inconsequential as the service is deployed as soon as the image has been pushed to the registry, but could result in the incorrect image being deployed if two different deploys for two separate services ran at exactly the same time. ( #2036 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2036"", ""label"": ""#2036""}]"
changelog:id55,changelog,id55,0.47.1 (2020-08-11),Fixed a bug where the  sdist  distribution of Datasette was not correctly including the template files. ( #930 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/930"", ""label"": ""#930""}]"
changelog:id20,changelog,id20,0.60.1 (2022-01-20),"Fixed a bug where installation on Python 3.6 stopped working due to a change to an underlying dependency. This release can now be installed on Python 3.6, but is the last release of Datasette that will support anything less than Python 3.7. ( #1609 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1609"", ""label"": ""#1609""}]"
changelog:id17,changelog,id17,0.61.1 (2022-03-23),Fixed a bug where databases with a different route from their name (as used by the  datasette-hashed-urls plugin ) returned errors when executing custom SQL queries. ( #1682 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-hashed-urls"", ""label"": ""datasette-hashed-urls plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1682"", ""label"": ""#1682""}]"
changelog:id10,changelog,id10,0.63.1 (2022-11-10),"Fixed a bug where Datasette's table filter form would not redirect correctly when run behind a proxy using the  base_url  setting. ( #1883 ) 
                 
                 
                     SQL query is now shown wrapped in a  <textarea>  if a query exceeds a time limit. ( #1876 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed an intermittent ""Too many open files"" error while running the test suite. ( #1843 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  db.close()  internal method.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1883"", ""label"": ""#1883""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1876"", ""label"": ""#1876""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1843"", ""label"": ""#1843""}]"
changelog:id19,changelog,id19,0.60.2 (2022-02-07),Fixed a bug where Datasette would open the same file twice with two different database names if you ran  datasette file.db file.db . ( #1632 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1632"", ""label"": ""#1632""}]"
changelog:id2,changelog,id2,0.64.6 (2023-12-22),Fixed a bug where CSV export with expanded labels could fail if a foreign key reference did not correctly resolve. ( #2214 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2214"", ""label"": ""#2214""}]"
changelog:id75,changelog,id75,0.31.2 (2019-11-13),"Fixed a bug where  datasette publish heroku  applications failed to start ( #633 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fix for  datasette publish  with just  --source_url  - thanks, Stanley Zheng ( #572 ) 
                 
                 
                     Deployments to Heroku now use Python 3.8.0 ( #632 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/633"", ""label"": ""#633""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/572"", ""label"": ""#572""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/632"", ""label"": ""#632""}]"
changelog:id8,changelog,id8,0.63.3 (2022-12-17),"Fixed a bug where  datasette --root , when running in Docker, would only output the URL to sign in root when the server shut down, not when it started up. ( #1958 ) 
                 
                 
                     You no longer need to ensure  await datasette.invoke_startup()  has been called in order for Datasette to start correctly serving requests - this is now handled automatically the first time the server receives a request. This fixes a bug experienced when Datasette is served directly by an ASGI application server such as Uvicorn or Gunicorn. It also fixes a bug with the  datasette-gunicorn  plugin. ( #1955 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1958"", ""label"": ""#1958""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-gunicorn"", ""label"": ""datasette-gunicorn""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1955"", ""label"": ""#1955""}]"
changelog:id34,changelog,id34,0.54.1 (2021-02-02),Fixed a bug where  ?_search=  and  ?_sort=  parameters were incorrectly duplicated when the filter form on the table page was re-submitted. ( #1214 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1214"", ""label"": ""#1214""}]"
changelog:id48,changelog,id48,0.50.1 (2020-10-09),"Fixed a bug introduced in 0.50 where the export as JSON/CSV links on the table, row and query pages were broken. ( #1010 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1010"", ""label"": ""#1010""}]"
changelog:id9,changelog,id9,0.63.2 (2022-11-18),"Fixed a bug in  datasette publish heroku  where deployments failed due to an older version of Python being requested. ( #1905 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette publish heroku --generate-dir <dir>  option for generating a Heroku deployment directory without deploying it.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1905"", ""label"": ""#1905""}]"
changelog:id209,changelog,id209,0.10 (2017-11-14),"Fixed  #83  - 500 error on individual row pages. 
                 
                 
                     Stop using sqlite WITH RECURSIVE in our tests. 
                     The version of Python 3 running in Travis CI doesn't support this.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/83"", ""label"": ""#83""}]"
changelog:id38,changelog,id38,0.52.5 (2020-12-09),Fix for error caused by combining the  _searchmode=raw  and  ?_search_COLUMN  parameters. ( #1134 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1134"", ""label"": ""#1134""}]"
changelog:id27,changelog,id27,0.58.1 (2021-07-16),Fix for an intermittent race condition caused by the  refresh_schemas()  internal function. ( #1231 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1231"", ""label"": ""#1231""}]"
changelog:id4,changelog,id4,0.64.4 (2023-09-21),Fix for a crashing bug caused by viewing the table page for a named in-memory database. ( #2189 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2189"", ""label"": ""#2189""}]"
changelog:v1-0-a7,changelog,v1-0-a7,1.0a7 (2023-09-21),Fix for a crashing bug caused by viewing the table page for a named in-memory database. ( #2189 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2189"", ""label"": ""#2189""}]"
changelog:id25,changelog,id25,0.59.1 (2021-10-24),"Fix compatibility with Python 3.10. ( #1482 ) 
                 
                 
                     Documentation on how to use  Named parameters  with integer and floating point values. ( #1496 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1482"", ""label"": ""#1482""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1496"", ""label"": ""#1496""}]"
getting_started:getting-started-your-computer,getting_started,getting-started-your-computer,Using Datasette on your own computer,"First, follow the  Installation  instructions. Now you can run Datasette against a SQLite file on your computer using the following command: 
             datasette path/to/database.db 
             This will start a web server on port 8001 - visit  http://localhost:8001/ 
                to access the web interface. 
             Add  -o  to open your browser automatically once Datasette has started: 
             datasette path/to/database.db -o 
             Use Chrome on OS X? You can run datasette against your browser history
                like so: 
             datasette ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History --nolock 
             The  --nolock  option ignores any file locks. This is safe as Datasette will open the file in read-only mode. 
             Now visiting  http://localhost:8001/History/downloads  will show you a web
                interface to browse your downloads data: 
             
                 
             
             http://localhost:8001/History/downloads.json  will return that data as
                JSON: 
             {
    ""database"": ""History"",
    ""columns"": [
        ""id"",
        ""current_path"",
        ""target_path"",
        ""start_time"",
        ""received_bytes"",
        ""total_bytes"",
        ...
    ],
    ""rows"": [
        [
            1,
            ""/Users/simonw/Downloads/DropboxInstaller.dmg"",
            ""/Users/simonw/Downloads/DropboxInstaller.dmg"",
            13097290269022132,
            626688,
            0,
            ...
        ]
    ]
} 
             http://localhost:8001/History/downloads.json?_shape=objects  will return that data as
                JSON in a more convenient format: 
             {
    ...
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""start_time"": 13097290269022132,
            ""interrupt_reason"": 0,
            ""hash"": """",
            ""id"": 1,
            ""site_url"": """",
            ""referrer"": ""https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?src=index"",
            ...
        }
    ]
}","[""Getting started""]","[{""href"": ""http://localhost:8001/"", ""label"": ""http://localhost:8001/""}, {""href"": ""http://localhost:8001/History/downloads"", ""label"": ""http://localhost:8001/History/downloads""}, {""href"": ""http://localhost:8001/History/downloads.json"", ""label"": ""http://localhost:8001/History/downloads.json""}, {""href"": ""http://localhost:8001/History/downloads.json?_shape=objects"", ""label"": ""http://localhost:8001/History/downloads.json?_shape=objects""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-extra-template-vars,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-extra-template-vars,"extra_template_vars(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)","Extra template variables that should be made available in the rendered template context. 
                 
                     
                         template  - string 
                         
                             The template that is being rendered, e.g.  database.html 
                         
                     
                     
                         database  - string or None 
                         
                             The name of the database, or  None  if the page does not correspond to a database (e.g. the root page) 
                         
                     
                     
                         table  - string or None 
                         
                             The name of the table, or  None  if the page does not correct to a table 
                         
                     
                     
                         columns  - list of strings or None 
                         
                             The names of the database columns that will be displayed on this page.  None  if the page does not contain a table. 
                         
                     
                     
                         view_name  - string 
                         
                             The name of the view being displayed. ( index ,  database ,  table , and  row  are the most important ones.) 
                         
                     
                     
                         request  -  Request object  or None 
                         
                             The current HTTP request. This can be  None  if the request object is not available. 
                         
                     
                     
                         datasette  -  Datasette class 
                         
                             You can use this to access plugin configuration options via  datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) 
                         
                     
                 
                 This hook can return one of three different types: 
                 
                     
                         Dictionary 
                         
                             If you return a dictionary its keys and values will be merged into the template context. 
                         
                     
                     
                         Function that returns a dictionary 
                         
                             If you return a function it will be executed. If it returns a dictionary those values will will be merged into the template context. 
                         
                     
                     
                         Function that returns an awaitable function that returns a dictionary 
                         
                             You can also return a function which returns an awaitable function which returns a dictionary. 
                         
                     
                 
                 Datasette runs Jinja2 in  async mode , which means you can add awaitable functions to the template scope and they will be automatically awaited when they are rendered by the template. 
                 Here's an example plugin that adds a  ""user_agent""  variable to the template context containing the current request's User-Agent header: 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_template_vars(request):
    return {""user_agent"": request.headers.get(""user-agent"")} 
                 This example returns an awaitable function which adds a list of  hidden_table_names  to the context: 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_template_vars(datasette, database):
    async def hidden_table_names():
        if database:
            db = datasette.databases[database]
            return {
                ""hidden_table_names"": await db.hidden_table_names()
            }
        else:
            return {}

    return hidden_table_names 
                 And here's an example which adds a  sql_first(sql_query)  function which executes a SQL statement and returns the first column of the first row of results: 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_template_vars(datasette, database):
    async def sql_first(sql, dbname=None):
        dbname = (
            dbname
            or database
            or next(iter(datasette.databases.keys()))
        )
        result = await datasette.execute(dbname, sql)
        return result.rows[0][0]

    return {""sql_first"": sql_first} 
                 You can then use the new function in a template like so: 
                 SQLite version: {{ sql_first(""select sqlite_version()"") }} 
                 Examples:  datasette-search-all ,  datasette-template-sql","[""Plugin hooks"", ""Page extras""]","[{""href"": ""https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.10.x/api/#async-support"", ""label"": ""async mode""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-search-all"", ""label"": ""datasette-search-all""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-template-sql"", ""label"": ""datasette-template-sql""}]"
plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-extra-body-script,plugin_hooks,plugin-hook-extra-body-script,"extra_body_script(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)","Extra JavaScript to be added to a  <script>  block at the end of the  <body>  element on the page. 
                 This takes the same arguments as  extra_template_vars(...) 
                 The  template ,  database ,  table  and  view_name  options can be used to return different code depending on which template is being rendered and which database or table are being processed. 
                 The  datasette  instance is provided primarily so that you can consult any plugin configuration options that may have been set, using the  datasette.plugin_config(plugin_name)  method documented above. 
                 This function can return a string containing JavaScript, or a dictionary as described below, or a function or awaitable function that returns a string or dictionary. 
                 Use a dictionary if you want to specify that the code should be placed in a  <script type=""module"">...</script>  element: 
                 @hookimpl
def extra_body_script():
    return {
        ""module"": True,
        ""script"": ""console.log('Your JavaScript goes here...')"",
    } 
                 This will add the following to the end of your page: 
                 <script type=""module"">console.log('Your JavaScript goes here...')</script> 
                 Example:  datasette-cluster-map","[""Plugin hooks"", ""Page extras""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}]"
internals:database-execute-fn,internals,database-execute-fn,await db.execute_fn(fn),"Executes a given callback function against a read-only database connection running in a thread. The function will be passed a SQLite connection, and the return value from the function will be returned by the  await . 
                 Example usage: 
                 def get_version(conn):
    return conn.execute(
        ""select sqlite_version()""
    ).fetchall()[0][0]


version = await db.execute_fn(get_version)","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
internals:database-execute,internals,database-execute,"await db.execute(sql, ...)","Executes a SQL query against the database and returns the resulting rows (see  Results ). 
                 
                     
                         sql  - string (required) 
                         
                             The SQL query to execute. This can include  ?  or  :named  parameters. 
                         
                     
                     
                         params  - list or dict 
                         
                             A list or dictionary of values to use for the parameters. List for  ? , dictionary for  :named . 
                         
                     
                     
                         truncate  - boolean 
                         
                             Should the rows returned by the query be truncated at the maximum page size? Defaults to  True , set this to  False  to disable truncation. 
                         
                     
                     
                         custom_time_limit  - integer ms 
                         
                             A custom time limit for this query. This can be set to a lower value than the Datasette configured default. If a query takes longer than this it will be terminated early and raise a  dataette.database.QueryInterrupted  exception. 
                         
                     
                     
                         page_size  - integer 
                         
                             Set a custom page size for truncation, over-riding the configured Datasette default. 
                         
                     
                     
                         log_sql_errors  - boolean 
                         
                             Should any SQL errors be logged to the console in addition to being raised as an error? Defaults to  True .","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
changelog:id16,changelog,id16,Documentation,"Examples in the documentation now include a copy-to-clipboard button. ( #1748 ) 
                     
                     
                         Documentation now uses the  Furo  Sphinx theme. ( #1746 ) 
                     
                     
                         Code examples in the documentation are now all formatted using Black. ( #1718 ) 
                     
                     
                         Request.fake()  method is now documented, see  Request object . 
                     
                     
                         New documentation for plugin authors:  Registering a plugin for the duration of a test . ( #903 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.62 (2022-08-14)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1748"", ""label"": ""#1748""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo"", ""label"": ""Furo""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1746"", ""label"": ""#1746""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1718"", ""label"": ""#1718""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/903"", ""label"": ""#903""}]"
pages:rowview,pages,rowview,Row,"Every row in every Datasette table has its own URL. This means individual records can be linked to directly. 
             Table cells with extremely long text contents are truncated on the table view according to the  truncate_cells_html  setting. If a cell has been truncated the full length version of that cell will be available on the row page. 
             Rows which are the targets of foreign key references from other tables will show a link to a filtered search for all records that reference that row. Here's an example from the Registers of Members Interests database: 
             ../people/uk~2Eorg~2Epublicwhip~2Fperson~2F10001 
             Note that this URL includes the encoded primary key of the record. 
             Here's that same page as JSON: 
             ../people/uk~2Eorg~2Epublicwhip~2Fperson~2F10001.json","[""Pages and API endpoints""]","[{""href"": ""https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/regmem/people/uk~2Eorg~2Epublicwhip~2Fperson~2F10001"", ""label"": ""../people/uk~2Eorg~2Epublicwhip~2Fperson~2F10001""}, {""href"": ""https://register-of-members-interests.datasettes.com/regmem/people/uk~2Eorg~2Epublicwhip~2Fperson~2F10001.json"", ""label"": ""../people/uk~2Eorg~2Epublicwhip~2Fperson~2F10001.json""}]"
custom_templates:css-classes-on-the-body,custom_templates,css-classes-on-the-body,CSS classes on the <body>,"Every default template includes CSS classes in the body designed to support
                custom styling. 
             The index template (the top level page at  / ) gets this: 
             <body class=""index""> 
             The database template ( /dbname ) gets this: 
             <body class=""db db-dbname""> 
             The custom SQL template ( /dbname?sql=... ) gets this: 
             <body class=""query db-dbname""> 
             A canned query template ( /dbname/queryname ) gets this: 
             <body class=""query db-dbname query-queryname""> 
             The table template ( /dbname/tablename ) gets: 
             <body class=""table db-dbname table-tablename""> 
             The row template ( /dbname/tablename/rowid ) gets: 
             <body class=""row db-dbname table-tablename""> 
             The  db-x  and  table-x  classes use the database or table names themselves if
                they are valid CSS identifiers. If they aren't, we strip any invalid
                characters out and append a 6 character md5 digest of the original name, in
                order to ensure that multiple tables which resolve to the same stripped
                character version still have different CSS classes. 
             Some examples: 
             ""simple"" => ""simple""
""MixedCase"" => ""MixedCase""
""-no-leading-hyphens"" => ""no-leading-hyphens-65bea6""
""_no-leading-underscores"" => ""no-leading-underscores-b921bc""
""no spaces"" => ""no-spaces-7088d7""
""-"" => ""336d5e""
""no $ characters"" => ""no--characters-59e024"" 
             <td>  and  <th>  elements also get custom CSS classes reflecting the
                database column they are representing, for example: 
             <table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th class=""col-id"" scope=""col"">id</th>
            <th class=""col-name"" scope=""col"">name</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class=""col-id""><a href=""..."">1</a></td>
            <td class=""col-name"">SMITH</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>","[""Custom pages and templates""]",[]
changelog:latest-datasette-io,changelog,latest-datasette-io,latest.datasette.io,"Every commit to Datasette master is now automatically deployed by Travis CI to
                     https://latest.datasette.io/  - ensuring there is always a live demo of the
                    latest version of the software. 
                 The demo uses  the fixtures  from our
                    unit tests, ensuring it demonstrates the same range of functionality that is
                    covered by the tests. 
                 You can see how the deployment mechanism works in our  .travis.yml  file.","[""Changelog"", ""0.23 (2018-06-18)""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/master/tests/fixtures.py"", ""label"": ""the fixtures""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/master/.travis.yml"", ""label"": "".travis.yml""}]"
json_api:json-api-special,json_api,json-api-special,Special JSON arguments,"Every Datasette endpoint that can return JSON also accepts the following
                query string arguments: 
             
                 
                     ?_shape=SHAPE 
                     
                         The shape of the JSON to return, documented above. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_nl=on 
                     
                         When used with  ?_shape=array  produces newline-delimited JSON objects. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_json=COLUMN1&_json=COLUMN2 
                     
                         If any of your SQLite columns contain JSON values, you can use one or more
                             _json=  parameters to request that those columns be returned as regular
                            JSON. Without this argument those columns will be returned as JSON objects
                            that have been double-encoded into a JSON string value. 
                         Compare  this query without the argument  to  this query using the argument 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_json_infinity=on 
                     
                         If your data contains infinity or -infinity values, Datasette will replace
                            them with None when returning them as JSON. If you pass  _json_infinity=1 
                            Datasette will instead return them as  Infinity  or  -Infinity  which is
                            invalid JSON but can be processed by some custom JSON parsers. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_timelimit=MS 
                     
                         Sets a custom time limit for the query in ms. You can use this for optimistic
                            queries where you would like Datasette to give up if the query takes too
                            long, for example if you want to implement autocomplete search but only if
                            it can be executed in less than 10ms. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_ttl=SECONDS 
                     
                         For how many seconds should this response be cached by HTTP proxies? Use
                             ?_ttl=0  to disable HTTP caching entirely for this request. 
                     
                 
                 
                     ?_trace=1 
                     
                         Turns on tracing for this page: SQL queries executed during the request will
                            be gathered and included in the response, either in a new  ""_traces""  key
                            for JSON responses or at the bottom of the page if the response is in HTML. 
                         The structure of the data returned here should be considered highly unstable
                            and very likely to change. 
                         Only available if the  trace_debug  setting is enabled.","[""JSON API""]","[{""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json?sql=select+%27{%22this+is%22%3A+%22a+json+object%22}%27+as+d&_shape=array"", ""label"": ""this query without the argument""}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json?sql=select+%27{%22this+is%22%3A+%22a+json+object%22}%27+as+d&_shape=array&_json=d"", ""label"": ""this query using the argument""}]"
settings:setting-allow-csv-stream,settings,setting-allow-csv-stream,allow_csv_stream,"Enables  the CSV export feature  where an entire table
                    (potentially hundreds of thousands of rows) can be exported as a single CSV
                    file. This is turned on by default - you can turn it off like this: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_csv_stream off","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
changelog:v1-0-a13,changelog,v1-0-a13,1.0a13 (2024-03-12),"Each of the key concepts in Datasette now has an  actions menu , which plugins can use to add additional functionality targeting that entity. 
             
                 
                     Plugin hook:  view_actions()  for actions that can be applied to a SQL view. ( #2297 ) 
                 
                 
                     Plugin hook:  homepage_actions()  for actions that apply to the instance homepage. ( #2298 ) 
                 
                 
                     Plugin hook:  row_actions()  for actions that apply to the row page. ( #2299 ) 
                 
                 
                     Action menu items for all of the  *_actions()  plugin hooks can now return an optional  ""description""  key, which will be displayed in the menu below the action label. ( #2294 ) 
                 
                 
                     Plugin hooks  documentation page is now organized with additional headings. ( #2300 ) 
                 
                 
                     Improved the display of action buttons on pages that also display metadata. ( #2286 ) 
                 
                 
                     The header and footer of the page now uses a subtle gradient effect, and options in the navigation menu are better visually defined. ( #2302 ) 
                 
                 
                     Table names that start with an underscore now default to hidden. ( #2104 ) 
                 
                 
                     pragma_table_list  has been added to the allow-list of SQLite pragma functions supported by Datasette.  select * from pragma_table_list()  is no longer blocked. ( #2104 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2297"", ""label"": ""#2297""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2298"", ""label"": ""#2298""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2299"", ""label"": ""#2299""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2294"", ""label"": ""#2294""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2300"", ""label"": ""#2300""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2286"", ""label"": ""#2286""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2302"", ""label"": ""#2302""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2104"", ""label"": ""#2104""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2104#issuecomment-1982352475"", ""label"": ""#2104""}]"
pages:databaseview,pages,databaseview,Database,"Each database has a page listing the tables, views and canned queries available for that database. If the  execute-sql  permission is enabled (it's on by default) there will also be an interface for executing arbitrary SQL select queries against the data. 
             Examples: 
             
                 
                     fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight 
                 
                 
                     global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants 
                 
             
             The JSON version of this page provides programmatic access to the underlying data: 
             
                 
                     fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json 
                 
                 
                     global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants.json","[""Pages and API endpoints""]","[{""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight"", ""label"": ""fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight""}, {""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants"", ""label"": ""global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants""}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json"", ""label"": ""fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight.json""}, {""href"": ""https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants.json"", ""label"": ""global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants.json""}]"
changelog:id3,changelog,id3,0.64.5 (2023-10-08),"Dropped dependency on  click-default-group-wheel , which could cause a dependency conflict. ( #2197 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2197"", ""label"": ""#2197""}]"
changelog:bug-fixes,changelog,bug-fixes,Bug fixes,"Don't show the facet option in the cog menu if faceting is not allowed. ( #1683 ) 
                     
                     
                         ?_sort  and  ?_sort_desc  now work if the column that is being sorted has been excluded from the query using  ?_col=  or  ?_nocol= . ( #1773 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed bug where  ?_sort_desc  was duplicated in the URL every time the Apply button was clicked. ( #1738 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.62 (2022-08-14)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1683"", ""label"": ""#1683""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1773"", ""label"": ""#1773""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1738"", ""label"": ""#1738""}]"
changelog:id68,changelog,id68,0.37.1 (2020-03-02),"Don't attempt to count table rows to display on the index page for databases > 100MB. ( #688 ) 
                 
                 
                     Print exceptions if they occur in the write thread rather than silently swallowing them. 
                 
                 
                     Handle the possibility of  scope[""path""]  being a string rather than bytes 
                 
                 
                     Better documentation for the  extra_template_vars(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)  plugin hook.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/688"", ""label"": ""#688""}]"
ecosystem:dogsheep,ecosystem,dogsheep,Dogsheep,Dogsheep  is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette. The project provides tools like  github-to-sqlite  and  twitter-to-sqlite  that can import data from different sources in order to create a personal data warehouse.  Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data  is a talk that explains Dogsheep and demonstrates it in action.,"[""The Datasette Ecosystem""]","[{""href"": ""https://dogsheep.github.io/"", ""label"": ""Dogsheep""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tools/github-to-sqlite"", ""label"": ""github-to-sqlite""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tools/twitter-to-sqlite"", ""label"": ""twitter-to-sqlite""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/"", ""label"": ""Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data""}]"
changelog:id42,changelog,id42,0.52.1 (2020-11-29),"Documentation on  Testing plugins  now recommends using  datasette.client . ( #1102 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fix bug where compound foreign keys produced broken links. ( #1098 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette --load-module=spatialite  now also checks for  /usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.so . Thanks, Dan Peterson. ( #1114 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1102"", ""label"": ""#1102""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1098"", ""label"": ""#1098""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1114"", ""label"": ""#1114""}]"
changelog:id6,changelog,id6,0.64.1 (2023-01-11),"Documentation now links to a current source of information for installing Python 3. ( #1987 ) 
                 
                 
                     Incorrectly calling the Datasette constructor using  Datasette(""path/to/data.db"")  instead of  Datasette([""path/to/data.db""])  now returns a useful error message. ( #1985 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1987"", ""label"": ""#1987""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1985"", ""label"": ""#1985""}]"
changelog:id32,changelog,id32,0.56 (2021-03-28),"Documentation improvements, bug fixes and support for SpatiaLite 5. 
             
                 
                     The SQL editor can now be resized by dragging a handle. ( #1236 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a bug with JSON faceting and the  __arraycontains  filter caused by tables with spaces in their names. ( #1239 ) 
                 
                 
                     Upgraded  httpx  dependency. ( #1005 ) 
                 
                 
                     JSON faceting is now suggested even if a column contains blank strings. ( #1246 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  datasette.add_memory_database()  method. ( #1247 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  Response.asgi_send()  method is now documented. ( #1266 ) 
                 
                 
                     The official Datasette Docker image now bundles SpatiaLite version 5. ( #1278 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a  no such table: pragma_database_list  bug when running Datasette against SQLite versions prior to SQLite 3.16.0. ( #1276 ) 
                 
                 
                     HTML lists displayed in table cells are now styled correctly. Thanks, Bob Whitelock. ( #1141 ,  #1252 ) 
                 
                 
                     Configuration directory mode now correctly serves immutable databases that are listed in  inspect-data.json . Thanks Campbell Allen and Frankie Robertson. ( #1031 ,  #1229 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1236"", ""label"": ""#1236""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1239"", ""label"": ""#1239""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1005"", ""label"": ""#1005""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1246"", ""label"": ""#1246""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1247"", ""label"": ""#1247""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1266"", ""label"": ""#1266""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1278"", ""label"": ""#1278""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1276"", ""label"": ""#1276""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1141"", ""label"": ""#1141""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1252"", ""label"": ""#1252""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1031"", ""label"": ""#1031""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1229"", ""label"": ""#1229""}]"
changelog:id92,changelog,id92,0.25.1 (2018-11-04),"Documentation improvements plus a fix for publishing to Zeit Now. 
             
                 
                     datasette publish now  now uses Zeit's v1 platform, to work around the new 100MB image limit. Thanks, @slygent - closes  #366 .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/366"", ""label"": ""#366""}]"
changelog:documentation,changelog,documentation,Documentation,"Documentation describing  how to write tests that use signed actor cookies  using  datasette.client.actor_cookie() . ( #1830 ) 
                     
                     
                         Documentation on how to  register a plugin for the duration of a test . ( #2234 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  configuration documentation  now shows examples of both YAML and JSON for each setting.","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a8 (2024-02-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1830"", ""label"": ""#1830""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2234"", ""label"": ""#2234""}]"
internals:internals-utils-derive-named-parameters,internals,internals-utils-derive-named-parameters,"derive_named_parameters(db, sql)","Derive the list of named parameters referenced in a SQL query, using an  explain  query executed against the provided database. 
                 
                 
                     async   datasette.utils. derive_named_parameters db :   Database sql :   str List [ str ] 
                     
                         Given a SQL statement, return a list of named parameters that are used in the statement 
                         e.g. for  select * from foo where id=:id  this would return  [""id""]","[""Internals for plugins"", ""The datasette.utils module""]",[]
changelog:id76,changelog,id76,0.31.1 (2019-11-12),Deployments created using  datasette publish   now use  python:3.8  base Docker image ( #629 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/629"", ""label"": ""#629""}]"
settings:setting-default-cache-ttl,settings,setting-default-cache-ttl,default_cache_ttl,"Default HTTP caching max-age header in seconds, used for  Cache-Control: max-age=X . Can be over-ridden on a per-request basis using the  ?_ttl=  query string parameter. Set this to  0  to disable HTTP caching entirely. Defaults to 5 seconds. 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_cache_ttl 60","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
facets:suggested-facets,facets,suggested-facets,Suggested facets,"Datasette's table UI will suggest facets for the user to apply, based on the following criteria: 
             For the currently filtered data are there any columns which, if applied as a facet... 
             
                 
                     Will return 30 or less unique options 
                 
                 
                     Will return more than one unique option 
                 
                 
                     Will return less unique options than the total number of filtered rows 
                 
                 
                     And the query used to evaluate this criteria can be completed in under 50ms 
                 
             
             That last point is particularly important: Datasette runs a query for every column that is displayed on a page, which could get expensive - so to avoid slow load times it sets a time limit of just 50ms for each of those queries.
                This means suggested facets are unlikely to appear for tables with millions of records in them.","[""Facets""]",[]
plugins:id1,plugins,id1,Plugins,"Datasette's plugin system allows additional features to be implemented as Python
            code (or front-end JavaScript) which can be wrapped up in a separate Python
            package. The underlying mechanism uses  pluggy . 
         See the  Datasette plugins directory  for a list of existing plugins, or take a look at the
             datasette-plugin  topic on GitHub. 
         Things you can do with plugins include: 
         
             
                 Add visualizations to Datasette, for example
                     datasette-cluster-map  and
                     datasette-vega . 
             
             
                 Make new custom SQL functions available for use within Datasette, for example
                     datasette-haversine  and
                     datasette-jellyfish . 
             
             
                 Define custom output formats with custom extensions, for example  datasette-atom  and
                     datasette-ics . 
             
             
                 Add template functions that can be called within your Jinja custom templates,
                    for example  datasette-render-markdown . 
             
             
                 Customize how database values are rendered in the Datasette interface, for example
                     datasette-render-binary  and
                     datasette-pretty-json . 
             
             
                 Customize how Datasette's authentication and permissions systems work, for example  datasette-auth-passwords  and
                     datasette-permissions-sql .",[],"[{""href"": ""https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""pluggy""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins"", ""label"": ""Datasette plugins directory""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/topics/datasette-plugin"", ""label"": ""datasette-plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cluster-map"", ""label"": ""datasette-cluster-map""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-vega"", ""label"": ""datasette-vega""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-haversine"", ""label"": ""datasette-haversine""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-jellyfish"", ""label"": ""datasette-jellyfish""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom"", ""label"": ""datasette-atom""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ics"", ""label"": ""datasette-ics""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-markdown#markdown-in-templates"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-markdown""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-binary"", ""label"": ""datasette-render-binary""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-pretty-json"", ""label"": ""datasette-pretty-json""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-passwords"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-passwords""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-permissions-sql"", ""label"": ""datasette-permissions-sql""}]"
contributing:contributing-documentation,contributing,contributing-documentation,Editing and building the documentation,"Datasette's documentation lives in the  docs/  directory and is deployed automatically using  Read The Docs . 
             The documentation is written using reStructuredText. You may find this article on  The subset of reStructuredText worth committing to memory  useful. 
             You can build it locally by installing  sphinx  and  sphinx_rtd_theme  in your Datasette development environment and then running  make html  directly in the  docs/  directory: 
             # You may first need to activate your virtual environment:
source venv/bin/activate

# Install the dependencies needed to build the docs
pip install -e .[docs]

# Now build the docs
cd docs/
make html 
             This will create the HTML version of the documentation in  docs/_build/html . You can open it in your browser like so: 
             open _build/html/index.html 
             Any time you make changes to a  .rst  file you can re-run  make html  to update the built documents, then refresh them in your browser. 
             For added productivity, you can use use  sphinx-autobuild  to run Sphinx in auto-build mode. This will run a local webserver serving the docs that automatically rebuilds them and refreshes the page any time you hit save in your editor. 
             sphinx-autobuild  will have been installed when you ran  pip install -e .[docs] . In your  docs/  directory you can start the server by running the following: 
             make livehtml 
             Now browse to  http://localhost:8000/  to view the documentation. Any edits you make should be instantly reflected in your browser.","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://readthedocs.org/"", ""label"": ""Read The Docs""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2018/Aug/25/restructuredtext/"", ""label"": ""The subset of reStructuredText worth committing to memory""}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-autobuild/"", ""label"": ""sphinx-autobuild""}]"
sql_queries:id2,sql_queries,id2,Pagination,"Datasette's default table pagination is designed to be extremely efficient. SQL OFFSET/LIMIT pagination can have a significant performance penalty once you get into multiple thousands of rows, as each page still requires the database to scan through every preceding row to find the correct offset. 
             When paginating through tables, Datasette instead orders the rows in the table by their primary key and performs a WHERE clause against the last seen primary key for the previous page. For example: 
             select rowid, * from Tree_List where rowid > 200 order by rowid limit 101 
             This represents page three for this particular table, with a page size of 100. 
             Note that we request 101 items in the limit clause rather than 100. This allows us to detect if we are on the last page of the results: if the query returns less than 101 rows we know we have reached the end of the pagination set. Datasette will only return the first 100 rows - the 101st is used purely to detect if there should be another page. 
             Since the where clause acts against the index on the primary key, the query is extremely fast even for records that are a long way into the overall pagination set.","[""Running SQL queries""]",[]
metadata:label-columns,metadata,label-columns,Specifying the label column for a table,"Datasette's HTML interface attempts to display foreign key references as
                labelled hyperlinks. By default, it looks for referenced tables that only have
                two columns: a primary key column and one other. It assumes that the second
                column should be used as the link label. 
             If your table has more than two columns you can specify which column should be
                used for the link label with the  label_column  property: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""database1"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""label_column"": ""title""
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Metadata""]",[]
configuration:configuration-reference-permissions,configuration,configuration-reference-permissions,Permissions configuration,"Datasette's  authentication and permissions  system can also be configured using  datasette.yaml . 
                 Here is a simple example: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    # Instance is only available to users 'sharon' and 'percy':
    allow:
      id:
      - sharon
      - percy

    # Only 'percy' is allowed access to the accounting database:
    databases:
      accounting:
        allow:
          id: percy
  """""").strip()
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Access permissions in datasette.yaml  has the full details.","[""Configuration"", null]",[]
changelog:new-configuration-settings,changelog,new-configuration-settings,New configuration settings,"Datasette's  Settings  now also supports boolean settings. A number of new
                    configuration options have been added: 
                 
                     
                         num_sql_threads  - the number of threads used to execute SQLite queries. Defaults to 3. 
                     
                     
                         allow_facet  - enable or disable custom  Facets  using the  _facet=  parameter. Defaults to on. 
                     
                     
                         suggest_facets  - should Datasette suggest facets? Defaults to on. 
                     
                     
                         allow_download  - should users be allowed to download the entire SQLite database? Defaults to on. 
                     
                     
                         allow_sql  - should users be allowed to execute custom SQL queries? Defaults to on. 
                     
                     
                         default_cache_ttl  - Default HTTP caching max-age header in seconds. Defaults to 365 days - caching can be disabled entirely by settings this to 0. 
                     
                     
                         cache_size_kb  - Set the amount of memory SQLite uses for its  per-connection cache , in KB. 
                     
                     
                         allow_csv_stream  - allow users to stream entire result sets as a single CSV file. Defaults to on. 
                     
                     
                         max_csv_mb  - maximum size of a returned CSV file in MB. Defaults to 100MB, set to 0 to disable this limit.","[""Changelog"", ""0.23 (2018-06-18)""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size"", ""label"": ""per-connection cache""}]"
changelog:writable-canned-queries,changelog,writable-canned-queries,Writable canned queries,"Datasette's  Canned queries  feature lets you define SQL queries in  metadata.json  which can then be executed by users visiting a specific URL.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/neighborhood_search  for example. 
                 Canned queries were previously restricted to  SELECT , but Datasette 0.44 introduces the ability for canned queries to execute  INSERT  or  UPDATE  queries as well, using the new  ""write"": true  property ( #800 ): 
                 {
    ""databases"": {
        ""dogs"": {
            ""queries"": {
                ""add_name"": {
                    ""sql"": ""INSERT INTO names (name) VALUES (:name)"",
                    ""write"": true
                }
            }
        }
    }
} 
                 See  Writable canned queries  for more details.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/neighborhood_search"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/neighborhood_search""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/800"", ""label"": ""#800""}]"
contributing:contributing-formatting,contributing,contributing-formatting,Code formatting,"Datasette uses opinionated code formatters:  Black  for Python and  Prettier  for JavaScript. 
             These formatters are enforced by Datasette's continuous integration: if a commit includes Python or JavaScript code that does not match the style enforced by those tools, the tests will fail. 
             When developing locally, you can verify and correct the formatting of your code using these tools.","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/psf/black"", ""label"": ""Black""}, {""href"": ""https://prettier.io/"", ""label"": ""Prettier""}]"
settings:setting-secret,settings,setting-secret,Configuring the secret,"Datasette uses a secret string to sign secure values such as cookies. 
             If you do not provide a secret, Datasette will create one when it starts up. This secret will reset every time the Datasette server restarts though, so things like authentication cookies and  API tokens  will not stay valid between restarts. 
             You can pass a secret to Datasette in two ways: with the  --secret  command-line option or by setting a  DATASETTE_SECRET  environment variable. 
             datasette mydb.db --secret=SECRET_VALUE_HERE 
             Or: 
             export DATASETTE_SECRET=SECRET_VALUE_HERE
datasette mydb.db 
             One way to generate a secure random secret is to use Python like this: 
             python3 -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))'
cdb19e94283a20f9d42cca50c5a4871c0aa07392db308755d60a1a5b9bb0fa52 
             Plugin authors make use of this signing mechanism in their plugins using  .sign(value, namespace=""default"")  and  .unsign(value, namespace=""default"") .","[""Settings""]",[]
internals:internals-tilde-encoding,internals,internals-tilde-encoding,Tilde encoding,"Datasette uses a custom encoding scheme in some places, called  tilde encoding . This is primarily used for table names and row primary keys, to avoid any confusion between  /  characters in those values and the Datasette URLs that reference them. 
                 Tilde encoding uses the same algorithm as  URL percent-encoding , but with the  ~  tilde character used in place of  % . 
                 Any character other than  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-  will be replaced by the numeric equivalent preceded by a tilde. For example: 
                 
                     
                         /  becomes  ~2F 
                     
                     
                         .  becomes  ~2E 
                     
                     
                         %  becomes  ~25 
                     
                     
                         ~  becomes  ~7E 
                     
                     
                         Space becomes  + 
                     
                     
                         polls/2022.primary  becomes  polls~2F2022~2Eprimary 
                     
                 
                 Note that the space character is a special case: it will be replaced with a  +  symbol. 
                 
                 
                 
                     datasette.utils. tilde_encode s :   str str 
                     
                         Returns tilde-encoded string - for example  /foo/bar  ->  ~2Ffoo~2Fbar 
                     
                 
                 
                 
                 
                     datasette.utils. tilde_decode s :   str str 
                     
                         Decodes a tilde-encoded string, so  ~2Ffoo~2Fbar  ->  /foo/bar","[""Internals for plugins"", ""The datasette.utils module""]","[{""href"": ""https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/percent-encoding"", ""label"": ""URL percent-encoding""}]"
internals:internals-csrf,internals,internals-csrf,CSRF protection,"Datasette uses  asgi-csrf  to guard against CSRF attacks on form POST submissions. Users receive a  ds_csrftoken  cookie which is compared against the  csrftoken  form field (or  x-csrftoken  HTTP header) for every incoming request. 
             If your plugin implements a  <form method=""POST"">  anywhere you will need to include that token. You can do so with the following template snippet: 
             <input type=""hidden"" name=""csrftoken"" value=""{{ csrftoken() }}""> 
             If you are rendering templates using the  await .render_template(template, context=None, request=None)  method the  csrftoken()  helper will only work if you provide the  request=  argument to that method. If you forget to do this you will see the following error: 
             form-urlencoded POST field did not match cookie 
             You can selectively disable CSRF protection using the  skip_csrf(datasette, scope)  hook.","[""Internals for plugins""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/asgi-csrf"", ""label"": ""asgi-csrf""}]"
sql_queries:sql,sql_queries,sql,Running SQL queries,"Datasette treats SQLite database files as read-only and immutable. This means it is not possible to execute INSERT or UPDATE statements using Datasette, which allows us to expose SELECT statements to the outside world without needing to worry about SQL injection attacks. 
         The easiest way to execute custom SQL against Datasette is through the web UI. The database index page includes a SQL editor that lets you run any SELECT query you like. You can also construct queries using the filter interface on the tables page, then click ""View and edit SQL"" to open that query in the custom SQL editor. 
         Note that this interface is only available if the  execute-sql  permission is allowed. See  Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL . 
         Any Datasette SQL query is reflected in the URL of the page, allowing you to bookmark them, share them with others and navigate through previous queries using your browser back button. 
         You can also retrieve the results of any query as JSON by adding  .json  to the base URL.",[],[]
full_text_search:full-text-search-enabling,full_text_search,full-text-search-enabling,Enabling full-text search for a SQLite table,"Datasette takes advantage of the  external content  mechanism in SQLite, which allows a full-text search virtual table to be associated with the contents of another SQLite table. 
             To set up full-text search for a table, you need to do two things: 
             
                 
                     Create a new FTS virtual table associated with your table 
                 
                 
                     Populate that FTS table with the data that you would like to be able to run searches against","[""Full-text search""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html#_external_content_fts4_tables_"", ""label"": ""external content""}]"
metadata:specifying-units-for-a-column,metadata,specifying-units-for-a-column,Specifying units for a column,"Datasette supports attaching units to a column, which will be used when displaying
                values from that column. SI prefixes will be used where appropriate. 
             Column units are configured in the metadata like so: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""database1"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""units"": {
                        ""column1"": ""metres"",
                        ""column2"": ""Hz""
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             Units are interpreted using  Pint , and you can see the full list of available units in
                Pint's  unit registry . You can also add  custom units  to the metadata, which will be
                registered with Pint: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""custom_units"": [
        ""decibel = [] = dB""
    ]
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Metadata""]","[{""href"": ""https://pint.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""Pint""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/blob/master/pint/default_en.txt"", ""label"": ""unit registry""}, {""href"": ""http://pint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/defining.html"", ""label"": ""custom units""}]"
settings:using-setting,settings,using-setting,Using --setting,"Datasette supports a number of settings. These can be set using the  --setting name value  option to  datasette serve . 
             You can set multiple settings at once like this: 
             datasette mydatabase.db \
  --setting default_page_size 50 \
  --setting sql_time_limit_ms 3500 \
  --setting max_returned_rows 2000 
             Settings can also be specified  in the database.yaml configuration file .","[""Settings""]",[]
ecosystem:ecosystem,ecosystem,ecosystem,The Datasette Ecosystem,"Datasette sits at the center of a growing ecosystem of open source tools aimed at making it as easy as possible to gather, analyze and publish interesting data. 
         These tools are divided into two main groups: tools for building SQLite databases (for use with Datasette) and plugins that extend Datasette's functionality. 
         The  Datasette project website  includes a directory of plugins and a directory of tools: 
         
             
                 Plugins directory on datasette.io 
             
             
                 Tools directory on datasette.io",[],"[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""Datasette project website""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins"", ""label"": ""Plugins directory on datasette.io""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tools"", ""label"": ""Tools directory on datasette.io""}]"
performance:performance,performance,performance,Performance and caching,"Datasette runs on top of SQLite, and SQLite has excellent performance.  For small databases almost any query should return in just a few milliseconds, and larger databases (100s of MBs or even GBs of data) should perform extremely well provided your queries make sensible use of database indexes. 
         That said, there are a number of tricks you can use to improve Datasette's performance.",[],[]
custom_templates:custom-pages-errors,custom_templates,custom-pages-errors,Custom error pages,"Datasette returns an error page if an unexpected error occurs, access is forbidden or content cannot be found. 
                 You can customize the response returned for these errors by providing a custom error page template. 
                 Content not found errors use a  404.html  template. Access denied errors use  403.html . Invalid input errors use  400.html . Unexpected errors of other kinds use  500.html . 
                 If a template for the specific error code is not found a template called  error.html  will be used instead. If you do not provide that template Datasette's  default error.html template  will be used. 
                 The error template will be passed the following context: 
                 
                     
                         status  - integer 
                         
                             The integer HTTP status code, e.g. 404, 500, 403, 400. 
                         
                     
                     
                         error  - string 
                         
                             Details of the specific error, usually a full sentence. 
                         
                     
                     
                         title  - string or None 
                         
                             A title for the page representing the class of error. This is often  None  for errors that do not provide a title separate from their  error  message.","[""Custom pages and templates"", ""Custom redirects""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/datasette/templates/error.html"", ""label"": ""default error.html template""}]"
settings:setting-max-returned-rows,settings,setting-max-returned-rows,max_returned_rows,"Datasette returns a maximum of 1,000 rows of data at a time. If you execute a query that returns more than 1,000 rows, Datasette will return the first 1,000 and include a warning that the result set has been truncated. You can use OFFSET/LIMIT or other methods in your SQL to implement pagination if you need to return more than 1,000 rows. 
                 You can increase or decrease this limit like so: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_returned_rows 2000","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
installation:installation-pip,installation,installation-pip,Using pip,"Datasette requires Python 3.8 or higher. The  Python.org Python For Beginners  page has instructions for getting started. 
                 You can install Datasette and its dependencies using  pip : 
                 pip install datasette 
                 You can now run Datasette like so: 
                 datasette","[""Installation"", ""Basic installation""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/"", ""label"": ""Python.org Python For Beginners""}]"
contributing:contributing-release,contributing,contributing-release,Release process,"Datasette releases are performed using tags. When a new release is published on GitHub, a  GitHub Action workflow  will perform the following: 
             
                 
                     Run the unit tests against all supported Python versions. If the tests pass... 
                 
                 
                     Build a Docker image of the release and push a tag to  https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette 
                 
                 
                     Re-point the ""latest"" tag on Docker Hub to the new image 
                 
                 
                     Build a wheel bundle of the underlying Python source code 
                 
                 
                     Push that new wheel up to PyPI:  https://pypi.org/project/datasette/ 
                 
                 
                     If the release is an alpha, navigate to  https://readthedocs.org/projects/datasette/versions/  and search for the tag name in the ""Activate a version"" filter, then mark that version as ""active"" to ensure it will appear on the public ReadTheDocs documentation site. 
                 
             
             To deploy new releases you will need to have push access to the main Datasette GitHub repository. 
             Datasette follows  Semantic Versioning : 
             major.minor.patch 
             We increment  major  for backwards-incompatible releases. Datasette is currently pre-1.0 so the major version is always  0 . 
             We increment  minor  for new features. 
             We increment  patch  for bugfix releass. 
             Alpha and beta releases  may have an additional  a0  or  b0  prefix - the integer component will be incremented with each subsequent alpha or beta. 
             To release a new version, first create a commit that updates the version number in  datasette/version.py  and the  the changelog  with highlights of the new version. An example  commit can be seen here : 
             # Update changelog
git commit -m "" Release 0.51a1

Refs #1056, #1039, #998, #1045, #1033, #1036, #1034, #976, #1057, #1058, #1053, #1064, #1066"" -a
git push 
             Referencing the issues that are part of the release in the commit message ensures the name of the release shows up on those issue pages, e.g.  here . 
             You can generate the list of issue references for a specific release by copying and pasting text from the release notes or GitHub changes-since-last-release view into this  Extract issue numbers from pasted text  tool. 
             To create the tag for the release, create  a new release  on GitHub matching the new version number. You can convert the release notes to Markdown by copying and pasting the rendered HTML into this  Paste to Markdown tool . 
             Finally, post a news item about the release on  datasette.io  by editing the  news.yaml  file in that site's repository.","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy-latest.yml"", ""label"": ""GitHub Action workflow""}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/datasette/"", ""label"": ""https://pypi.org/project/datasette/""}, {""href"": ""https://readthedocs.org/projects/datasette/versions/"", ""label"": ""https://readthedocs.org/projects/datasette/versions/""}, {""href"": ""https://semver.org/"", ""label"": ""Semantic Versioning""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/commit/0e1e89c6ba3d0fbdb0823272952cf356f3016def"", ""label"": ""commit can be seen here""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/581#ref-commit-d56f402"", ""label"": ""here""}, {""href"": ""https://observablehq.com/@simonw/extract-issue-numbers-from-pasted-text"", ""label"": ""Extract issue numbers from pasted text""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/new"", ""label"": ""a new release""}, {""href"": ""https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/"", ""label"": ""Paste to Markdown tool""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""datasette.io""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io/blob/main/news.yaml"", ""label"": ""news.yaml""}]"
json_api:json-api-write,json_api,json-api-write,The JSON write API,"Datasette provides a write API for JSON data. This is a POST-only API that requires an authenticated API token, see  API Tokens . The token will need to have the specified  Permissions .","[""JSON API""]",[]
custom_templates:customization,custom_templates,customization,Custom pages and templates,Datasette provides a number of ways of customizing the way data is displayed.,[],[]
json_api:id1,json_api,id1,JSON API,"Datasette provides a JSON API for your SQLite databases. Anything you can do
            through the Datasette user interface can also be accessed as JSON via the API. 
         To access the API for a page, either click on the  .json  link on that page or
            edit the URL and add a  .json  extension to it.",[],[]
authentication:permissions-plugins,authentication,permissions-plugins,Checking permissions in plugins,"Datasette plugins can check if an actor has permission to perform an action using the  datasette.permission_allowed(...)  method. 
             Datasette core performs a number of permission checks,  documented below . Plugins can implement the  permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource)  plugin hook to participate in decisions about whether an actor should be able to perform a specified action.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
configuration:configuration-reference-plugins,configuration,configuration-reference-plugins,Plugin configuration,"Datasette plugins  often require configuration. This plugin configuration should be placed in  plugins  keys inside  datasette.yaml . 
                 Most plugins are configured at the top-level of the file, using the  plugins  key: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    # inside datasette.yaml
    plugins:
      datasette-my-plugin:
        key: my_value
    """""").strip()
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Some plugins can be configured at the database or table level. These should use a  plugins  key nested under the appropriate place within the  databases  object: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
import textwrap
config_example(cog, textwrap.dedent(
  """"""
    # inside datasette.yaml
    databases:
      my_database:
        # plugin configuration for the my_database database
        plugins:
          datasette-my-plugin:
            key: my_value
      my_other_database:
        tables:
          my_table:
            # plugin configuration for the my_table table inside the my_other_database database
            plugins:
              datasette-my-plugin:
                key: my_value
  """""").strip()
  ) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]]","[""Configuration"", null]",[]
configuration:id1,configuration,id1,Configuration,"Datasette offers several ways to configure your Datasette instances: server settings, plugin configuration, authentication, and more. 
         Most configuration can be handled using a  datasette.yaml  configuration file, passed to datasette using the  -c/--config  flag: 
         datasette mydatabase.db --config datasette.yaml 
         This file can also use JSON, as  datasette.json . YAML is recommended over JSON due to its support for comments and multi-line strings.",[],[]
changelog:id74,changelog,id74,0.32 (2019-11-14),"Datasette now renders templates using  Jinja async mode . This means plugins can provide custom template functions that perform asynchronous actions, for example the new  datasette-template-sql  plugin which allows custom templates to directly execute SQL queries and render their results. ( #628 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.10.x/api/#async-support"", ""label"": ""Jinja async mode""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-template-sql"", ""label"": ""datasette-template-sql""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/628"", ""label"": ""#628""}]"
changelog:javascript-plugins,changelog,javascript-plugins,JavaScript plugins,"Datasette now includes a  JavaScript plugins mechanism , allowing JavaScript to customize Datasette in a way that can collaborate with other plugins. 
                 This provides two initial hooks, with more to come in the future: 
                 
                     
                         makeAboveTablePanelConfigs()  can add additional panels to the top of the table page. 
                     
                     
                         makeColumnActions()  can add additional actions to the column menu. 
                     
                 
                 Thanks  Cameron Yick  for contributing this feature. ( #2052 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a8 (2024-02-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/hydrosquall"", ""label"": ""Cameron Yick""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2052"", ""label"": ""#2052""}]"
changelog:id56,changelog,id56,0.47 (2020-08-11),"Datasette now has  a GitHub discussions forum  for conversations about the project that go beyond just bug reports and issues. 
                 
                 
                     Datasette can now be installed on macOS using Homebrew! Run  brew install simonw/datasette/datasette . See  Using Homebrew . ( #335 ) 
                 
                 
                     Two new commands:  datasette install name-of-plugin  and  datasette uninstall name-of-plugin . These are equivalent to  pip install  and  pip uninstall  but automatically run in the same virtual environment as Datasette, so users don't have to figure out where that virtual environment is - useful for installations created using Homebrew or  pipx . See  Installing plugins . ( #925 ) 
                 
                 
                     A new command-line option,  datasette --get , accepts a path to a URL within the Datasette instance. It will run that request through Datasette (without starting a web server) and print out the response. See  datasette --get  for an example. ( #926 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/discussions"", ""label"": ""a GitHub discussions forum""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/335"", ""label"": ""#335""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/925"", ""label"": ""#925""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/926"", ""label"": ""#926""}]"
changelog:v0-28-medium-changes,changelog,v0-28-medium-changes,Medium changes,"Datasette now conforms to the  Black coding style  ( #449 ) - and has a unit test to enforce this in the future 
                     
                     
                         
                             
                                 New  Special table arguments : 
                                 
                                     
                                         
                                             ?columnname__in=value1,value2,value3  filter for executing SQL IN queries against a table, see  Table arguments  ( #433 ) 
                                         
                                         
                                             ?columnname__date=yyyy-mm-dd  filter which returns rows where the spoecified datetime column falls on the specified date ( 583b22a ) 
                                         
                                         
                                             ?tags__arraycontains=tag  filter which acts against a JSON array contained in a column ( 78e45ea ) 
                                         
                                         
                                             ?_where=sql-fragment  filter for the table view  ( #429 ) 
                                         
                                         
                                             ?_fts_table=mytable  and  ?_fts_pk=mycolumn  query string options can be used to specify which FTS table to use for a search query - see  Configuring full-text search for a table or view  ( #428 ) 
                                         
                                     
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                     
                         You can now pass the same table filter multiple times - for example,  ?content__not=world&content__not=hello  will return all rows where the content column is neither  hello  or  world  ( #288 ) 
                     
                     
                         You can now specify  about  and  about_url  metadata (in addition to  source  and  license ) linking to further information about a project - see  Source, license and about 
                     
                     
                         New  ?_trace=1  parameter now adds debug information showing every SQL query that was executed while constructing the page ( #435 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette inspect  now just calculates table counts, and does not introspect other database metadata ( #462 ) 
                     
                     
                         Removed  /-/inspect  page entirely - this will be replaced by something similar in the future, see  #465 
                     
                     
                         Datasette can now run against an in-memory SQLite database. You can do this by starting it without passing any files or by using the new  --memory  option to  datasette serve . This can be useful for experimenting with SQLite queries that do not access any data, such as  SELECT 1+1  or  SELECT sqlite_version() .","[""Changelog"", ""0.28 (2019-05-19)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/python/black"", ""label"": ""Black coding style""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/449"", ""label"": ""#449""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/433"", ""label"": ""#433""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/commit/583b22aa28e26c318de0189312350ab2688c90b1"", ""label"": ""583b22a""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/commit/78e45ead4d771007c57b307edf8fc920101f8733"", ""label"": ""78e45ea""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/429"", ""label"": ""#429""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/428"", ""label"": ""#428""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/288"", ""label"": ""#288""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/435"", ""label"": ""#435""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/462"", ""label"": ""#462""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/465"", ""label"": ""#465""}]"
changelog:id7,changelog,id7,0.64 (2023-01-09),"Datasette now  strongly recommends against allowing arbitrary SQL queries if you are using SpatiaLite . SpatiaLite includes SQL functions that could cause the Datasette server to crash. See  SpatiaLite  for more details. 
                 
                 
                     New  default_allow_sql  setting, providing an easier way to disable all arbitrary SQL execution by end users:  datasette --setting default_allow_sql off . See also  Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL . ( #1409 ) 
                 
                 
                     Building a location to time zone API with SpatiaLite  is a new Datasette tutorial showing how to safely use SpatiaLite to create a location to time zone API. 
                 
                 
                     New documentation about  how to debug problems loading SQLite extensions . The error message shown when an extension cannot be loaded has also been improved. ( #1979 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed an accessibility issue: the  <select>  elements in the table filter form now show an outline when they are currently focused. ( #1771 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1409"", ""label"": ""#1409""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/spatialite"", ""label"": ""Building a location to time zone API with SpatiaLite""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1979"", ""label"": ""#1979""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1771"", ""label"": ""#1771""}]"
changelog:minor-fixes,changelog,minor-fixes,Minor fixes,"Datasette no longer attempts to run SQL queries in parallel when rendering a table page, as this was leading to some rare crashing bugs. ( #2189 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed warning:  DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API  ( #2057 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed bug where  ?_extra=columns  parameter returned an incorrectly shaped response. ( #2230 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a8 (2024-02-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2189"", ""label"": ""#2189""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2057"", ""label"": ""#2057""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2230"", ""label"": ""#2230""}]"
internals:internals-internal,internals,internals-internal,Datasette's internal database,"Datasette maintains an ""internal"" SQLite database used for configuration, caching, and storage. Plugins can store configuration, settings, and other data inside this database. By default, Datasette will use a temporary in-memory SQLite database as the internal database, which is created at startup and destroyed at shutdown. Users of Datasette can optionally pass in a  --internal  flag to specify the path to a SQLite database to use as the internal database, which will persist internal data across Datasette instances. 
             Datasette maintains tables called  catalog_databases ,  catalog_tables ,  catalog_columns ,  catalog_indexes ,  catalog_foreign_keys  with details of the attached databases and their schemas. These tables should not be considered a stable API - they may change between Datasette releases. 
             The internal database is not exposed in the Datasette application by default, which means private data can safely be stored without worry of accidentally leaking information through the default Datasette interface and API. However, other plugins do have full read and write access to the internal database. 
             Plugins can access this database by calling  internal_db = datasette.get_internal_database()  and then executing queries using the  Database API . 
             Plugin authors are asked to practice good etiquette when using the internal database, as all plugins use the same database to store data. For example: 
             
                 
                     Use a unique prefix when creating tables, indices, and triggers in the internal database. If your plugin is called  datasette-xyz , then prefix names with  datasette_xyz_* . 
                 
                 
                     Avoid long-running write statements that may stall or block other plugins that are trying to write at the same time. 
                 
                 
                     Use temporary tables or shared in-memory attached databases when possible. 
                 
                 
                     Avoid implementing features that could expose private data stored in the internal database by other plugins.","[""Internals for plugins""]",[]
changelog:id14,changelog,id14,Features,"Datasette is now compatible with  Pyodide .  This is the enabling technology behind  Datasette Lite . ( #1733 ) 
                     
                     
                         Database file downloads now implement conditional GET using ETags. ( #1739 ) 
                     
                     
                         HTML for facet results and suggested results has been extracted out into new templates  _facet_results.html  and  _suggested_facets.html . Thanks, M. Nasimul Haque. ( #1759 ) 
                     
                     
                         Datasette now runs some SQL queries in parallel. This has limited impact on performance, see  this research issue  for details. 
                     
                     
                         New  --nolock  option for ignoring file locks when opening read-only databases. ( #1744 ) 
                     
                     
                         Spaces in the database names in URLs are now encoded as  +  rather than  ~20 . ( #1701 ) 
                     
                     
                         <Binary: 2427344 bytes>  is now displayed as  <Binary: 2,427,344 bytes>  and is accompanied by tooltip showing ""2.3MB"". ( #1712 ) 
                     
                     
                         The base Docker image used by  datasette publish cloudrun ,  datasette package  and the  official Datasette image  has been upgraded to  3.10.6-slim-bullseye .  ( #1768 ) 
                     
                     
                         Canned writable queries against immutable databases now show a warning message. ( #1728 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette publish cloudrun  has a new  --timeout  option which can be used to increase the time limit applied by the Google Cloud build environment. Thanks, Tim Sherratt. ( #1717 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette publish cloudrun  has new  --min-instances  and  --max-instances  options. ( #1779 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.62 (2022-08-14)""]","[{""href"": ""https://pyodide.org/"", ""label"": ""Pyodide""}, {""href"": ""https://lite.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Lite""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1733"", ""label"": ""#1733""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1739"", ""label"": ""#1739""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1759"", ""label"": ""#1759""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1727"", ""label"": ""this research issue""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1744"", ""label"": ""#1744""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1701"", ""label"": ""#1701""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1712"", ""label"": ""#1712""}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": ""official Datasette image""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1768"", ""label"": ""#1768""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1728"", ""label"": ""#1728""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1717"", ""label"": ""#1717""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1779"", ""label"": ""#1779""}]"
changelog:new-visual-design,changelog,new-visual-design,New visual design,"Datasette is no longer white and grey with blue and purple links!  Natalie Downe  has been working on a visual refresh, the first iteration of which is included in this release. ( #1056 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.51 (2020-10-31)""]","[{""href"": ""https://twitter.com/natbat"", ""label"": ""Natalie Downe""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1056"", ""label"": ""#1056""}]"
contributing:id1,contributing,id1,Contributing,"Datasette is an open source project. We welcome contributions! 
         This document describes how to contribute to Datasette core. You can also contribute to the wider Datasette ecosystem by creating new  Plugins .",[],[]
publish:publishing,publish,publishing,Publishing data,Datasette includes tools for publishing and deploying your data to the internet. The  datasette publish  command will deploy a new Datasette instance containing your databases directly to a Heroku or Google Cloud hosting account. You can also use  datasette package  to create a Docker image that bundles your databases together with the datasette application that is used to serve them.,[],[]
introspection:id1,introspection,id1,Introspection,"Datasette includes some pages and JSON API endpoints for introspecting the current instance. These can be used to understand some of the internals of Datasette and to see how a particular instance has been configured. 
         Each of these pages can be viewed in your browser. Add  .json  to the URL to get back the contents as JSON.",[],[]
plugin_hooks:plugin-event-tracking,plugin_hooks,plugin-event-tracking,Event tracking,"Datasette includes an internal mechanism for tracking notable events. This can be used for analytics, but can also be used by plugins that want to listen out for when key events occur (such as a table being created) and take action in response. 
             Plugins can register to receive events using the  track_event  plugin hook. 
             They can also define their own events for other plugins to receive using the  register_events() plugin hook , combined with calls to the  datasette.track_event() internal method .","[""Plugin hooks""]",[]
events:id1,events,id1,Events,"Datasette includes a mechanism for tracking events that occur while the software is running. This is primarily intended to be used by plugins, which can both trigger events and listen for events. 
         The core Datasette application triggers events when certain things happen. This page describes those events. 
         Plugins can listen for events using the  track_event(datasette, event)  plugin hook, which will be called with instances of the following classes - or additional classes  registered by other plugins . 
         
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. LoginEvent actor :   dict   |   None 
             
                 Event name:  login 
                 A user (represented by  event.actor ) has logged in. 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. LogoutEvent actor :   dict   |   None 
             
                 Event name:  logout 
                 A user (represented by  event.actor ) has logged out. 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. CreateTokenEvent actor :   dict   |   None expires_after :   int   |   None restrict_all :   list restrict_database :   dict restrict_resource :   dict 
             
                 Event name:  create-token 
                 A user created an API token. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     expires_after  -- Number of seconds after which this token will expire. 
                                 
                                 
                                     restrict_all  -- Restricted permissions for this token. 
                                 
                                 
                                     restrict_database  -- Restricted database permissions for this token. 
                                 
                                 
                                     restrict_resource  -- Restricted resource permissions for this token. 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. CreateTableEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str schema :   str 
             
                 Event name:  create-table 
                 A new table has been created in the database. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the table was created. 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table that was created 
                                 
                                 
                                     schema  -- The SQL schema definition for the new table. 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. DropTableEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str 
             
                 Event name:  drop-table 
                 A table has been dropped from the database. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the table was dropped. 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table that was dropped 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. AlterTableEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str before_schema :   str after_schema :   str 
             
                 Event name:  alter-table 
                 A table has been altered. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the table was altered 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table that was altered 
                                 
                                 
                                     before_schema  -- The table's SQL schema before the alteration 
                                 
                                 
                                     after_schema  -- The table's SQL schema after the alteration 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. InsertRowsEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str num_rows :   int ignore :   bool replace :   bool 
             
                 Event name:  insert-rows 
                 Rows were inserted into a table. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the rows were inserted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table where the rows were inserted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     num_rows  -- The number of rows that were requested to be inserted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     ignore  -- Was ignore set? 
                                 
                                 
                                     replace  -- Was replace set? 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. UpsertRowsEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str num_rows :   int 
             
                 Event name:  upsert-rows 
                 Rows were upserted into a table. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the rows were inserted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table where the rows were inserted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     num_rows  -- The number of rows that were requested to be inserted. 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. UpdateRowEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str pks :   list 
             
                 Event name:  update-row 
                 A row was updated in a table. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the row was updated. 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table where the row was updated. 
                                 
                                 
                                     pks  -- The primary key values of the updated row. 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                 
             
         
         
         
             class   datasette.events. DeleteRowEvent actor :   dict   |   None database :   str table :   str pks :   list 
             
                 Event name:  delete-row 
                 A row was deleted from a table. 
                 
                     
                         Variables 
                         
                             
                                 
                                     database  -- The name of the database where the row was deleted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     table  -- The name of the table where the row was deleted. 
                                 
                                 
                                     pks  -- The primary key values of the deleted row.",[],[]
authentication:createtokenview,authentication,createtokenview,API Tokens,"Datasette includes a default mechanism for generating API tokens that can be used to authenticate requests. 
             Authenticated users can create new API tokens using a form on the  /-/create-token  page. 
             Tokens created in this way can be further restricted to only allow access to specific actions, or to limit those actions to specific databases, tables or queries. 
             Created tokens can then be passed in the  Authorization: Bearer $token  header of HTTP requests to Datasette. 
             A token created by a user will include that user's  ""id""  in the token payload, so any permissions granted to that user based on their ID can be made available to the token as well. 
             When one of these a token accompanies a request, the actor for that request will have the following shape: 
             {
    ""id"": ""user_id"",
    ""token"": ""dstok"",
    ""token_expires"": 1667717426
} 
             The  ""id""  field duplicates the ID of the actor who first created the token. 
             The  ""token""  field identifies that this actor was authenticated using a Datasette signed token ( dstok ). 
             The  ""token_expires""  field, if present, indicates that the token will expire after that integer timestamp. 
             The  /-/create-token  page cannot be accessed by actors that are authenticated with a  ""token"": ""some-value""  property. This is to prevent API tokens from being used to create more tokens. 
             Datasette plugins that implement their own form of API token authentication should follow this convention. 
             You can disable the signed token feature entirely using the  allow_signed_tokens  setting.","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
authentication:authentication-ds-actor,authentication,authentication-ds-actor,The ds_actor cookie,"Datasette includes a default authentication plugin which looks for a signed  ds_actor  cookie containing a JSON actor dictionary. This is how the  root actor  mechanism works. 
             Authentication plugins can set signed  ds_actor  cookies themselves like so: 
             response = Response.redirect(""/"")
response.set_cookie(
    ""ds_actor"",
    datasette.sign({""a"": {""id"": ""cleopaws""}}, ""actor""),
) 
             Note that you need to pass  ""actor""  as the namespace to  .sign(value, namespace=""default"") . 
             The shape of data encoded in the cookie is as follows: 
             {
    ""a"": {... actor ...}
}","[""Authentication and permissions""]",[]
sql_queries:sql-parameters,sql_queries,sql-parameters,Named parameters,"Datasette has special support for SQLite named parameters. Consider a SQL query like this: 
             select * from Street_Tree_List
where ""PermitNotes"" like :notes
and ""qSpecies"" = :species 
             If you execute this query using the custom query editor, Datasette will extract the two named parameters and use them to construct form fields for you to provide values. 
             You can also provide values for these fields by constructing a URL: 
             /mydatabase?sql=select...&species=44 
             SQLite string escaping rules will be applied to values passed using named parameters - they will be wrapped in quotes and their content will be correctly escaped. 
             Values from named parameters are treated as SQLite strings. If you need to perform numeric comparisons on them you should cast them to an integer or float first using  cast(:name as integer)  or  cast(:name as real) , for example: 
             select * from Street_Tree_List
where latitude > cast(:min_latitude as real)
and latitude < cast(:max_latitude as real) 
             Datasette disallows custom SQL queries containing the string PRAGMA (with a small number  of exceptions ) as SQLite pragma statements can be used to change database settings at runtime. If you need to include the string ""pragma"" in a query you can do so safely using a named parameter.","[""Running SQL queries""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/761"", ""label"": ""of exceptions""}]"
getting_started:getting-started-tutorial,getting_started,getting-started-tutorial,Follow a tutorial,"Datasette has several  tutorials  to help you get started with the tool. Try one of the following: 
             
                 
                     Exploring a database with Datasette  shows how to use the Datasette web interface to explore a new database. 
                 
                 
                     Learn SQL with Datasette  introduces SQL, and shows how to use that query language to ask questions of your data. 
                 
                 
                     Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette  guides you through using  sqlite-utils  to turn a CSV file into a database that you can explore using Datasette.","[""Getting started""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials"", ""label"": ""tutorials""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/explore"", ""label"": ""Exploring a database with Datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/learn-sql"", ""label"": ""Learn SQL with Datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/clean-data"", ""label"": ""Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""sqlite-utils""}]"
changelog:id37,changelog,id37,0.53 (2020-12-10),"Datasette has an official project website now, at  https://datasette.io/ . This release mainly updates the documentation to reflect the new site. 
             
                 
                     New  ?column__arraynotcontains=  table filter. ( #1132 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette serve  has a new  --create  option, which will create blank database files if they do not already exist rather than exiting with an error. ( #1135 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  ?_header=off  option for CSV export which omits the CSV header row,  documented here . ( #1133 ) 
                 
                 
                     ""Powered by Datasette"" link in the footer now links to  https://datasette.io/ . ( #1138 ) 
                 
                 
                     Project news no longer lives in the README - it can now be found at  https://datasette.io/news . ( #1137 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""https://datasette.io/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1132"", ""label"": ""#1132""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1135"", ""label"": ""#1135""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1133"", ""label"": ""#1133""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""https://datasette.io/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1138"", ""label"": ""#1138""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/news"", ""label"": ""https://datasette.io/news""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1137"", ""label"": ""#1137""}]"
authentication:authentication-permissions,authentication,authentication-permissions,Permissions,"Datasette has an extensive permissions system built-in, which can be further extended and customized by plugins. 
             The key question the permissions system answers is this: 
             
                 Is this  actor  allowed to perform this  action , optionally against this particular  resource ? 
             
             Actors  are  described above . 
             An  action  is a string describing the action the actor would like to perform. A full list is  provided below  - examples include  view-table  and  execute-sql . 
             A  resource  is the item the actor wishes to interact with - for example a specific database or table. Some actions, such as  permissions-debug , are not associated with a particular resource. 
             Datasette's built-in view permissions ( view-database ,  view-table  etc) default to  allow  - unless you  configure additional permission rules  unauthenticated users will be allowed to access content. 
             Permissions with potentially harmful effects should default to  deny . Plugin authors should account for this when designing new plugins - for example, the  datasette-upload-csvs  plugin defaults to deny so that installations don't accidentally allow unauthenticated users to create new tables by uploading a CSV file.","[""Authentication and permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-upload-csvs"", ""label"": ""datasette-upload-csvs""}]"
facets:id1,facets,id1,Facets,"Datasette facets can be used to add a faceted browse interface to any database table.
            With facets, tables are displayed along with a summary showing the most common values in specified columns.
            These values can be selected to further filter the table. 
         Here's  an example : 
         
         Facets can be specified in two ways: using query string parameters, or in  metadata.json  configuration for the table.",[],"[{""href"": ""https://congress-legislators.datasettes.com/legislators/legislator_terms?_facet=type&_facet=party&_facet=state&_facet_size=10"", ""label"": ""an example""}]"
javascript_plugins:javascript-datasette-init,javascript_plugins,javascript-datasette-init,The datasette_init event,"Datasette emits a custom event called  datasette_init  when the page is loaded. This event is dispatched on the  document  object, and includes a  detail  object with a reference to the  datasetteManager  object. 
             Your JavaScript code can listen out for this event using  document.addEventListener()  like this: 
             document.addEventListener(""datasette_init"", function (evt) {
    const manager = evt.detail;
    console.log(""Datasette version:"", manager.VERSION);
});","[""JavaScript plugins""]",[]
authentication:authentication,authentication,authentication,Authentication and permissions,"Datasette doesn't require authentication by default. Any visitor to a Datasette instance can explore the full data and execute read-only SQL queries. 
         Datasette's plugin system can be used to add many different styles of authentication, such as user accounts, single sign-on or API keys.",[],[]
changelog:smaller-changes,changelog,smaller-changes,Smaller changes,"Datasette documentation now shows YAML examples for  Metadata  by default, with a tab interface for switching to JSON. ( #1153 ) 
                     
                     
                         register_output_renderer(datasette)  plugins now have access to  error  and  truncated  arguments, allowing them to display error messages and take into account truncated results. ( #2130 ) 
                     
                     
                         render_cell()  plugin hook now also supports an optional  request  argument. ( #2007 ) 
                     
                     
                         New  Justfile  to support development workflows for Datasette using  Just . 
                     
                     
                         datasette.render_template()  can now accepts a  datasette.views.Context  subclass as an alternative to a dictionary. ( #2127 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette install -e path  option for editable installations, useful while developing plugins. ( #2106 ) 
                     
                     
                         When started with the  --cors  option Datasette now serves an  Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600  header, ensuring CORS OPTIONS requests are repeated no more than once an hour. ( #2079 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed a bug where the  _internal  database could display  None  instead of  null  for in-memory databases. ( #1970 )","[""Changelog"", ""1.0a3 (2023-08-09)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1153"", ""label"": ""#1153""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2130"", ""label"": ""#2130""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2007"", ""label"": ""#2007""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/casey/just"", ""label"": ""Just""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2127"", ""label"": ""#2127""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2106"", ""label"": ""#2106""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2079"", ""label"": ""#2079""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1970"", ""label"": ""#1970""}]"
changelog:id52,changelog,id52,0.48 (2020-08-16),"Datasette documentation now lives at  docs.datasette.io . 
                 
                 
                     db.is_mutable  property is now documented and tested, see  Database introspection . 
                 
                 
                     The  extra_template_vars ,  extra_css_urls ,  extra_js_urls  and  extra_body_script  plugin hooks now all accept the same arguments. See  extra_template_vars(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette)  for details. ( #939 ) 
                 
                 
                     Those hooks now accept a new  columns  argument detailing the table columns that will be rendered on that page. ( #938 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where plugins calling  db.execute_write_fn()  could hang Datasette if the connection failed. ( #935 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug with the  ?_nl=on  output option and binary data. ( #914 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""docs.datasette.io""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/939"", ""label"": ""#939""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/938"", ""label"": ""#938""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/935"", ""label"": ""#935""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/914"", ""label"": ""#914""}]"
plugins:plugins-datasette-load-plugins,plugins,plugins-datasette-load-plugins,Controlling which plugins are loaded,"Datasette defaults to loading every plugin that is installed in the same virtual environment as Datasette itself. 
             You can set the  DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS  environment variable to a comma-separated list of plugin names to load a controlled subset of plugins instead. 
             For example, to load just the  datasette-vega  and  datasette-cluster-map  plugins, set  DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS  to  datasette-vega,datasette-cluster-map : 
             export DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS='datasette-vega,datasette-cluster-map'
datasette mydb.db 
             Or: 
             DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS='datasette-vega,datasette-cluster-map' \
  datasette mydb.db 
             To disable the loading of all additional plugins, set  DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS  to an empty string: 
             export DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS=''
datasette mydb.db 
             A quick way to test this setting is to use it with the  datasette plugins  command: 
             DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS='datasette-vega' datasette plugins 
             This should output the following: 
             [
    {
        ""name"": ""datasette-vega"",
        ""static"": true,
        ""templates"": false,
        ""version"": ""0.6.2"",
        ""hooks"": [
            ""extra_css_urls"",
            ""extra_js_urls""
        ]
    }
]","[""Plugins""]",[]
metadata:metadata-page-size,metadata,metadata-page-size,Setting a custom page size,"Datasette defaults to displaying 100 rows per page, for both tables and views. You can change this default page size on a per-table or per-view basis using the  ""size""  key in  metadata.json : 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""mydatabase"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""size"": 10
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             This size can still be over-ridden by passing e.g.  ?_size=50  in the query string.","[""Metadata""]",[]
authentication:authentication-permissions-execute-sql,authentication,authentication-permissions-execute-sql,Controlling the ability to execute arbitrary SQL,"Datasette defaults to allowing any site visitor to execute their own custom SQL queries, for example using the form on  the database page  or by appending a  ?_where=  parameter to the table page  like this . 
                 Access to this ability is controlled by the  execute-sql  permission. 
                 The easiest way to disable arbitrary SQL queries is using the  default_allow_sql setting  when you first start Datasette running. 
                 You can alternatively use an  ""allow_sql""  block to control who is allowed to execute arbitrary SQL queries. 
                 To prevent any user from executing arbitrary SQL queries, use this: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    allow_sql: false
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 To enable just the  root user  to execute SQL for all databases in your instance, use the following: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    allow_sql:
      id: root
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 To limit this ability for just one specific database, use this: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    databases:
      mydatabase:
        allow_sql:
          id: root
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]]","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Access permissions in ""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures"", ""label"": ""the database page""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_where=_city_id=1"", ""label"": ""like this""}]"
authentication:authentication-root,authentication,authentication-root,"Using the ""root"" actor","Datasette currently leaves almost all forms of authentication to plugins -  datasette-auth-github  for example. 
                 The one exception is the ""root"" account, which you can sign into while using Datasette on your local machine. This provides access to a small number of debugging features. 
                 To sign in as root, start Datasette using the  --root  command-line option, like this: 
                 datasette --root 
                 http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/auth-token?token=786fc524e0199d70dc9a581d851f466244e114ca92f33aa3b42a139e9388daa7
INFO:     Started server process [25801]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8001 (Press CTRL+C to quit) 
                 The URL on the first line includes a one-use token which can be used to sign in as the ""root"" actor in your browser. Click on that link and then visit  http://127.0.0.1:8001/-/actor  to confirm that you are authenticated as an actor that looks like this: 
                 {
    ""id"": ""root""
}","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Actors""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-auth-github"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-github""}]"
custom_templates:customization-static-files,custom_templates,customization-static-files,Serving static files,"Datasette can serve static files for you, using the  --static  option.
                Consider the following directory structure: 
             metadata.json
static-files/styles.css
static-files/app.js 
             You can start Datasette using  --static assets:static-files/  to serve those
                files from the  /assets/  mount point: 
             datasette --config datasette.yaml --static assets:static-files/ --memory 
             The following URLs will now serve the content from those CSS and JS files: 
             http://localhost:8001/assets/styles.css
http://localhost:8001/assets/app.js 
             You can reference those files from  datasette.yaml  like this, see  custom CSS and JavaScript  for more details: 
             [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
config_example(cog, """"""
    extra_css_urls:
    - /assets/styles.css
    extra_js_urls:
    - /assets/app.js
"""""") 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Custom pages and templates""]",[]
javascript_plugins:id1,javascript_plugins,id1,JavaScript plugins,"Datasette can run custom JavaScript in several different ways: 
         
             
                 Datasette plugins written in Python can use the  extra_js_urls()  or  extra_body_script()  plugin hooks to inject JavaScript into a page 
             
             
                 Datasette instances with  custom templates  can include additional JavaScript in those templates 
             
             
                 The  extra_js_urls  key in  datasette.yaml   can be used to include extra JavaScript 
             
         
         There are no limitations on what this JavaScript can do. It is executed directly by the browser, so it can manipulate the DOM, fetch additional data and do anything else that JavaScript is capable of. 
         
             Custom JavaScript has security implications, especially for authenticated Datasette instances where the JavaScript might run in the context of the authenticated user. It's important to carefully review any JavaScript you run in your Datasette instance.",[],[]
changelog:id13,changelog,id13,0.62 (2022-08-14),"Datasette can now run entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Try out  Datasette Lite , take a look  at the code  or read more about it in  Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser . 
             Datasette now has a  Discord community  for questions and discussions about Datasette and its ecosystem of projects.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://lite.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Lite""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite"", ""label"": ""at the code""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/4/datasette-lite/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/discord"", ""label"": ""Discord community""}]"
changelog:id36,changelog,id36,Other changes,"Datasette can now open multiple database files with the same name, e.g. if you run  datasette path/to/one.db path/to/other/one.db . ( #509 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette publish cloudrun  now sets  force_https_urls  for every deployment, fixing some incorrect  http://  links. ( #1178 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed a bug in the example nginx configuration in  Running Datasette behind a proxy . ( #1091 ) 
                     
                     
                         The  Datasette Ecosystem  documentation page has been reduced in size in favour of the  datasette.io   tools  and  plugins  directories. ( #1182 ) 
                     
                     
                         The request object now provides a  request.full_path  property, which returns the path including any query string. ( #1184 ) 
                     
                     
                         Better error message for disallowed  PRAGMA  clauses in SQL queries. ( #1185 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette publish heroku  now deploys using  python-3.8.7 . 
                     
                     
                         New plugin testing documentation on  Testing outbound HTTP calls with pytest-httpx . ( #1198 ) 
                     
                     
                         All  ?_*  query string parameters passed to the table page are now persisted in hidden form fields, so parameters such as  ?_size=10  will be correctly passed to the next page when query filters are changed. ( #1194 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed a bug loading a database file called  test-database (1).sqlite . ( #1181 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.54 (2021-01-25)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/509"", ""label"": ""#509""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1178"", ""label"": ""#1178""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1091"", ""label"": ""#1091""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tools"", ""label"": ""tools""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins"", ""label"": ""plugins""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1182"", ""label"": ""#1182""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1184"", ""label"": ""#1184""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1185"", ""label"": ""#1185""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1198"", ""label"": ""#1198""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1194"", ""label"": ""#1194""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1181"", ""label"": ""#1181""}]"
configuration:configuration-reference-css-js,configuration,configuration-reference-css-js,Custom CSS and JavaScript,"Datasette can load additional CSS and JavaScript files, configured in  datasette.yaml  like this: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example
config_example(cog, """"""
    extra_css_urls:
    - https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css
    extra_js_urls:
    - https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 The extra CSS and JavaScript files will be linked in the  <head>  of every page: 
                 <link rel=""stylesheet"" href=""https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css"">
<script src=""https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js""></script> 
                 You can also specify a SRI (subresource integrity hash) for these assets: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    extra_css_urls:
    - url: https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css
      sri: sha384-9qIZekWUyjCyDIf2YK1FRoKiPJq4PHt6tp/ulnuuyRBvazd0hG7pWbE99zvwSznI
    extra_js_urls:
    - url: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js
      sri: sha256-k2WSCIexGzOj3Euiig+TlR8gA0EmPjuc79OEeY5L45g=
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 This will produce: 
                 <link rel=""stylesheet"" href=""https://simonwillison.net/static/css/all.bf8cd891642c.css""
    integrity=""sha384-9qIZekWUyjCyDIf2YK1FRoKiPJq4PHt6tp/ulnuuyRBvazd0hG7pWbE99zvwSznI""
    crossorigin=""anonymous"">
<script src=""https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js""
    integrity=""sha256-k2WSCIexGzOj3Euiig+TlR8gA0EmPjuc79OEeY5L45g=""
    crossorigin=""anonymous""></script> 
                 Modern browsers will only execute the stylesheet or JavaScript if the SRI hash
                    matches the content served. You can generate hashes using  www.srihash.org 
                 Items in  ""extra_js_urls""  can specify  ""module"": true  if they reference JavaScript that uses  JavaScript modules . This configuration: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    extra_js_urls:
    - url: https://example.datasette.io/module.js
      module: true
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Will produce this HTML: 
                 <script type=""module"" src=""https://example.datasette.io/module.js""></script>","[""Configuration"", null]","[{""href"": ""https://www.srihash.org/"", ""label"": ""www.srihash.org""}, {""href"": ""https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules"", ""label"": ""JavaScript modules""}]"
json_api:expand-foreign-keys,json_api,expand-foreign-keys,Expanding foreign key references,"Datasette can detect foreign key relationships and resolve those references into
                labels. The HTML interface does this by default for every detected foreign key
                column - you can turn that off using  ?_labels=off . 
             You can request foreign keys be expanded in JSON using the  _labels=on  or
                 _label=COLUMN  special query string parameters. Here's what an expanded row
                looks like: 
             [
    {
        ""rowid"": 1,
        ""TreeID"": 141565,
        ""qLegalStatus"": {
            ""value"": 1,
            ""label"": ""Permitted Site""
        },
        ""qSpecies"": {
            ""value"": 1,
            ""label"": ""Myoporum laetum :: Myoporum""
        },
        ""qAddress"": ""501X Baker St"",
        ""SiteOrder"": 1
    }
] 
             The column in the foreign key table that is used for the label can be specified
                in  metadata.json  - see  Specifying the label column for a table .","[""JSON API""]",[]
deploying:deploying-fundamentals,deploying,deploying-fundamentals,Deployment fundamentals,"Datasette can be deployed as a single  datasette  process that listens on a port. Datasette is not designed to be run as root, so that process should listen on a higher port such as port 8000. 
             If you want to serve Datasette on port 80 (the HTTP default port) or port 443 (for HTTPS) you should run it behind a proxy server, such as nginx, Apache or HAProxy. The proxy server can listen on port 80/443 and forward traffic on to Datasette.","[""Deploying Datasette""]",[]
contributing:contributing-upgrading-codemirror,contributing,contributing-upgrading-codemirror,Upgrading CodeMirror,"Datasette bundles  CodeMirror  for the SQL editing interface, e.g. on  this page . Here are the steps for upgrading to a new version of CodeMirror: 
             
                 
                     Install the packages with: 
                     npm i codemirror @codemirror/lang-sql 
                 
                 
                     Build the bundle using the version number from package.json with: 
                     node_modules/.bin/rollup datasette/static/cm-editor-6.0.1.js \
  -f iife \
  -n cm \
  -o datasette/static/cm-editor-6.0.1.bundle.js \
  -p @rollup/plugin-node-resolve \
  -p @rollup/plugin-terser 
                 
                 
                     Update the version reference in the  codemirror.html  template.","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://codemirror.net/"", ""label"": ""CodeMirror""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures"", ""label"": ""this page""}]"
changelog:permissions,changelog,permissions,Permissions,"Datasette also now has a built-in concept of  Permissions . The permissions system answers the following question: 
                 
                     Is this  actor  allowed to perform this  action , optionally against this particular  resource ? 
                 
                 You can use the new  ""allow""  block syntax in  metadata.json  (or  metadata.yaml ) to set required permissions at the instance, database, table or canned query level. For example, to restrict access to the  fixtures.db  database to the  ""root""  user: 
                 {
    ""databases"": {
        ""fixtures"": {
            ""allow"": {
                ""id"" ""root""
            }
        }
    }
} 
                 See  Defining permissions with ""allow"" blocks  for more details. 
                 Plugins can implement their own custom permission checks using the new  permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource)  hook. 
                 A new debug page at  /-/permissions  shows recent permission checks, to help administrators and plugin authors understand exactly what checks are being performed. This tool defaults to only being available to the root user, but can be exposed to other users by plugins that respond to the  permissions-debug  permission. ( #788 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/788"", ""label"": ""#788""}]"
metadata:metadata-sortable-columns,metadata,metadata-sortable-columns,Setting which columns can be used for sorting,"Datasette allows any column to be used for sorting by default. If you need to
                control which columns are available for sorting you can do so using the optional
                 sortable_columns  key: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""database1"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""sortable_columns"": [
                        ""height"",
                        ""weight""
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             This will restrict sorting of  example_table  to just the  height  and
                 weight  columns. 
             You can also disable sorting entirely by setting  ""sortable_columns"": [] 
             You can use  sortable_columns  to enable specific sort orders for a view called  name_of_view  in the database  my_database  like so: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""my_database"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""name_of_view"": {
                    ""sortable_columns"": [
                        ""clicks"",
                        ""impressions""
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Metadata""]",[]
changelog:code-formatting-with-black-and-prettier,changelog,code-formatting-with-black-and-prettier,Code formatting with Black and Prettier,"Datasette adopted  Black  for opinionated Python code formatting in June 2019. Datasette now also embraces  Prettier  for JavaScript formatting, which like Black is enforced by tests in continuous integration. Instructions for using these two tools can be found in the new section on  Code formatting  in the contributors documentation. ( #1167 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.54 (2021-01-25)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/psf/black"", ""label"": ""Black""}, {""href"": ""https://prettier.io/"", ""label"": ""Prettier""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1167"", ""label"": ""#1167""}]"
getting_started:getting-started-datasette-lite,getting_started,getting-started-datasette-lite,Datasette in your browser with Datasette Lite,"Datasette Lite  is Datasette packaged using WebAssembly so that it runs entirely in your browser, no Python web application server required. 
             You can pass a URL to a CSV, SQLite or raw SQL file directly to Datasette Lite to explore that data in your browser. 
             This  example link  opens Datasette Lite and loads the SQL Murder Mystery example database from  Northwestern University Knight Lab .","[""Getting started""]","[{""href"": ""https://lite.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Lite""}, {""href"": ""https://lite.datasette.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FNUKnightLab%2Fsql-mysteries%2Fmaster%2Fsql-murder-mystery.db#/sql-murder-mystery"", ""label"": ""example link""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries"", ""label"": ""Northwestern University Knight Lab""}]"
installation:installation-datasette-desktop,installation,installation-datasette-desktop,Datasette Desktop for Mac,Datasette Desktop  is a packaged Mac application which bundles Datasette together with Python and allows you to install and run Datasette directly on your laptop. This is the best option for local installation if you are not comfortable using the command line.,"[""Installation"", ""Basic installation""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/desktop"", ""label"": ""Datasette Desktop""}]"
plugin_hooks:id1,plugin_hooks,id1,Plugin hooks,"Datasette  plugins  use  plugin hooks  to customize Datasette's behavior. These hooks are powered by the  pluggy  plugin system. 
         Each plugin can implement one or more hooks using the  @hookimpl  decorator against a function named that matches one of the hooks documented on this page. 
         When you implement a plugin hook you can accept any or all of the parameters that are documented as being passed to that hook. 
         For example, you can implement the  render_cell  plugin hook like this even though the full documented hook signature is  render_cell(row, value, column, table, database, datasette) : 
         @hookimpl
def render_cell(value, column):
    if column == ""stars"":
        return ""*"" * int(value) 
         
             List of plugin hooks 
             
                 
                     prepare_connection(conn, database, datasette) 
                 
                 
                     prepare_jinja2_environment(env, datasette) 
                 
                 
                     Page extras 
                     
                         
                             extra_template_vars(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) 
                         
                         
                             extra_css_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) 
                         
                         
                             extra_js_urls(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) 
                         
                         
                             extra_body_script(template, database, table, columns, view_name, request, datasette) 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     publish_subcommand(publish) 
                 
                 
                     render_cell(row, value, column, table, database, datasette, request) 
                 
                 
                     register_output_renderer(datasette) 
                 
                 
                     register_routes(datasette) 
                 
                 
                     register_commands(cli) 
                 
                 
                     register_facet_classes() 
                 
                 
                     register_permissions(datasette) 
                 
                 
                     asgi_wrapper(datasette) 
                 
                 
                     startup(datasette) 
                 
                 
                     canned_queries(datasette, database, actor) 
                 
                 
                     actor_from_request(datasette, request) 
                 
                 
                     actors_from_ids(datasette, actor_ids) 
                 
                 
                     jinja2_environment_from_request(datasette, request, env) 
                 
                 
                     filters_from_request(request, database, table, datasette) 
                 
                 
                     permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource) 
                 
                 
                     register_magic_parameters(datasette) 
                 
                 
                     forbidden(datasette, request, message) 
                 
                 
                     handle_exception(datasette, request, exception) 
                 
                 
                     skip_csrf(datasette, scope) 
                 
                 
                     get_metadata(datasette, key, database, table) 
                 
                 
                     menu_links(datasette, actor, request) 
                 
                 
                     Action hooks 
                     
                         
                             table_actions(datasette, actor, database, table, request) 
                         
                         
                             view_actions(datasette, actor, database, view, request) 
                         
                         
                             query_actions(datasette, actor, database, query_name, request, sql, params) 
                         
                         
                             row_actions(datasette, actor, request, database, table, row) 
                         
                         
                             database_actions(datasette, actor, database, request) 
                         
                         
                             homepage_actions(datasette, actor, request) 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     Template slots 
                     
                         
                             top_homepage(datasette, request) 
                         
                         
                             top_database(datasette, request, database) 
                         
                         
                             top_table(datasette, request, database, table) 
                         
                         
                             top_row(datasette, request, database, table, row) 
                         
                         
                             top_query(datasette, request, database, sql) 
                         
                         
                             top_canned_query(datasette, request, database, query_name) 
                         
                     
                 
                 
                     Event tracking 
                     
                         
                             track_event(datasette, event) 
                         
                         
                             register_events(datasette)",[],"[{""href"": ""https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""pluggy""}]"
changelog:id65,changelog,id65,0.40 (2020-04-21),"Datasette  Metadata  can now be provided as a YAML file as an optional alternative to JSON. ( #713 ) 
                 
                 
                     Removed support for  datasette publish now , which used the the now-retired Zeit Now v1 hosting platform. A new plugin,  datasette-publish-now , can be installed to publish data to Zeit ( now Vercel ) Now v2. ( #710 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a bug where the  extra_template_vars(request, view_name)  plugin hook was not receiving the correct  view_name . ( #716 ) 
                 
                 
                     Variables added to the template context by the  extra_template_vars()  plugin hook are now shown in the  ?_context=1  debugging mode (see  template_debug ). ( #693 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a bug where the ""templates considered"" HTML comment was no longer being displayed. ( #689 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed a  datasette publish  bug where  --plugin-secret  would over-ride plugin configuration in the provided  metadata.json  file. ( #724 ) 
                 
                 
                     Added a new CSS class for customizing the canned query page. ( #727 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/713"", ""label"": ""#713""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-now"", ""label"": ""datasette-publish-now""}, {""href"": ""https://vercel.com/blog/zeit-is-now-vercel"", ""label"": ""now Vercel""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/710"", ""label"": ""#710""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/716"", ""label"": ""#716""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/693"", ""label"": ""#693""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/689"", ""label"": ""#689""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/724"", ""label"": ""#724""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/727"", ""label"": ""#727""}]"
changelog:v0-28-faceting,changelog,v0-28-faceting,"Faceting improvements, and faceting plugins","Datasette  Facets  provide an intuitive way to quickly summarize and interact with data. Previously the only supported faceting technique was column faceting, but 0.28 introduces two powerful new capabilities: facet-by-JSON-array and the ability to define further facet types using plugins. 
                 Facet by array ( #359 ) is only available if your SQLite installation provides the  json1  extension. Datasette will automatically detect columns that contain JSON arrays of values and offer a faceting interface against those columns - useful for modelling things like tags without needing to break them out into a new table. See  Facet by JSON array  for more. 
                 The new  register_facet_classes()  plugin hook ( #445 ) can be used to register additional custom facet classes. Each facet class should provide two methods:  suggest()  which suggests facet selections that might be appropriate for a provided SQL query, and  facet_results()  which executes a facet operation and returns results. Datasette's own faceting implementations have been refactored to use the same API as these plugins.","[""Changelog"", ""0.28 (2019-05-19)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/359"", ""label"": ""#359""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/445"", ""label"": ""#445""}]"
changelog:small-changes,changelog,small-changes,Small changes,"Databases published using  datasette publish  now open in  Immutable mode . ( #469 ) 
                     
                     
                         ?col__date=  now works for columns containing spaces 
                     
                     
                         Automatic label detection (for deciding which column to show when linking to a foreign key) has been improved. ( #485 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed bug where pagination broke when combined with an expanded foreign key. ( #489 ) 
                     
                     
                         Contributors can now run  pip install -e .[docs]  to get all of the dependencies needed to build the documentation, including  cd docs && make livehtml  support. 
                     
                     
                         Datasette's dependencies are now all specified using the  ~=  match operator. ( #532 ) 
                     
                     
                         white-space: pre-wrap  now used for table creation SQL. ( #505 ) 
                     
                 
                 Full list of commits  between 0.28 and 0.29.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/469"", ""label"": ""#469""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/485"", ""label"": ""#485""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/489"", ""label"": ""#489""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/532"", ""label"": ""#532""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/505"", ""label"": ""#505""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/compare/0.28...0.29"", ""label"": ""Full list of commits""}]"
metadata:id1,metadata,id1,Metadata,"Data loves metadata. Any time you run Datasette you can optionally include a
            YAML or JSON file with metadata about your databases and tables. Datasette will then
            display that information in the web UI. 
         Run Datasette like this: 
         datasette database1.db database2.db --metadata metadata.yaml 
         Your  metadata.yaml  file can look something like this: 
         [[[cog
from metadata_doc import metadata_example
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""title"": ""Custom title for your index page"",
    ""description"": ""Some description text can go here"",
    ""license"": ""ODbL"",
    ""license_url"": ""https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/"",
    ""source"": ""Original Data Source"",
    ""source_url"": ""http://example.com/""
}) 
         ]]] 
         [[[end]]] 
         Choosing YAML over JSON adds support for multi-line strings and comments. 
         The above metadata will be displayed on the index page of your Datasette-powered
            site. The source and license information will also be included in the footer of
            every page served by Datasette. 
         Any special HTML characters in  description  will be escaped. If you want to
            include HTML in your description, you can use a  description_html  property
            instead.",[],[]
custom_templates:custom-pages-headers,custom_templates,custom-pages-headers,Custom headers and status codes,"Custom pages default to being served with a content-type of  text/html; charset=utf-8  and a  200  status code. You can change these by calling a custom function from within your template. 
             For example, to serve a custom page with a  418 I'm a teapot  HTTP status code, create a file in  pages/teapot.html  containing the following: 
             {{ custom_status(418) }}
<html>
<head><title>Teapot</title></head>
<body>
I'm a teapot
</body>
</html> 
             To serve a custom HTTP header, add a  custom_header(name, value)  function call. For example: 
             {{ custom_status(418) }}
{{ custom_header(""x-teapot"", ""I am"") }}
<html>
<head><title>Teapot</title></head>
<body>
I'm a teapot
</body>
</html> 
             You can verify this is working using  curl  like this: 
             curl -I 'http://127.0.0.1:8001/teapot'
HTTP/1.1 418
date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:38:30 GMT
server: uvicorn
x-teapot: I am
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8","[""Custom pages and templates""]",[]
changelog:bug-fixes-and-other-improvements,changelog,bug-fixes-and-other-improvements,Bug fixes and other improvements,"Custom pages  now work correctly when combined with the  base_url  setting. ( #1238 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed intermittent error displaying the index page when the user did not have permission to access one of the tables. Thanks, Guy Freeman. ( #1305 ) 
                     
                     
                         Columns with the name ""Link"" are no longer incorrectly displayed in bold. ( #1308 ) 
                     
                     
                         Fixed error caused by tables with a single quote in their names. ( #1257 ) 
                     
                     
                         Updated dependencies:  pytest-asyncio ,  Black ,  jinja2 ,  aiofiles ,  click , and  itsdangerous . 
                     
                     
                         The official Datasette Docker image now supports  apt-get install . ( #1320 ) 
                     
                     
                         The Heroku runtime used by  datasette publish heroku  is now  python-3.8.10 .","[""Changelog"", ""0.57 (2021-06-05)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1238"", ""label"": ""#1238""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1305"", ""label"": ""#1305""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1308"", ""label"": ""#1308""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1257"", ""label"": ""#1257""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1320"", ""label"": ""#1320""}]"
cli-reference:cli-help-create-token-help,cli-reference,cli-help-create-token-help,datasette create-token,"Create a signed API token, see  datasette create-token . 
             [[[cog
help([""create-token"", ""--help""]) 
             ]]] 
             Usage: datasette create-token [OPTIONS] ID

  Create a signed API token for the specified actor ID

  Example:

      datasette create-token root --secret mysecret

  To allow only ""view-database-download"" for all databases:

      datasette create-token root --secret mysecret \
          --all view-database-download

  To allow ""create-table"" against a specific database:

      datasette create-token root --secret mysecret \
          --database mydb create-table

  To allow ""insert-row"" against a specific table:

      datasette create-token root --secret myscret \
          --resource mydb mytable insert-row

  Restricted actions can be specified multiple times using multiple --all,
  --database, and --resource options.

  Add --debug to see a decoded version of the token.

Options:
  --secret TEXT                   Secret used for signing the API tokens
                                  [required]
  -e, --expires-after INTEGER     Token should expire after this many seconds
  -a, --all ACTION                Restrict token to this action
  -d, --database DB ACTION        Restrict token to this action on this database
  -r, --resource DB RESOURCE ACTION
                                  Restrict token to this action on this database
                                  resource (a table, SQL view or named query)
  --debug                         Show decoded token
  --plugins-dir DIRECTORY         Path to directory containing custom plugins
  --help                          Show this message and exit. 
             [[[end]]]","[""CLI reference""]",[]
performance:performance-inspect,performance,performance-inspect,"Using ""datasette inspect""","Counting the rows in a table can be a very expensive operation on larger databases. In immutable mode Datasette performs this count only once and caches the results, but this can still cause server startup time to increase by several seconds or more. 
             If you know that a database is never going to change you can precalculate the table row counts once and store then in a JSON file, then use that file when you later start the server. 
             To create a JSON file containing the calculated row counts for a database, use the following: 
             datasette inspect data.db --inspect-file=counts.json 
             Then later you can start Datasette against the  counts.json  file and use it to skip the row counting step and speed up server startup: 
             datasette -i data.db --inspect-file=counts.json 
             You need to use the  -i  immutable mode against the database file here or the counts from the JSON file will be ignored. 
             You will rarely need to use this optimization in every-day use, but several of the  datasette publish  commands described in  Publishing data  use this optimization for better performance when deploying a database file to a hosting provider.","[""Performance and caching""]",[]
authentication:permissions-debug-menu,authentication,permissions-debug-menu,debug-menu,"Controls if the various debug pages are displayed in the navigation menu. 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
changelog:id26,changelog,id26,0.59 (2021-10-14),"Columns can now have associated metadata descriptions in  metadata.json , see  Column descriptions . ( #942 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  register_commands()  plugin hook allows plugins to register additional Datasette CLI commands, e.g.  datasette mycommand file.db . ( #1449 ) 
                 
                 
                     Adding  ?_facet_size=max  to a table page now shows the number of unique values in each facet. ( #1423 ) 
                 
                 
                     Upgraded dependency  httpx 0.20  - the undocumented  allow_redirects=  parameter to  datasette.client  is now  follow_redirects= , and defaults to  False  where it previously defaulted to  True . ( #1488 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  --cors  option now causes Datasette to return the  Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization  header, in addition to  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * . ( #1467 ) 
                 
                 
                     Code that figures out which named parameters a SQL query takes in order to display form fields for them is no longer confused by strings that contain colon characters. ( #1421 ) 
                 
                 
                     Renamed  --help-config  option to  --help-settings . ( #1431 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette.databases  property is now a documented API. ( #1443 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  base.html  template now wraps everything other than the  <footer>  in a  <div class=""not-footer"">  element, to help with advanced CSS customization. ( #1446 ) 
                 
                 
                     The  render_cell()  plugin hook can now return an awaitable function. This means the hook can execute SQL queries. ( #1425 ) 
                 
                 
                     register_routes(datasette)  plugin hook now accepts an optional  datasette  argument. ( #1404 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  hide_sql  canned query option for defaulting to hiding the SQL query used by a canned query, see  Additional canned query options . ( #1422 ) 
                 
                 
                     New  --cpu  option for  datasette publish cloudrun . ( #1420 ) 
                 
                 
                     If  Rich  is installed in the same virtual environment as Datasette, it will be used to provide enhanced display of error tracebacks on the console. ( #1416 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasette.utils   parse_metadata(content)  function, used by the new  datasette-remote-metadata plugin , is now a documented API. ( #1405 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where  ?_next=x&_sort=rowid  could throw an error. ( #1470 ) 
                 
                 
                     Column cog menu no longer shows the option to facet by a column that is already selected by the default facets in metadata. ( #1469 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/942"", ""label"": ""#942""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1449"", ""label"": ""#1449""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1423"", ""label"": ""#1423""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/encode/httpx/releases/tag/0.20.0"", ""label"": ""httpx 0.20""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1488"", ""label"": ""#1488""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1467"", ""label"": ""#1467""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1421"", ""label"": ""#1421""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1431"", ""label"": ""#1431""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1443"", ""label"": ""#1443""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1446"", ""label"": ""#1446""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1425"", ""label"": ""#1425""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1404"", ""label"": ""#1404""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1422"", ""label"": ""#1422""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1420"", ""label"": ""#1420""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich"", ""label"": ""Rich""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1416"", ""label"": ""#1416""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-remote-metadata"", ""label"": ""datasette-remote-metadata plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1405"", ""label"": ""#1405""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1470"", ""label"": ""#1470""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1469"", ""label"": ""#1469""}]"
changelog:id24,changelog,id24,0.59.2 (2021-11-13),"Column names with a leading underscore now work correctly when used as a facet. ( #1506 ) 
                 
                 
                     Applying  ?_nocol=  to a column no longer removes that column from the filtering interface. ( #1503 ) 
                 
                 
                     Official Datasette Docker container now uses Debian Bullseye as the base image. ( #1497 ) 
                 
                 
                     Datasette is four years old today! Here's the  original release announcement  from 2017.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1506"", ""label"": ""#1506""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1503"", ""label"": ""#1503""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1497"", ""label"": ""#1497""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2017/Nov/13/datasette/"", ""label"": ""original release announcement""}]"
internals:database-close,internals,database-close,db.close(),"Closes all of the open connections to file-backed databases. This is mainly intended to be used by large test suites, to avoid hitting limits on the number of open files.","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Database class""]",[]
changelog:id59,changelog,id59,Smaller changes,"Cascading view permissions - so if a user has  view-table  they can view the table page even if they do not have  view-database  or  view-instance . ( #832 ) 
                     
                     
                         CSRF protection no longer applies to  Authentication: Bearer token  requests or requests without cookies. ( #835 ) 
                     
                     
                         datasette.add_message()  now works inside plugins. ( #864 ) 
                     
                     
                         Workaround for ""Too many open files"" error in test runs. ( #846 ) 
                     
                     
                         Respect existing  scope[""actor""]  if already set by ASGI middleware. ( #854 ) 
                     
                     
                         New process for shipping  Alpha and beta releases . ( #807 ) 
                     
                     
                         {{ csrftoken() }}  now works when plugins render a template using  datasette.render_template(..., request=request) . ( #863 ) 
                     
                     
                         Datasette now creates a single  Request object  and uses it throughout the lifetime of the current HTTP request. ( #870 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.45 (2020-07-01)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/832"", ""label"": ""#832""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/835"", ""label"": ""#835""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/864"", ""label"": ""#864""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/846"", ""label"": ""#846""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/854"", ""label"": ""#854""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/807"", ""label"": ""#807""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/863"", ""label"": ""#863""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/870"", ""label"": ""#870""}]"
sql_queries:canned-queries-named-parameters,sql_queries,canned-queries-named-parameters,Canned query parameters,"Canned queries support named parameters, so if you include those in the SQL you will then be able to enter them using the form fields on the canned query page or by adding them to the URL. This means canned queries can be used to create custom JSON APIs based on a carefully designed SQL statement. 
                 Here's an example of a canned query with a named parameter: 
                 select neighborhood, facet_cities.name, state
from facetable
  join facet_cities on facetable.city_id = facet_cities.id
where neighborhood like '%' || :text || '%'
order by neighborhood; 
                 In the canned query configuration looks like this: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
databases:
  fixtures:
    queries:
      neighborhood_search:
        title: Search neighborhoods
        sql: |-
          select neighborhood, facet_cities.name, state
          from facetable
            join facet_cities on facetable.city_id = facet_cities.id
          where neighborhood like '%' || :text || '%'
          order by neighborhood
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 Note that we are using SQLite string concatenation here - the  ||  operator - to add wildcard  %  characters to the string provided by the user. 
                 You can try this canned query out here:
                     https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/neighborhood_search?text=town 
                 In this example the  :text  named parameter is automatically extracted from the query using a regular expression. 
                 You can alternatively provide an explicit list of named parameters using the  ""params""  key, like this: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
databases:
  fixtures:
    queries:
      neighborhood_search:
        title: Search neighborhoods
        params:
        - text
        sql: |-
          select neighborhood, facet_cities.name, state
          from facetable
            join facet_cities on facetable.city_id = facet_cities.id
          where neighborhood like '%' || :text || '%'
          order by neighborhood
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]]","[""Running SQL queries"", ""Canned queries""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/neighborhood_search?text=town"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/neighborhood_search?text=town""}]"
changelog:magic-parameters-for-canned-queries,changelog,magic-parameters-for-canned-queries,Magic parameters for canned queries,"Canned queries now support  Magic parameters , which can be used to insert or select automatically generated values. For example: 
                 insert into logs
  (user_id, timestamp)
values
  (:_actor_id, :_now_datetime_utc) 
                 This inserts the currently authenticated actor ID and the current datetime. ( #842 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.45 (2020-07-01)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/842"", ""label"": ""#842""}]"
sql_queries:hide-sql,sql_queries,hide-sql,hide_sql,"Canned queries default to displaying their SQL query at the top of the page. If the query is extremely long you may want to hide it by default, with a ""show"" link that can be used to make it visible. 
                     Add the  ""hide_sql"": true  option to hide the SQL query by default.","[""Running SQL queries"", ""Canned queries"", ""Additional canned query options""]",[]
sql_queries:canned-queries-writable,sql_queries,canned-queries-writable,Writable canned queries,"Canned queries by default are read-only. You can use the  ""write"": true  key to indicate that a canned query can write to the database. 
                 See  Access to specific canned queries  for details on how to add permission checks to canned queries, using the  ""allow""  key. 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""mydatabase"": {
            ""queries"": {
                ""add_name"": {
                    ""sql"": ""INSERT INTO names (name) VALUES (:name)"",
                    ""write"": True
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 This configuration will create a page at  /mydatabase/add_name  displaying a form with a  name  field. Submitting that form will execute the configured  INSERT  query. 
                 You can customize how Datasette represents success and errors using the following optional properties: 
                 
                     
                         on_success_message  - the message shown when a query is successful 
                     
                     
                         on_success_message_sql  - alternative to  on_success_message : a SQL query that should be executed to generate the message 
                     
                     
                         on_success_redirect  - the path or URL the user is redirected to on success 
                     
                     
                         on_error_message  - the message shown when a query throws an error 
                     
                     
                         on_error_redirect  - the path or URL the user is redirected to on error 
                     
                 
                 For example: 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""mydatabase"": {
            ""queries"": {
                ""add_name"": {
                    ""sql"": ""INSERT INTO names (name) VALUES (:name)"",
                    ""params"": [""name""],
                    ""write"": True,
                    ""on_success_message_sql"": ""select 'Name inserted: ' || :name"",
                    ""on_success_redirect"": ""/mydatabase/names"",
                    ""on_error_message"": ""Name insert failed"",
                    ""on_error_redirect"": ""/mydatabase"",
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 You can use  ""params""  to explicitly list the named parameters that should be displayed as form fields - otherwise they will be automatically detected.  ""params""  is not necessary in the above example, since without it  ""name""  would be automatically detected from the query. 
                 You can pre-populate form fields when the page first loads using a query string, e.g.  /mydatabase/add_name?name=Prepopulated . The user will have to submit the form to execute the query. 
                 If you specify a query in  ""on_success_message_sql"" , that query will be executed after the main query. The first column of the first row return by that query will be displayed as a success message. Named parameters from the main query will be made available to the success message query as well.","[""Running SQL queries"", ""Canned queries""]",[]
configuration:configuration-reference-canned-queries,configuration,configuration-reference-canned-queries,Canned queries configuration,"Canned queries  are named SQL queries that appear in the Datasette interface. They can be configured in  datasette.yaml  using the  queries  key at the database level: 
                 [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example, config_example
config_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
       ""sf-trees"": {
           ""queries"": {
               ""just_species"": {
                   ""sql"": ""select qSpecies from Street_Tree_List""
               }
           }
       }
    }
}) 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]] 
                 See the  canned queries documentation  for more, including how to configure  writable canned queries .","[""Configuration"", null]",[]
authentication:authentication-permissions-query,authentication,authentication-permissions-query,Access to specific canned queries,"Canned queries  allow you to configure named SQL queries in your  datasette.yaml  that can be executed by users. These queries can be set up to both read and write to the database, so controlling who can execute them can be important. 
                 To limit access to the  add_name  canned query in your  dogs.db  database to just the  root user : 
                 [[[cog
config_example(cog, """"""
    databases:
      dogs:
        queries:
          add_name:
            sql: INSERT INTO names (name) VALUES (:name)
            write: true
            allow:
              id:
              - root
"""""") 
                 ]]] 
                 [[[end]]]","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Access permissions in ""]",[]
settings:setting-sql-time-limit-ms,settings,setting-sql-time-limit-ms,sql_time_limit_ms,"By default, queries have a time limit of one second. If a query takes longer than this to run Datasette will terminate the query and return an error. 
                 If this time limit is too short for you, you can customize it using the  sql_time_limit_ms  limit - for example, to increase it to 3.5 seconds: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting sql_time_limit_ms 3500 
                 You can optionally set a lower time limit for an individual query using the  ?_timelimit=100  query string argument: 
                 /my-database/my-table?qSpecies=44&_timelimit=100 
                 This would set the time limit to 100ms for that specific query. This feature is useful if you are working with databases of unknown size and complexity - a query that might make perfect sense for a smaller table could take too long to execute on a table with millions of rows. By setting custom time limits you can execute queries ""optimistically"" - e.g. give me an exact count of rows matching this query but only if it takes less than 100ms to calculate.","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
custom_templates:customization-custom-templates,custom_templates,customization-custom-templates,Custom templates,"By default, Datasette uses default templates that ship with the package. 
                 You can over-ride these templates by specifying a custom  --template-dir  like
                    this: 
                 datasette mydb.db --template-dir=mytemplates/ 
                 Datasette will now first look for templates in that directory, and fall back on
                    the defaults if no matches are found. 
                 It is also possible to over-ride templates on a per-database, per-row or per-
                    table basis. 
                 The lookup rules Datasette uses are as follows: 
                 Index page (/):
    index.html

Database page (/mydatabase):
    database-mydatabase.html
    database.html

Custom query page (/mydatabase?sql=...):
    query-mydatabase.html
    query.html

Canned query page (/mydatabase/canned-query):
    query-mydatabase-canned-query.html
    query-mydatabase.html
    query.html

Table page (/mydatabase/mytable):
    table-mydatabase-mytable.html
    table.html

Row page (/mydatabase/mytable/id):
    row-mydatabase-mytable.html
    row.html

Table of rows and columns include on table page:
    _table-table-mydatabase-mytable.html
    _table-mydatabase-mytable.html
    _table.html

Table of rows and columns include on row page:
    _table-row-mydatabase-mytable.html
    _table-mydatabase-mytable.html
    _table.html 
                 If a table name has spaces or other unexpected characters in it, the template
                    filename will follow the same rules as our custom  <body>  CSS classes - for
                    example, a table called ""Food Trucks"" will attempt to load the following
                    templates: 
                 table-mydatabase-Food-Trucks-399138.html
table.html 
                 You can find out which templates were considered for a specific page by viewing
                    source on that page and looking for an HTML comment at the bottom. The comment
                    will look something like this: 
                 <!-- Templates considered: *query-mydb-tz.html, query-mydb.html, query.html --> 
                 This example is from the canned query page for a query called ""tz"" in the
                    database called ""mydb"". The asterisk shows which template was selected - so in
                    this case, Datasette found a template file called  query-mydb-tz.html  and
                    used that - but if that template had not been found, it would have tried for
                     query-mydb.html  or the default  query.html . 
                 It is possible to extend the default templates using Jinja template
                    inheritance. If you want to customize EVERY row template with some additional
                    content you can do so by creating a  row.html  template like this: 
                 {% extends ""default:row.html"" %}

{% block content %}
<h1>EXTRA HTML AT THE TOP OF THE CONTENT BLOCK</h1>
<p>This line renders the original block:</p>
{{ super() }}
{% endblock %} 
                 Note the  default:row.html  template name, which ensures Jinja will inherit
                    from the default template. 
                 The  _table.html  template is included by both the row and the table pages,
                    and a list of rows. The default  _table.html  template renders them as an
                    HTML template and  can be seen here . 
                 You can provide a custom template that applies to all of your databases and
                    tables, or you can provide custom templates for specific tables using the
                    template naming scheme described above. 
                 If you want to present your data in a format other than an HTML table, you
                    can do so by looping through  display_rows  in your own  _table.html 
                    template. You can use  {{ row[""column_name""] }}  to output the raw value
                    of a specific column. 
                 If you want to output the rendered HTML version of a column, including any
                    links to foreign keys, you can use  {{ row.display(""column_name"") }} . 
                 Here is an example of a custom  _table.html  template: 
                 {% for row in display_rows %}
    <div>
        <h2>{{ row[""title""] }}</h2>
        <p>{{ row[""description""] }}<lp>
        <p>Category: {{ row.display(""category_id"") }}</p>
    </div>
{% endfor %}","[""Custom pages and templates"", ""Publishing static assets""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/datasette/templates/_table.html"", ""label"": ""can be seen here""}]"
metadata:metadata-default-sort,metadata,metadata-default-sort,Setting a default sort order,"By default Datasette tables are sorted by primary key. You can over-ride this default for a specific table using the  ""sort""  or  ""sort_desc""  metadata properties: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""mydatabase"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""sort"": ""created""
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             Or use  ""sort_desc""  to sort in descending order: 
             [[[cog
metadata_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
        ""mydatabase"": {
            ""tables"": {
                ""example_table"": {
                    ""sort_desc"": ""created""
                }
            }
        }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]]","[""Metadata""]",[]
changelog:id82,changelog,id82,0.29.2 (2019-07-13),"Bumped  Uvicorn  to 0.8.4, fixing a bug where the query string was not included in the server logs. ( #559 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where the navigation breadcrumbs were not displayed correctly on the page for a custom query. ( #558 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug where custom query names containing unicode characters caused errors.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.uvicorn.org/"", ""label"": ""Uvicorn""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/559"", ""label"": ""#559""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/558"", ""label"": ""#558""}]"
changelog:id115,changelog,id115,0.22.1 (2018-05-23),"Bugfix release, plus we now use  versioneer  for our version numbers. 
             
                 
                     Faceting no longer breaks pagination, fixes  #282 
                 
                 
                     Add  __version_info__  derived from  __version__  [Robert Gieseke] 
                     This might be tuple of more than two values (major and minor
                        version) if commits have been made after a release. 
                 
                 
                     Add version number support with Versioneer. [Robert Gieseke] 
                     Versioneer Licence:
                        Public Domain (CC0-1.0) 
                     Closes  #273 
                 
                 
                     Refactor inspect logic [Russ Garrett]","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer"", ""label"": ""versioneer""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/282"", ""label"": ""#282""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/273"", ""label"": ""#273""}]"
changelog:signed-values-and-secrets,changelog,signed-values-and-secrets,Signed values and secrets,"Both flash messages and user authentication needed a way to sign values and set signed cookies. Two new methods are now available for plugins to take advantage of this mechanism:  .sign(value, namespace=""default"")  and  .unsign(value, namespace=""default"") . 
                 Datasette will generate a secret automatically when it starts up, but to avoid resetting the secret (and hence invalidating any cookies) every time the server restarts you should set your own secret. You can pass a secret to Datasette using the new  --secret  option or with a  DATASETTE_SECRET  environment variable. See  Configuring the secret  for more details. 
                 You can also set a secret when you deploy Datasette using  datasette publish  or  datasette package  - see  Using secrets with datasette publish . 
                 Plugins can now sign values and verify their signatures using the  datasette.sign()  and  datasette.unsign()  methods.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]",[]
contributing:contributing-formatting-black,contributing,contributing-formatting-black,Running Black,"Black will be installed when you run  pip install -e '.[test]' . To test that your code complies with Black, run the following in your root  datasette  repository checkout: 
                 black . --check 
                 All done! ✨ 🍰 ✨
95 files would be left unchanged. 
                 If any of your code does not conform to Black you can run this to automatically fix those problems: 
                 black . 
                 reformatted ../datasette/setup.py
All done! ✨ 🍰 ✨
1 file reformatted, 94 files left unchanged.","[""Contributing"", ""Code formatting""]",[]
changelog:id155,changelog,id155,0.16 (2018-04-13),"Better mechanism for handling errors; 404s for missing table/database 
                     New error mechanism closes  #193 
                     404s for missing tables/databases closes  #184 
                 
                 
                     long_description in markdown for the new PyPI 
                 
                 
                     Hide SpatiaLite system tables. [Russ Garrett] 
                 
                 
                     Allow  explain select  /  explain query plan select   #201 
                 
                 
                     Datasette inspect now finds primary_keys  #195 
                 
                 
                     Ability to sort using form fields (for mobile portrait mode)  #199 
                     We now display sort options as a select box plus a descending checkbox, which
                        means you can apply sort orders even in portrait mode on a mobile phone where
                        the column headers are hidden.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/193"", ""label"": ""#193""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/184"", ""label"": ""#184""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/201"", ""label"": ""#201""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/195"", ""label"": ""#195""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/199"", ""label"": ""#199""}]"
changelog:named-in-memory-database-support,changelog,named-in-memory-database-support,Named in-memory database support,"As part of the work building the  _internal  database, Datasette now supports named in-memory databases that can be shared across multiple connections. This allows plugins to create in-memory databases which will persist data for the lifetime of the Datasette server process. ( #1151 ) 
                 The new  memory_name=  parameter to the  Database class  can be used to create named, shared in-memory databases.","[""Changelog"", ""0.54 (2021-01-25)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1151"", ""label"": ""#1151""}]"
changelog:the-internal-database,changelog,the-internal-database,The _internal database,"As part of ongoing work to help Datasette handle much larger numbers of connected databases and tables (see  Datasette Library ) Datasette now maintains an in-memory SQLite database with details of all of the attached databases, tables, columns, indexes and foreign keys. ( #1150 ) 
                 This will support future improvements such as a searchable, paginated homepage of all available tables. 
                 You can explore an example of this database by  signing in as root  to the  latest.datasette.io  demo instance and then navigating to  latest.datasette.io/_internal . 
                 Plugins can use these tables to introspect attached data in an efficient way. Plugin authors should note that this is not yet considered a stable interface, so any plugins that use this may need to make changes prior to Datasette 1.0 if the  _internal  table schemas change.","[""Changelog"", ""0.54 (2021-01-25)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/417"", ""label"": ""Datasette Library""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1150"", ""label"": ""#1150""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/login-as-root"", ""label"": ""signing in as root""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/_internal"", ""label"": ""latest.datasette.io/_internal""}]"
sql_queries:id1,sql_queries,id1,Canned queries,"As an alternative to adding views to your database, you can define canned queries inside your  datasette.yaml  file. Here's an example: 
             [[[cog
from metadata_doc import config_example, config_example
config_example(cog, {
    ""databases"": {
       ""sf-trees"": {
           ""queries"": {
               ""just_species"": {
                   ""sql"": ""select qSpecies from Street_Tree_List""
               }
           }
       }
    }
}) 
             ]]] 
             [[[end]]] 
             Then run Datasette like this: 
             datasette sf-trees.db -m metadata.json 
             Each canned query will be listed on the database index page, and will also get its own URL at: 
             /database-name/canned-query-name 
             For the above example, that URL would be: 
             /sf-trees/just_species 
             You can optionally include  ""title""  and  ""description""  keys to show a title and description on the canned query page. As with regular table metadata you can alternatively specify  ""description_html""  to have your description rendered as HTML (rather than having HTML special characters escaped).","[""Running SQL queries""]",[]
contributing:contributing-debugging,contributing,contributing-debugging,Debugging,"Any errors that occur while Datasette is running while display a stack trace on the console. 
             You can tell Datasette to open an interactive  pdb  debugger session if an error occurs using the  --pdb  option: 
             datasette --pdb fixtures.db","[""Contributing""]",[]
changelog:csv-export,changelog,csv-export,CSV export,"Any Datasette table, view or custom SQL query can now be exported as CSV. 
                 
                 Check out the  CSV export documentation  for more details, or
                    try the feature out on
                     https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/bechdel%2Fmovies 
                 If your table has more than  max_returned_rows  (default 1,000)
                    Datasette provides the option to  stream all rows . This option takes advantage
                    of async Python and Datasette's efficient  pagination  to
                    iterate through the entire matching result set and stream it back as a
                    downloadable CSV file.","[""Changelog"", ""0.23 (2018-06-18)""]","[{""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/bechdel%2Fmovies"", ""label"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight/bechdel%2Fmovies""}]"
csv_export:id1,csv_export,id1,CSV export,"Any Datasette table, view or custom SQL query can be exported as CSV. 
         To obtain the CSV representation of the table you are looking, click the ""this
            data as CSV"" link. 
         You can also use the advanced export form for more control over the resulting
            file, which looks like this and has the following options: 
         
         
             
                 download file  - instead of displaying CSV in your browser, this forces
                    your browser to download the CSV to your downloads directory. 
             
             
                 expand labels  - if your table has any foreign key references this option
                    will cause the CSV to gain additional  COLUMN_NAME_label  columns with a
                    label for each foreign key derived from the linked table.  In this example 
                    the  city_id  column is accompanied by a  city_id_label  column. 
             
             
                 stream all rows  - by default CSV files only contain the first
                     max_returned_rows  records. This option will cause Datasette to
                    loop through every matching record and return them as a single CSV file. 
             
         
         You can try that out on  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_size=4",[],"[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable.csv?_labels=on&_size=max"", ""label"": ""In this example""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_size=4"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_size=4""}]"
spatialite:importing-geojson-polygons-using-shapely,spatialite,importing-geojson-polygons-using-shapely,Importing GeoJSON polygons using Shapely,"Another common form of polygon data is the GeoJSON format. This can be imported into SpatiaLite directly, or by using the  Shapely  Python library. 
             Who's On First  is an excellent source of openly licensed GeoJSON polygons. Let's import the geographical polygon for Wales. First, we can use the Who's On First Spelunker tool to find the record for Wales: 
             spelunker.whosonfirst.org/id/404227475 
             That page includes a link to the GeoJSON record, which can be accessed here: 
             data.whosonfirst.org/404/227/475/404227475.geojson 
             Here's Python code to create a SQLite database, enable SpatiaLite, create a places table and then add a record for Wales: 
             import sqlite3

conn = sqlite3.connect(""places.db"")
# Enable SpatialLite extension
conn.enable_load_extension(True)
conn.load_extension(""/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib"")
# Create the masic countries table
conn.execute(""select InitSpatialMetadata(1)"")
conn.execute(
    ""create table places (id integer primary key, name text);""
)
# Add a MULTIPOLYGON Geometry column
conn.execute(
    ""SELECT AddGeometryColumn('places', 'geom', 4326, 'MULTIPOLYGON', 2);""
)
# Add a spatial index against the new column
conn.execute(""SELECT CreateSpatialIndex('places', 'geom');"")
# Now populate the table
from shapely.geometry.multipolygon import MultiPolygon
from shapely.geometry import shape
import requests

geojson = requests.get(
    ""https://data.whosonfirst.org/404/227/475/404227475.geojson""
).json()
# Convert to ""Well Known Text"" format
wkt = shape(geojson[""geometry""]).wkt
# Insert and commit the record
conn.execute(
    ""INSERT INTO places (id, name, geom) VALUES(null, ?, GeomFromText(?, 4326))"",
    (""Wales"", wkt),
)
conn.commit()","[""SpatiaLite""]","[{""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/Shapely/"", ""label"": ""Shapely""}, {""href"": ""https://whosonfirst.org/"", ""label"": ""Who's On First""}, {""href"": ""https://spelunker.whosonfirst.org/id/404227475/"", ""label"": ""spelunker.whosonfirst.org/id/404227475""}, {""href"": ""https://data.whosonfirst.org/404/227/475/404227475.geojson"", ""label"": ""data.whosonfirst.org/404/227/475/404227475.geojson""}]"
json_api:tableupsertview,json_api,tableupsertview,Upserting rows,"An upsert is an insert or update operation. If a row with a matching primary key already exists it will be updated - otherwise a new row will be inserted. 
                 The upsert API is mostly the same shape as the  insert API . It requires both the  insert-row  and  update-row  permissions. 
                 POST /<database>/<table>/-/upsert
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer dstok_<rest-of-token> 
                 {
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""id"": 1,
            ""title"": ""Updated title for 1"",
            ""description"": ""Updated description for 1""
        },
        {
            ""id"": 2,
            ""description"": ""Updated description for 2"",
        },
        {
            ""id"": 3,
            ""title"": ""Item 3"",
            ""description"": ""Description for 3""
        }
    ]
} 
                 Imagine a table with a primary key of  id  and which already has rows with  id  values of  1  and  2 . 
                 The above example will: 
                 
                     
                         Update the row with  id  of  1  to set both  title  and  description  to the new values 
                     
                     
                         Update the row with  id  of  2  to set  title  to the new value -  description  will be left unchanged 
                     
                     
                         Insert a new row with  id  of  3  and both  title  and  description  set to the new values 
                     
                 
                 Similar to  /-/insert , a  row  key with an object can be used instead of a  rows  array to upsert a single row. 
                 If successful, this will return a  200  status code and a  {""ok"": true}  response body. 
                 Add  ""return"": true  to the request body to return full copies of the affected rows after they have been inserted or updated: 
                 {
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""id"": 1,
            ""title"": ""Updated title for 1"",
            ""description"": ""Updated description for 1""
        },
        {
            ""id"": 2,
            ""description"": ""Updated description for 2"",
        },
        {
            ""id"": 3,
            ""title"": ""Item 3"",
            ""description"": ""Description for 3""
        }
    ],
    ""return"": true
} 
                 This will return the following: 
                 {
    ""ok"": true,
    ""rows"": [
        {
            ""id"": 1,
            ""title"": ""Updated title for 1"",
            ""description"": ""Updated description for 1""
        },
        {
            ""id"": 2,
            ""title"": ""Item 2"",
            ""description"": ""Updated description for 2""
        },
        {
            ""id"": 3,
            ""title"": ""Item 3"",
            ""description"": ""Description for 3""
        }
    ]
} 
                 When using upsert you must provide the primary key column (or columns if the table has a compound primary key) for every row, or you will get a  400  error: 
                 {
    ""ok"": false,
    ""errors"": [
        ""Row 0 is missing primary key column(s): \""id\""""
    ]
} 
                 If your table does not have an explicit primary key you should pass the SQLite  rowid  key instead. 
                 Pass  ""alter: true  to automatically add any missing columns to the table. This requires the  alter-table  permission.","[""JSON API"", ""The JSON write API""]",[]
index:datasette,index,datasette,Datasette,"An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data 
         Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API. 
         Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world. It is part of a  wider ecosystem of tools and plugins  dedicated to making working with structured data as productive as possible. 
         Explore a demo , watch  a presentation about the project  or  Try Datasette without installing anything using Glitch . 
         Interested in learning Datasette? Start with  the official tutorials . 
         Support questions, feedback? Join the  Datasette Discord .",[],"[{""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/datasette/"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/datasette/"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/actions?query=workflow%3ATest"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/LICENSE"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/discord"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/datasette/"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://pypi.org/project/datasette/"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/actions?query=workflow%3ATest"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/LICENSE"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/discord"", ""label"": null}, {""href"": ""https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight"", ""label"": ""Explore a demo""}, {""href"": ""https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2018/pybay-datasette/"", ""label"": ""a presentation about the project""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials"", ""label"": ""the official tutorials""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/discord"", ""label"": ""Datasette Discord""}]"
contributing:contributing-alpha-beta,contributing,contributing-alpha-beta,Alpha and beta releases,"Alpha and beta releases are published to preview upcoming features that may not yet be stable - in particular to preview new plugin hooks. 
             You are welcome to try these out, but please be aware that details may change before the final release. 
             Please join  discussions on the issue tracker  to share your thoughts and experiences with on alpha and beta features that you try out.","[""Contributing""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues"", ""label"": ""discussions on the issue tracker""}]"
settings:setting-allow-facet,settings,setting-allow-facet,allow_facet,"Allow users to specify columns they would like to facet on using the  ?_facet=COLNAME  URL parameter to the table view. 
                 This is enabled by default. If disabled, facets will still be displayed if they have been specifically enabled in  metadata.json  configuration for the table. 
                 Here's how to disable this feature: 
                 datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_facet off","[""Settings"", ""Settings""]",[]
internals:datasette-add-memory-database,internals,datasette-add-memory-database,.add_memory_database(name),"Adds a shared in-memory database with the specified name: 
                 datasette.add_memory_database(""statistics"") 
                 This is a shortcut for the following: 
                 from datasette.database import Database

datasette.add_database(
    Database(datasette, memory_name=""statistics"")
) 
                 Using either of these pattern will result in the in-memory database being served at  /statistics .","[""Internals for plugins"", ""Datasette class""]",[]
sql_queries:canned-queries-options,sql_queries,canned-queries-options,Additional canned query options,Additional options can be specified for canned queries in the YAML or JSON configuration.,"[""Running SQL queries"", ""Canned queries""]",[]
changelog:id71,changelog,id71,0.35 (2020-02-04),"Added five new plugins and one new conversion tool to the  The Datasette Ecosystem . 
                 
                 
                     The  Datasette  class has a new  render_template()  method which can be used by plugins to render templates using Datasette's pre-configured  Jinja  templating library. 
                 
                 
                     You can now execute SQL queries that start with a  -- comment  - thanks, Jay Graves ( #653 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/"", ""label"": ""Jinja""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/653"", ""label"": ""#653""}]"
changelog:id208,changelog,id208,0.11 (2017-11-14),"Added  datasette publish now --force  option. 
                     This calls  now  with  --force  - useful as it means you get a fresh copy of datasette even if Now has already cached that docker layer. 
                 
                 
                     Enable  --cors  by default when running in a container.","[""Changelog""]",[]
changelog:id198,changelog,id198,0.12 (2017-11-16),"Added  __version__ , now displayed as tooltip in page footer ( #108 ). 
                 
                 
                     Added initial docs, including a changelog ( #99 ). 
                 
                 
                     Turned on auto-escaping in Jinja. 
                 
                 
                     Added a UI for editing named parameters ( #96 ). 
                     You can now construct a custom SQL statement using SQLite named
                        parameters (e.g.  :name ) and datasette will display form fields for
                        editing those parameters.  Here’s an example  which lets you see the
                        most popular names for dogs of different species registered through
                        various dog registration schemes in Australia. 
                 
             
             
             
                 
                     Pin to specific Jinja version. ( #100 ). 
                 
                 
                     Default to 127.0.0.1 not 0.0.0.0. ( #98 ). 
                 
                 
                     Added extra metadata options to publish and package commands. ( #92 ). 
                     You can now run these commands like so: 
                     datasette now publish mydb.db \
    --title=""My Title"" \
    --source=""Source"" \
    --source_url=""http://www.example.com/"" \
    --license=""CC0"" \
    --license_url=""https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"" 
                     This will write those values into the metadata.json that is packaged with the
                        app. If you also pass  --metadata=metadata.json  that file will be updated with the extra
                        values before being written into the Docker image. 
                 
                 
                     Added production-ready Dockerfile ( #94 ) [Andrew
                        Cutler] 
                 
                 
                     New  ?_sql_time_limit_ms=10  argument to database and table page ( #95 ) 
                 
                 
                     SQL syntax highlighting with Codemirror ( #89 ) [Tom Dyson]","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/108"", ""label"": ""#108""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/99"", ""label"": ""#99""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/96"", ""label"": ""#96""}, {""href"": ""https://australian-dogs.now.sh/australian-dogs-3ba9628?sql=select+name%2C+count%28*%29+as+n+from+%28%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28%22Animal+name%22%29+as+name+from+%5BAdelaide-City-Council-dog-registrations-2013%5D+where+Breed+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28Animal_Name%29+as+name+from+%5BAdelaide-City-Council-dog-registrations-2014%5D+where+Breed_Description+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all+%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28Animal_Name%29+as+name+from+%5BAdelaide-City-Council-dog-registrations-2015%5D+where+Breed_Description+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28%22AnimalName%22%29+as+name+from+%5BCity-of-Port-Adelaide-Enfield-Dog_Registrations_2016%5D+where+AnimalBreed+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28%22Animal+Name%22%29+as+name+from+%5BMitcham-dog-registrations-2015%5D+where+Breed+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28%22DOG_NAME%22%29+as+name+from+%5Bburnside-dog-registrations-2015%5D+where+DOG_BREED+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all+%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28%22Animal_Name%22%29+as+name+from+%5Bcity-of-playford-2015-dog-registration%5D+where+Breed_Description+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0Aunion+all%0D%0A%0D%0Aselect+upper%28%22Animal+Name%22%29+as+name+from+%5Bcity-of-prospect-dog-registration-details-2016%5D+where%22Breed+Description%22+like+%3Abreed%0D%0A%0D%0A%29+group+by+name+order+by+n+desc%3B&breed=pug"", ""label"": ""Here’s an example""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/100"", ""label"": ""#100""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/98"", ""label"": ""#98""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/92"", ""label"": ""#92""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/94"", ""label"": ""#94""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/95"", ""label"": ""#95""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/89"", ""label"": ""#89""}]"
changelog:id80,changelog,id80,0.30 (2019-10-18),"Added  /-/threads  debugging page 
                 
                 
                     Allow  EXPLAIN WITH...  ( #583 ) 
                 
                 
                     Button to format SQL - thanks, Tobias Kunze ( #136 ) 
                 
                 
                     Sort databases on homepage by argument order - thanks, Tobias Kunze ( #585 ) 
                 
                 
                     Display metadata footer on custom SQL queries - thanks, Tobias Kunze ( #589 ) 
                 
                 
                     Use  --platform=managed  for  publish cloudrun  ( #587 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fixed bug returning non-ASCII characters in CSV ( #584 ) 
                 
                 
                     Fix for  /foo  v.s.  /foo-bar  bug ( #601 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/583"", ""label"": ""#583""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/136"", ""label"": ""#136""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/585"", ""label"": ""#585""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/589"", ""label"": ""#589""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/587"", ""label"": ""#587""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/584"", ""label"": ""#584""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/601"", ""label"": ""#601""}]"
changelog:id211,changelog,id211,0.9 (2017-11-13),"Added  --sql_time_limit_ms  and  --extra-options . 
                     The serve command now accepts  --sql_time_limit_ms  for customizing the SQL time
                        limit. 
                     The publish and package commands now accept  --extra-options  which can be used
                        to specify additional options to be passed to the datasite serve command when
                        it executes inside the resulting Docker containers.","[""Changelog""]",[]
authentication:permissions-permissions-debug,authentication,permissions-permissions-debug,permissions-debug,"Actor is allowed to view the  /-/permissions  debug page. 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
authentication:permissions-view-table,authentication,permissions-view-table,view-table,"Actor is allowed to view a table (or view) page, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/complex_foreign_keys 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the table 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  allow .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/complex_foreign_keys"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/complex_foreign_keys""}]"
authentication:permissions-view-database,authentication,permissions-view-database,view-database,"Actor is allowed to view a database page, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures 
                 
                     
                         resource  - string 
                         
                             The name of the database 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  allow .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures""}]"
authentication:permissions-view-query,authentication,permissions-view-query,view-query,"Actor is allowed to view (and execute) a  canned query  page, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/pragma_cache_size  - this includes executing  Writable canned queries . 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the canned query 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  allow .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/pragma_cache_size"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/pragma_cache_size""}]"
authentication:permissions-update-row,authentication,permissions-update-row,update-row,"Actor is allowed to update rows in a table. 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the table 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
authentication:permissions-execute-sql,authentication,permissions-execute-sql,execute-sql,"Actor is allowed to run arbitrary SQL queries against a specific database, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+100 
                 
                     
                         resource  - string 
                         
                             The name of the database 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  allow . See also  the default_allow_sql setting .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+100"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+100""}]"
authentication:permissions-insert-row,authentication,permissions-insert-row,insert-row,"Actor is allowed to insert rows into a table. 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the table 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
authentication:permissions-drop-table,authentication,permissions-drop-table,drop-table,"Actor is allowed to drop a database table. 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the table 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
authentication:permissions-view-database-download,authentication,permissions-view-database-download,view-database-download,"Actor is allowed to download a database, e.g.  https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.db 
                 
                     
                         resource  - string 
                         
                             The name of the database 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  allow .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]","[{""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.db"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.db""}]"
authentication:permissions-delete-row,authentication,permissions-delete-row,delete-row,"Actor is allowed to delete rows from a table. 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the table 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
authentication:permissions-create-table,authentication,permissions-create-table,create-table,"Actor is allowed to create a database table. 
                 
                     
                         resource  - string 
                         
                             The name of the database 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
authentication:permissions-alter-table,authentication,permissions-alter-table,alter-table,"Actor is allowed to alter a database table. 
                 
                     
                         resource  - tuple: (string, string) 
                         
                             The name of the database, then the name of the table 
                         
                     
                 
                 Default  deny .","[""Authentication and permissions"", ""Built-in permissions""]",[]
plugin_hooks:plugin-actions,plugin_hooks,plugin-actions,Action hooks,"Action hooks can be used to add items to the action menus that appear at the top of different pages within Datasette. Unlike  menu_links() , actions which are displayed on every page, actions should only be relevant to the page the user is currently viewing. 
             Each of these hooks should return return a list of  {""href"": ""..."", ""label"": ""...""}  menu items, with optional  ""description"": ""...""  keys describing each action in more detail. 
             They can alternatively return an  async def  awaitable function which, when called, returns a list of those menu items.","[""Plugin hooks""]",[]
changelog:id84,changelog,id84,0.29 (2019-07-07),"ASGI, new plugin hooks, facet by date and much, much more...","[""Changelog""]",[]
changelog:asgi,changelog,asgi,ASGI,"ASGI  is the Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface standard. I've been wanting to convert Datasette into an ASGI application for over a year -  Port Datasette to ASGI #272  tracks thirteen months of intermittent development - but with Datasette 0.29 the change is finally released. This also means Datasette now runs on top of  Uvicorn  and no longer depends on  Sanic . 
                 I wrote about the significance of this change in  Porting Datasette to ASGI, and Turtles all the way down . 
                 The most exciting consequence of this change is that Datasette plugins can now take advantage of the ASGI standard.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://asgi.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""ASGI""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/272"", ""label"": ""Port Datasette to ASGI #272""}, {""href"": ""https://www.uvicorn.org/"", ""label"": ""Uvicorn""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/huge-success/sanic"", ""label"": ""Sanic""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2019/Jun/23/datasette-asgi/"", ""label"": ""Porting Datasette to ASGI, and Turtles all the way down""}]"
changelog:id63,changelog,id63,0.42 (2020-05-08),"A small release which provides improved internal methods for use in plugins, along with documentation. See  #685 . 
             
                 
                     Added documentation for  db.execute() , see  await db.execute(sql, ...) . 
                 
                 
                     Renamed  db.execute_against_connection_in_thread()  to  db.execute_fn()  and made it a documented method, see  await db.execute_fn(fn) . 
                 
                 
                     New  results.first()  and  results.single_value()  methods, plus documentation for the  Results  class - see  Results .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/685"", ""label"": ""#685""}]"
changelog:id94,changelog,id94,0.24 (2018-07-23),"A number of small new features: 
             
                 
                     datasette publish heroku  now supports  --extra-options , fixes  #334 
                 
                 
                     Custom error message if SpatiaLite is needed for specified database, closes  #331 
                 
                 
                     New config option:  truncate_cells_html  for  truncating long cell values  in HTML view - closes  #330 
                 
                 
                     Documentation for  datasette publish and datasette package , closes  #337 
                 
                 
                     Fixed compatibility with Python 3.7 
                 
                 
                     datasette publish heroku  now supports app names via the  -n  option, which can also be used to overwrite an existing application [Russ Garrett] 
                 
                 
                     Title and description metadata can now be set for  canned SQL queries , closes  #342 
                 
                 
                     New  force_https_on  config option, fixes  https://  API URLs when deploying to Zeit Now - closes  #333 
                 
                 
                     ?_json_infinity=1  query string argument for handling Infinity/-Infinity values in JSON, closes  #332 
                 
                 
                     URLs displayed in the results of custom SQL queries are now URLified, closes  #298","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/334"", ""label"": ""#334""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/331"", ""label"": ""#331""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/330"", ""label"": ""#330""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/337"", ""label"": ""#337""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/342"", ""label"": ""#342""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/333"", ""label"": ""#333""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/332"", ""label"": ""#332""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/298"", ""label"": ""#298""}]"
changelog:plugins-can-now-add-links-within-datasette,changelog,plugins-can-now-add-links-within-datasette,Plugins can now add links within Datasette,"A number of existing Datasette plugins add new pages to the Datasette interface, providig tools for things like  uploading CSVs ,  editing table schemas  or  configuring full-text search . 
                 Plugins like this can now link to themselves from other parts of Datasette interface. The  menu_links(datasette, actor, request)  hook ( #1064 ) lets plugins add links to Datasette's new top-right application menu, and the  table_actions(datasette, actor, database, table, request)  hook ( #1066 ) adds links to a new ""table actions"" menu on the table page. 
                 The demo at  latest.datasette.io  now includes some example plugins. To see the new table actions menu first  sign into that demo as root  and then visit the  facetable  table to see the new cog icon menu at the top of the page.","[""Changelog"", ""0.51 (2020-10-31)""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-upload-csvs"", ""label"": ""uploading CSVs""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-edit-schema"", ""label"": ""editing table schemas""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette-configure-fts"", ""label"": ""configuring full-text search""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1064"", ""label"": ""#1064""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1066"", ""label"": ""#1066""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""latest.datasette.io""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/login-as-root"", ""label"": ""sign into that demo as root""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable"", ""label"": ""facetable""}]"
changelog:id45,changelog,id45,0.51 (2020-10-31),"A new visual design, plugin hooks for adding navigation options, better handling of binary data, URL building utility methods and better support for running Datasette behind a proxy.","[""Changelog""]",[]
metadata:id2,metadata,id2,Metadata reference,A full reference of every supported option in a  metadata.json  or  metadata.yaml  file.,"[""Metadata""]",[]
installation:installation-docker,installation,installation-docker,Using Docker,"A Docker image containing the latest release of Datasette is published to Docker
                    Hub here:  https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette/ 
                 If you have Docker installed (for example with  Docker for Mac  on OS X) you can download and run this
                    image like so: 
                 docker run -p 8001:8001 -v `pwd`:/mnt \
    datasetteproject/datasette \
    datasette -p 8001 -h 0.0.0.0 /mnt/fixtures.db 
                 This will start an instance of Datasette running on your machine's port 8001,
                    serving the  fixtures.db  file in your current directory. 
                 Now visit  http://127.0.0.1:8001/  to access Datasette. 
                 (You can download a copy of  fixtures.db  from
                     https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.db  ) 
                 To upgrade to the most recent release of Datasette, run the following: 
                 docker pull datasetteproject/datasette","[""Installation"", ""Advanced installation options""]","[{""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette/"", ""label"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette/""}, {""href"": ""https://www.docker.com/docker-mac"", ""label"": ""Docker for Mac""}, {""href"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/"", ""label"": ""http://127.0.0.1:8001/""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.db"", ""label"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures.db""}]"
changelog:id85,changelog,id85,0.28 (2019-05-19),A  salmagundi  of new features!,"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://adamj.eu/tech/2019/01/18/a-salmagundi-of-django-alpha-announcements/"", ""label"": ""salmagundi""}]"
json_api:json-api-table-arguments,json_api,json-api-table-arguments,Special table arguments,"?_col=COLUMN1&_col=COLUMN2 
                         
                             List specific columns to display. These will be shown along with any primary keys. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_nocol=COLUMN1&_nocol=COLUMN2 
                         
                             List specific columns to hide - any column not listed will be displayed. Primary keys cannot be hidden. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_labels=on/off 
                         
                             Expand foreign key references for every possible column. See below. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_label=COLUMN1&_label=COLUMN2 
                         
                             Expand foreign key references for one or more specified columns. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_size=1000  or  ?_size=max 
                         
                             Sets a custom page size. This cannot exceed the  max_returned_rows  limit
                                passed to  datasette serve . Use  max  to get  max_returned_rows . 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_sort=COLUMN 
                         
                             Sorts the results by the specified column. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_sort_desc=COLUMN 
                         
                             Sorts the results by the specified column in descending order. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_search=keywords 
                         
                             For SQLite tables that have been configured for
                                 full-text search  executes a search
                                with the provided keywords. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_search_COLUMN=keywords 
                         
                             Like  _search=  but allows you to specify the column to be searched, as
                                opposed to searching all columns that have been indexed by FTS. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_searchmode=raw 
                         
                             With this option, queries passed to  ?_search=  or  ?_search_COLUMN=  will
                                not have special characters escaped. This means you can make use of the full
                                set of  advanced SQLite FTS syntax ,
                                though this could potentially result in errors if the wrong syntax is used. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_where=SQL-fragment 
                         
                             If the  execute-sql  permission is enabled, this parameter
                                can be used to pass one or more additional SQL fragments to be used in the
                                 WHERE  clause of the SQL used to query the table. 
                             This is particularly useful if you are building a JavaScript application
                                that needs to do something creative but still wants the other conveniences
                                provided by the table view (such as faceting) and hence would like not to
                                have to construct a completely custom SQL query. 
                             Some examples: 
                             
                                 
                                     facetable?_where=_neighborhood like ""%c%""&_where=_city_id=3 
                                 
                                 
                                     facetable?_where=_city_id in (select id from facet_cities where name != ""Detroit"") 
                                 
                             
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_through={json} 
                         
                             This can be used to filter rows via a join against another table. 
                             The JSON parameter must include three keys:  table ,  column  and  value . 
                             table  must be a table that the current table is related to via a foreign key relationship. 
                             column  must be a column in that other table. 
                             value  is the value that you want to match against. 
                             For example, to filter  roadside_attractions  to just show the attractions that have a characteristic of ""museum"", you would construct this JSON: 
                             {
    ""table"": ""roadside_attraction_characteristics"",
    ""column"": ""characteristic_id"",
    ""value"": ""1""
} 
                             As a URL, that looks like this: 
                             ?_through={%22table%22:%22roadside_attraction_characteristics%22,%22column%22:%22characteristic_id%22,%22value%22:%221%22} 
                             Here's  an example . 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_next=TOKEN 
                         
                             Pagination by continuation token - pass the token that was returned in the
                                 ""next""  property by the previous page. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_facet=column 
                         
                             Facet by column. Can be applied multiple times, see  Facets . Only works on the default JSON output, not on any of the custom shapes. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_facet_size=100 
                         
                             Increase the number of facet results returned for each facet. Use  ?_facet_size=max  for the maximum available size, determined by  max_returned_rows . 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_nofacet=1 
                         
                             Disable all facets and facet suggestions for this page, including any defined by  Facets in metadata . 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_nosuggest=1 
                         
                             Disable facet suggestions for this page. 
                         
                     
                     
                         ?_nocount=1 
                         
                             Disable the  select count(*)  query used on this page - a count of  None  will be returned instead.","[""JSON API"", ""Table arguments""]","[{""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html"", ""label"": ""full-text search""}, {""href"": ""https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#full_text_query_syntax"", ""label"": ""advanced SQLite FTS syntax""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_where=_neighborhood%20like%20%22%c%%22&_where=_city_id=3"", ""label"": ""facetable?_where=_neighborhood like \""%c%\""&_where=_city_id=3""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/facetable?_where=_city_id%20in%20(select%20id%20from%20facet_cities%20where%20name%20!=%20%22Detroit%22)"", ""label"": ""facetable?_where=_city_id in (select id from facet_cities where name != \""Detroit\"")""}, {""href"": ""https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions?_through={%22table%22:%22roadside_attraction_characteristics%22,%22column%22:%22characteristic_id%22,%22value%22:%221%22}"", ""label"": ""an example""}]"
changelog:id89,changelog,id89,0.26.1 (2019-01-10),"/-/versions  now includes SQLite  compile_options  ( #396 ) 
                 
                 
                     datasetteproject/datasette  Docker image now uses SQLite 3.26.0 ( #397 ) 
                 
                 
                     Cleaned up some deprecation warnings under Python 3.7","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/396"", ""label"": ""#396""}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette"", ""label"": ""datasetteproject/datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/397"", ""label"": ""#397""}]"
changelog:id78,changelog,id78,0.30.2 (2019-11-02),"/-/plugins  page now uses distribution name e.g.  datasette-cluster-map  instead of the name of the underlying Python package ( datasette_cluster_map ) ( #606 ) 
                 
                 
                     Array faceting is now only suggested for columns that contain arrays of strings ( #562 ) 
                 
                 
                     Better documentation for the  --host  argument ( #574 ) 
                 
                 
                     Don't show  None  with a broken link for the label on a nullable foreign key ( #406 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/606"", ""label"": ""#606""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/562"", ""label"": ""#562""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/574"", ""label"": ""#574""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/406"", ""label"": ""#406""}]"
metadata:top-level-metadata,metadata,top-level-metadata,Top-level metadata,"""Top-level"" metadata refers to fields that can be specified at the root level  of a metadata file. These attributes are meant to describe the entire Datasette instance. 
                 The following are the full list of allowed top-level metadata fields: 
                 
                     
                         title 
                     
                     
                         description 
                     
                     
                         description_html 
                     
                     
                         license 
                     
                     
                         license_url 
                     
                     
                         source 
                     
                     
                         source_url","[""Metadata"", ""Metadata reference""]",[]
metadata:table-level-metadata,metadata,table-level-metadata,Table-level metadata,"""Table-level"" metadata refers to fields that can be specified for each table in a Datasette instance. These attributes should be listed under a specific table using the  ""tables""  field. 
                 The following are the full list of allowed table-level metadata fields: 
                 
                     
                         source 
                     
                     
                         source_url 
                     
                     
                         license 
                     
                     
                         license_url 
                     
                     
                         about 
                     
                     
                         about_url 
                     
                     
                         hidden 
                     
                     
                         sort/sort_desc 
                     
                     
                         size 
                     
                     
                         sortable_columns 
                     
                     
                         label_column 
                     
                     
                         facets 
                     
                     
                         fts_table 
                     
                     
                         fts_pk 
                     
                     
                         searchmode 
                     
                     
                         columns","[""Metadata"", ""Metadata reference""]",[]
metadata:database-level-metadata,metadata,database-level-metadata,Database-level metadata,"""Database-level"" metadata refers to fields that can be specified for each database in a Datasette instance. These attributes should be listed under a database inside the  ""databases""  field. 
                 The following are the full list of allowed database-level metadata fields: 
                 
                     
                         source 
                     
                     
                         source_url 
                     
                     
                         license 
                     
                     
                         license_url 
                     
                     
                         about 
                     
                     
                         about_url","[""Metadata"", ""Metadata reference""]",[]
changelog:id1,changelog,id1,Changelog,,[],[]
changelog:id21,changelog,id21,0.60 (2022-01-13),,"[""Changelog""]",[]
getting_started:getting-started,getting_started,getting-started,Getting started,,[],[]
installation:installation-advanced,installation,installation-advanced,Advanced installation options,,"[""Installation""]",[]
installation:installation-basic,installation,installation-basic,Basic installation,,"[""Installation""]",[]
settings:id1,settings,id1,Settings,,[],[]
spatialite:spatialite-installation,spatialite,spatialite-installation,Installation,,"[""SpatiaLite""]",[]