{"id": "internals:internals-utils-parse-metadata", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-utils-parse-metadata", "title": "parse_metadata(content)", "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. \n                 If the metadata cannot be parsed as either JSON or YAML the function will raise a  utils.BadMetadataError  exception. \n                 \n                 \n                     datasette.utils. parse_metadata content :   str dict \n                     \n                         Detects if content is JSON or YAML and parses it appropriately.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"The datasette.utils module\"]", "references": "[]"}