{"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-page-extras", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-page-extras", "title": "Page extras", "content": "These plugin hooks can be used to affect the way HTML pages for different Datasette interfaces are rendered.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-register-permissions", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-register-permissions", "title": "register_permissions(datasette)", "content": "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. \n from datasette import hookimpl, Permission\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef register_permissions(datasette):\n return [\n Permission(\n name=\"upload-csvs\",\n abbr=None,\n description=\"Upload CSV files\",\n takes_database=True,\n takes_resource=False,\n default=False,\n )\n ] \n The fields of the Permission class are as follows: \n \n \n name - string \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n abbr - string or None \n \n 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. \n \n \n \n description - string or None \n \n 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 ...\". \n \n \n \n takes_database - boolean \n \n True if this permission can be granted on a per-database basis, False if it is only valid at the overall Datasette instance level. \n \n \n \n takes_resource - boolean \n \n True if this permission can be granted on a per-resource basis. A resource is a database table, SQL view or canned query . \n \n \n \n default - boolean \n \n 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. \n This should only be True if you want anonymous users to be able to take this action.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-register-magic-parameters", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-register-magic-parameters", "title": "register_magic_parameters(datasette)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n Magic parameters can be used to add automatic parameters to canned queries . This plugin hook allows additional magic parameters to be defined by plugins. \n Magic parameters all take this format: _prefix_rest_of_parameter . The prefix indicates which magic parameter function should be called - the rest of the parameter is passed as an argument to that function. \n To register a new function, return it as a tuple of (string prefix, function) from this hook. The function you register should take two arguments: key and request , where key is the rest_of_parameter portion of the parameter and request is the current Request object . \n This example registers two new magic parameters: :_request_http_version returning the HTTP version of the current request, and :_uuid_new which returns a new UUID: \n from datasette import hookimpl\nfrom uuid import uuid4\n\n\ndef uuid(key, request):\n if key == \"new\":\n return str(uuid4())\n else:\n raise KeyError\n\n\ndef request(key, request):\n if key == \"http_version\":\n return request.scope[\"http_version\"]\n else:\n raise KeyError\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef register_magic_parameters(datasette):\n return [\n (\"request\", request),\n (\"uuid\", uuid),\n ]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-forbidden", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-forbidden", "title": "forbidden(datasette, request, message)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) , or to render templates or execute SQL queries. \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n message - string \n \n A message hinting at why the request was forbidden. \n \n \n \n Plugins can use this to customize how Datasette responds when a 403 Forbidden error occurs - usually because a page failed a permission check, see Permissions . \n If a plugin hook wishes to react to the error, it should return a Response object . \n This example returns a redirect to a /-/login page: \n from datasette import hookimpl\nfrom urllib.parse import urlencode\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef forbidden(request, message):\n return Response.redirect(\n \"/-/login?=\" + urlencode({\"message\": message})\n ) \n The function can alternatively return an awaitable function if it needs to make any asynchronous method calls. This example renders a template: \n from datasette import hookimpl, Response\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef forbidden(datasette):\n async def inner():\n return Response.html(\n await datasette.render_template(\n \"render_message.html\", request=request\n )\n )\n\n return inner", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-actions", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-actions", "title": "Action hooks", "content": "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. \n Each of these hooks should return return a list of {\"href\": \"...\", \"label\": \"...\"} menu items, with optional \"description\": \"...\" keys describing each action in more detail. \n They can alternatively return an async def awaitable function which, when called, returns a list of those menu items.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-view-actions", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-view-actions", "title": "view_actions(datasette, actor, database, view, request)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) , or to execute SQL queries. \n \n \n \n actor - dictionary or None \n \n The currently authenticated actor . \n \n \n \n database - string \n \n The name of the database. \n \n \n \n view - string \n \n The name of the SQL view. \n \n \n \n request - Request object or None \n \n The current HTTP request. This can be None if the request object is not available. \n \n \n \n Like table_actions(datasette, actor, database, table, request) but for SQL views.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Action hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-homepage-actions", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-homepage-actions", "title": "homepage_actions(datasette, actor, request)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) , or to execute SQL queries. \n \n \n \n actor - dictionary or None \n \n The currently authenticated actor . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n Populates an actions menu on the top-level index homepage of the Datasette instance. \n This example adds a link an imagined tool for editing the homepage, only for signed in users: \n from datasette import hookimpl\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef homepage_actions(datasette, actor):\n if actor:\n return [\n {\n \"href\": datasette.urls.path(\n \"/-/customize-homepage\"\n ),\n \"label\": \"Customize homepage\",\n }\n ]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Action hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-top-homepage", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-top-homepage", "title": "top_homepage(datasette, request)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n Returns HTML to be displayed at the top of the Datasette homepage.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Template slots\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-top-database", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-top-database", "title": "top_database(datasette, request, database)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n database - string \n \n The name of the database. \n \n \n \n Returns HTML to be displayed at the top of the database page.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Template slots\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-top-table", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-top-table", "title": "top_table(datasette, request, database, table)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n database - string \n \n The name of the database. \n \n \n \n table - string \n \n The name of the table. \n \n \n \n Returns HTML to be displayed at the top of the table page.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Template slots\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-top-row", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-top-row", "title": "top_row(datasette, request, database, table, row)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n database - string \n \n The name of the database. \n \n \n \n table - string \n \n The name of the table. \n \n \n \n row - sqlite.Row \n \n The SQLite row object being displayed. \n \n \n \n Returns HTML to be displayed at the top of the row page.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Template slots\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-top-query", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-top-query", "title": "top_query(datasette, request, database, sql)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n database - string \n \n The name of the database. \n \n \n \n sql - string \n \n The SQL query. \n \n \n \n Returns HTML to be displayed at the top of the query results page.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Template slots\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-top-canned-query", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-top-canned-query", "title": "top_canned_query(datasette, request, database, query_name)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n request - Request object \n \n The current HTTP request. \n \n \n \n database - string \n \n The name of the database. \n \n \n \n query_name - string \n \n The name of the canned query. \n \n \n \n Returns HTML to be displayed at the top of the canned query page.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Template slots\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-event-tracking", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-event-tracking", "title": "Event tracking", "content": "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. \n Plugins can register to receive events using the track_event plugin hook. \n 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 .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugin_hooks:plugin-hook-register-events", "page": "plugin_hooks", "ref": "plugin-hook-register-events", "title": "register_events(datasette)", "content": "datasette - Datasette class \n \n You can use this to access plugin configuration options via datasette.plugin_config(your_plugin_name) . \n \n \n \n This hook should return a list of Event subclasses that represent custom events that the plugin might send to the datasette.track_event() method. \n This example registers event subclasses for ban-user and unban-user events: \n from dataclasses import dataclass\nfrom datasette import hookimpl, Event\n\n\n@dataclass\nclass BanUserEvent(Event):\n name = \"ban-user\"\n user: dict\n\n\n@dataclass\nclass UnbanUserEvent(Event):\n name = \"unban-user\"\n user: dict\n\n\n@hookimpl\ndef register_events():\n return [BanUserEvent, UnbanUserEvent] \n The plugin can then call datasette.track_event(...) to send a ban-user event: \n await datasette.track_event(\n BanUserEvent(user={\"id\": 1, \"username\": \"cleverbot\"})\n)", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugin hooks\", \"Event tracking\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugins:plugins-installing", "page": "plugins", "ref": "plugins-installing", "title": "Installing plugins", "content": "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. \n You can install plugins using the datasette install command: \n datasette install datasette-vega \n You can uninstall plugins with datasette uninstall : \n datasette uninstall datasette-vega \n You can upgrade plugins with datasette install --upgrade or datasette install -U : \n datasette install -U datasette-vega \n This command can also be used to upgrade Datasette itself to the latest released version: \n datasette install -U datasette \n You can install multiple plugins at once by listing them as lines in a requirements.txt file like this: \n datasette-vega\ndatasette-cluster-map \n Then pass that file to datasette install -r : \n datasette install -r requirements.txt \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugins:one-off-plugins-using-plugins-dir", "page": "plugins", "ref": "one-off-plugins-using-plugins-dir", "title": "One-off plugins using --plugins-dir", "content": "You can also define one-off per-project plugins by saving them as plugin_name.py functions in a plugins/ folder and then passing that folder to datasette using the --plugins-dir option: \n datasette mydb.db --plugins-dir=plugins/", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugins\", \"Installing plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugins:deploying-plugins-using-datasette-publish", "page": "plugins", "ref": "deploying-plugins-using-datasette-publish", "title": "Deploying plugins using datasette publish", "content": "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: \n datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --install=datasette-vega \n 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: \n datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db \\\n --install=https://url-to-my-package.zip", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugins\", \"Installing plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugins:plugins-datasette-load-plugins", "page": "plugins", "ref": "plugins-datasette-load-plugins", "title": "Controlling which plugins are loaded", "content": "Datasette defaults to loading every plugin that is installed in the same virtual environment as Datasette itself. \n 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. \n For example, to load just the datasette-vega and datasette-cluster-map plugins, set DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS to datasette-vega,datasette-cluster-map : \n export DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS='datasette-vega,datasette-cluster-map'\ndatasette mydb.db \n Or: \n DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS='datasette-vega,datasette-cluster-map' \\\n datasette mydb.db \n To disable the loading of all additional plugins, set DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS to an empty string: \n export DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS=''\ndatasette mydb.db \n A quick way to test this setting is to use it with the datasette plugins command: \n DATASETTE_LOAD_PLUGINS='datasette-vega' datasette plugins \n This should output the following: \n [\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-vega\",\n \"static\": true,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.6.2\",\n \"hooks\": [\n \"extra_css_urls\",\n \"extra_js_urls\"\n ]\n }\n]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugins:plugins-configuration", "page": "plugins", "ref": "plugins-configuration", "title": "Plugin configuration", "content": "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. \n Here is an example of some plugin configuration for a specific table: \n [[[cog\nfrom metadata_doc import config_example\nconfig_example(cog, {\n \"databases\": {\n \"sf-trees\": {\n \"tables\": {\n \"Street_Tree_List\": {\n \"plugins\": {\n \"datasette-cluster-map\": {\n \"latitude_column\": \"lat\",\n \"longitude_column\": \"lng\"\n }\n }\n }\n }\n }\n }\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n 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 .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "plugins:plugins-configuration-secret", "page": "plugins", "ref": "plugins-configuration-secret", "title": "Secret configuration values", "content": "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. \n 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: \n [[[cog\nconfig_example(cog, {\n \"plugins\": {\n \"datasette-auth-github\": {\n \"client_secret\": {\n \"$env\": \"GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET\"\n }\n }\n }\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n As values in separate files . Your secrets can also live in files on disk. To specify a secret should be read from a file, provide the full file path like this: \n [[[cog\nconfig_example(cog, {\n \"plugins\": {\n \"datasette-auth-github\": {\n \"client_secret\": {\n \"$file\": \"/secrets/client-secret\"\n }\n }\n }\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n 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: \n datasette publish heroku my_database.db \\\n --name my-heroku-app-demo \\\n --install=datasette-auth-github \\\n --plugin-secret datasette-auth-github client_id your_client_id \\\n --plugin-secret datasette-auth-github client_secret your_client_secret \n This will set the necessary environment variables and add the following to the deployed metadata.yaml : \n [[[cog\nconfig_example(cog, {\n \"plugins\": {\n \"datasette-auth-github\": {\n \"client_id\": {\n \"$env\": \"DATASETTE_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID\"\n },\n \"client_secret\": {\n \"$env\": \"DATASETTE_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET\"\n }\n }\n }\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Plugins\", \"Plugin configuration\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "full_text_search:full-text-search-fts-versions", "page": "full_text_search", "ref": "full-text-search-fts-versions", "title": "FTS versions", "content": "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. \n 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. \n If you can't be sure that FTS5 will be available, you should use FTS4.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Full-text search\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:id1", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "id1", "title": "CLI reference", "content": "The datasette CLI tool provides a number of commands. \n Running datasette without specifying a command runs the default command, datasette serve . See datasette serve for the full list of options for that command. \n [[[cog\nfrom datasette import cli\nfrom click.testing import CliRunner\nimport textwrap\ndef help(args):\n title = \"datasette \" + \" \".join(args)\n cog.out(\"\\n::\\n\\n\")\n result = CliRunner().invoke(cli.cli, args)\n output = result.output.replace(\"Usage: cli \", \"Usage: datasette \")\n cog.out(textwrap.indent(output, ' '))\n cog.out(\"\\n\\n\") \n ]]] \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-help", "title": "datasette --help", "content": "Running datasette --help shows a list of all of the available commands. \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...\n\n Datasette is an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data\n\n About Datasette: https://datasette.io/\n Full documentation: https://docs.datasette.io/\n\nOptions:\n --version Show the version and exit.\n --help Show this message and exit.\n\nCommands:\n serve* Serve up specified SQLite database files with a web UI\n create-token Create a signed API token for the specified actor ID\n inspect Generate JSON summary of provided database files\n install Install plugins and packages from PyPI into the same...\n package Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container\n plugins List currently installed plugins\n publish Publish specified SQLite database files to the internet...\n uninstall Uninstall plugins and Python packages from the Datasette... \n [[[end]]] \n Additional commands added by plugins that use the register_commands(cli) hook will be listed here as well.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-serve-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-serve-help", "title": "datasette serve", "content": "This command starts the Datasette web application running on your machine: \n datasette serve mydatabase.db \n Or since this is the default command you can run this instead: \n datasette mydatabase.db \n Once started you can access it at http://localhost:8001 \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"serve\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette serve [OPTIONS] [FILES]...\n\n Serve up specified SQLite database files with a web UI\n\nOptions:\n -i, --immutable PATH Database files to open in immutable mode\n -h, --host TEXT Host for server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1 which\n means only connections from the local machine\n will be allowed. Use 0.0.0.0 to listen to all\n IPs and allow access from other machines.\n -p, --port INTEGER RANGE Port for server, defaults to 8001. Use -p 0 to\n automatically assign an available port.\n [0<=x<=65535]\n --uds TEXT Bind to a Unix domain socket\n --reload Automatically reload if code or metadata\n change detected - useful for development\n --cors Enable CORS by serving Access-Control-Allow-\n Origin: *\n --load-extension PATH:ENTRYPOINT?\n Path to a SQLite extension to load, and\n optional entrypoint\n --inspect-file TEXT Path to JSON file created using \"datasette\n inspect\"\n -m, --metadata FILENAME Path to JSON/YAML file containing\n license/source metadata\n --template-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom templates\n --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins\n --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY Serve static files from this directory at\n /MOUNT/...\n --memory Make /_memory database available\n -c, --config FILENAME Path to JSON/YAML Datasette configuration file\n -s, --setting SETTING... nested.key, value setting to use in Datasette\n configuration\n --secret TEXT Secret used for signing secure values, such as\n signed cookies\n --root Output URL that sets a cookie authenticating\n the root user\n --get TEXT Run an HTTP GET request against this path,\n print results and exit\n --token TEXT API token to send with --get requests\n --actor TEXT Actor to use for --get requests (JSON string)\n --version-note TEXT Additional note to show on /-/versions\n --help-settings Show available settings\n --pdb Launch debugger on any errors\n -o, --open Open Datasette in your web browser\n --create Create database files if they do not exist\n --crossdb Enable cross-database joins using the /_memory\n database\n --nolock Ignore locking, open locked files in read-only\n mode\n --ssl-keyfile TEXT SSL key file\n --ssl-certfile TEXT SSL certificate file\n --internal PATH Path to a persistent Datasette internal SQLite\n database\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-datasette-get", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-datasette-get", "title": "datasette --get", "content": "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. \n This means that all of Datasette's functionality can be accessed directly from the command-line. \n For example: \n datasette --get '/-/versions.json' | jq . \n {\n \"python\": {\n \"version\": \"3.8.5\",\n \"full\": \"3.8.5 (default, Jul 21 2020, 10:48:26) \\n[Clang 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)]\"\n },\n \"datasette\": {\n \"version\": \"0.46+15.g222a84a.dirty\"\n },\n \"asgi\": \"3.0\",\n \"uvicorn\": \"0.11.8\",\n \"sqlite\": {\n \"version\": \"3.32.3\",\n \"fts_versions\": [\n \"FTS5\",\n \"FTS4\",\n \"FTS3\"\n ],\n \"extensions\": {\n \"json1\": null\n },\n \"compile_options\": [\n \"COMPILER=clang-11.0.3\",\n \"ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA\",\n \"ENABLE_FTS3\",\n \"ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS\",\n \"ENABLE_FTS4\",\n \"ENABLE_FTS5\",\n \"ENABLE_GEOPOLY\",\n \"ENABLE_JSON1\",\n \"ENABLE_PREUPDATE_HOOK\",\n \"ENABLE_RTREE\",\n \"ENABLE_SESSION\",\n \"MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER=250000\",\n \"THREADSAFE=1\"\n ]\n }\n} \n You can use the --token TOKEN option to send an API token with the simulated request. \n Or you can make a request as a specific actor by passing a JSON representation of that actor to --actor : \n datasette --memory --actor '{\"id\": \"root\"}' --get '/-/actor.json' \n 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. \n This lets you use datasette --get / to run tests against a Datasette application in a continuous integration environment such as GitHub Actions.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\", \"datasette serve\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-serve-help-settings", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-serve-help-settings", "title": "datasette serve --help-settings", "content": "This command outputs all of the available Datasette settings . \n These can be passed to datasette serve using datasette serve --setting name value . \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"--help-settings\"]) \n ]]] \n Settings:\n default_page_size Default page size for the table view\n (default=100)\n max_returned_rows Maximum rows that can be returned from a table or\n custom query (default=1000)\n max_insert_rows Maximum rows that can be inserted at a time using\n the bulk insert API (default=100)\n num_sql_threads Number of threads in the thread pool for\n executing SQLite queries (default=3)\n sql_time_limit_ms Time limit for a SQL query in milliseconds\n (default=1000)\n default_facet_size Number of values to return for requested facets\n (default=30)\n facet_time_limit_ms Time limit for calculating a requested facet\n (default=200)\n facet_suggest_time_limit_ms Time limit for calculating a suggested facet\n (default=50)\n allow_facet Allow users to specify columns to facet using\n ?_facet= parameter (default=True)\n allow_download Allow users to download the original SQLite\n database files (default=True)\n allow_signed_tokens Allow users to create and use signed API tokens\n (default=True)\n default_allow_sql Allow anyone to run arbitrary SQL queries\n (default=True)\n max_signed_tokens_ttl Maximum allowed expiry time for signed API tokens\n (default=0)\n suggest_facets Calculate and display suggested facets\n (default=True)\n default_cache_ttl Default HTTP cache TTL (used in Cache-Control:\n max-age= header) (default=5)\n cache_size_kb SQLite cache size in KB (0 == use SQLite default)\n (default=0)\n allow_csv_stream Allow .csv?_stream=1 to download all rows\n (ignoring max_returned_rows) (default=True)\n max_csv_mb Maximum size allowed for CSV export in MB - set 0\n to disable this limit (default=100)\n truncate_cells_html Truncate cells longer than this in HTML table\n view - set 0 to disable (default=2048)\n force_https_urls Force URLs in API output to always use https://\n protocol (default=False)\n template_debug Allow display of template debug information with\n ?_context=1 (default=False)\n trace_debug Allow display of SQL trace debug information with\n ?_trace=1 (default=False)\n base_url Datasette URLs should use this base path\n (default=/) \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\", \"datasette serve\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-plugins-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-plugins-help", "title": "datasette plugins", "content": "Output JSON showing all currently installed plugins, their versions, whether they include static files or templates and which Plugin hooks they use. \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"plugins\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette plugins [OPTIONS]\n\n List currently installed plugins\n\nOptions:\n --all Include built-in default plugins\n --requirements Output requirements.txt of installed plugins\n --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]] \n Example output: \n [\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-geojson\",\n \"static\": false,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.3.1\",\n \"hooks\": [\n \"register_output_renderer\"\n ]\n },\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-geojson-map\",\n \"static\": true,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.4.0\",\n \"hooks\": [\n \"extra_body_script\",\n \"extra_css_urls\",\n \"extra_js_urls\"\n ]\n },\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-leaflet\",\n \"static\": true,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.2.2\",\n \"hooks\": [\n \"extra_body_script\",\n \"extra_template_vars\"\n ]\n }\n]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-uninstall-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-uninstall-help", "title": "datasette uninstall", "content": "Uninstall one or more plugins. \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"uninstall\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette uninstall [OPTIONS] PACKAGES...\n\n Uninstall plugins and Python packages from the Datasette environment\n\nOptions:\n -y, --yes Don't ask for confirmation\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-publish-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-publish-help", "title": "datasette publish", "content": "Shows a list of available deployment targets for publishing data with Datasette. \n Additional deployment targets can be added by plugins that use the publish_subcommand(publish) hook. \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"publish\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette publish [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...\n\n Publish specified SQLite database files to the internet along with a\n Datasette-powered interface and API\n\nOptions:\n --help Show this message and exit.\n\nCommands:\n cloudrun Publish databases to Datasette running on Cloud Run\n heroku Publish databases to Datasette running on Heroku \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-publish-cloudrun-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-publish-cloudrun-help", "title": "datasette publish cloudrun", "content": "See Publishing to Google Cloud Run . \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"publish\", \"cloudrun\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette publish cloudrun [OPTIONS] [FILES]...\n\n Publish databases to Datasette running on Cloud Run\n\nOptions:\n -m, --metadata FILENAME Path to JSON/YAML file containing metadata to\n publish\n --extra-options TEXT Extra options to pass to datasette serve\n --branch TEXT Install datasette from a GitHub branch e.g.\n main\n --template-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom templates\n --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins\n --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY Serve static files from this directory at\n /MOUNT/...\n --install TEXT Additional packages (e.g. plugins) to install\n --plugin-secret ...\n Secrets to pass to plugins, e.g. --plugin-\n secret datasette-auth-github client_id xxx\n --version-note TEXT Additional note to show on /-/versions\n --secret TEXT Secret used for signing secure values, such as\n signed cookies\n --title TEXT Title for metadata\n --license TEXT License label for metadata\n --license_url TEXT License URL for metadata\n --source TEXT Source label for metadata\n --source_url TEXT Source URL for metadata\n --about TEXT About label for metadata\n --about_url TEXT About URL for metadata\n -n, --name TEXT Application name to use when building\n --service TEXT Cloud Run service to deploy (or over-write)\n --spatialite Enable SpatialLite extension\n --show-files Output the generated Dockerfile and\n metadata.json\n --memory TEXT Memory to allocate in Cloud Run, e.g. 1Gi\n --cpu [1|2|4] Number of vCPUs to allocate in Cloud Run\n --timeout INTEGER Build timeout in seconds\n --apt-get-install TEXT Additional packages to apt-get install\n --max-instances INTEGER Maximum Cloud Run instances\n --min-instances INTEGER Minimum Cloud Run instances\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-publish-heroku-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-publish-heroku-help", "title": "datasette publish heroku", "content": "See Publishing to Heroku . \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"publish\", \"heroku\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette publish heroku [OPTIONS] [FILES]...\n\n Publish databases to Datasette running on Heroku\n\nOptions:\n -m, --metadata FILENAME Path to JSON/YAML file containing metadata to\n publish\n --extra-options TEXT Extra options to pass to datasette serve\n --branch TEXT Install datasette from a GitHub branch e.g.\n main\n --template-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom templates\n --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins\n --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY Serve static files from this directory at\n /MOUNT/...\n --install TEXT Additional packages (e.g. plugins) to install\n --plugin-secret ...\n Secrets to pass to plugins, e.g. --plugin-\n secret datasette-auth-github client_id xxx\n --version-note TEXT Additional note to show on /-/versions\n --secret TEXT Secret used for signing secure values, such as\n signed cookies\n --title TEXT Title for metadata\n --license TEXT License label for metadata\n --license_url TEXT License URL for metadata\n --source TEXT Source label for metadata\n --source_url TEXT Source URL for metadata\n --about TEXT About label for metadata\n --about_url TEXT About URL for metadata\n -n, --name TEXT Application name to use when deploying\n --tar TEXT --tar option to pass to Heroku, e.g.\n --tar=/usr/local/bin/gtar\n --generate-dir DIRECTORY Output generated application files and stop\n without deploying\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-package-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-package-help", "title": "datasette package", "content": "Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container, see datasette package . \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"package\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette package [OPTIONS] FILES...\n\n Package SQLite files into a Datasette Docker container\n\nOptions:\n -t, --tag TEXT Name for the resulting Docker container, can\n optionally use name:tag format\n -m, --metadata FILENAME Path to JSON/YAML file containing metadata to\n publish\n --extra-options TEXT Extra options to pass to datasette serve\n --branch TEXT Install datasette from a GitHub branch e.g. main\n --template-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom templates\n --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins\n --static MOUNT:DIRECTORY Serve static files from this directory at /MOUNT/...\n --install TEXT Additional packages (e.g. plugins) to install\n --spatialite Enable SpatialLite extension\n --version-note TEXT Additional note to show on /-/versions\n --secret TEXT Secret used for signing secure values, such as\n signed cookies\n -p, --port INTEGER RANGE Port to run the server on, defaults to 8001\n [1<=x<=65535]\n --title TEXT Title for metadata\n --license TEXT License label for metadata\n --license_url TEXT License URL for metadata\n --source TEXT Source label for metadata\n --source_url TEXT Source URL for metadata\n --about TEXT About label for metadata\n --about_url TEXT About URL for metadata\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-inspect-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-inspect-help", "title": "datasette inspect", "content": "Outputs JSON representing introspected data about one or more SQLite database files. \n 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: \n datasette inspect mydatabase.db > inspect-data.json\ndatasette serve -i mydatabase.db --inspect-file inspect-data.json \n This performance optimization is used automatically by some of the datasette publish commands. You are unlikely to need to apply this optimization manually. \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"inspect\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette inspect [OPTIONS] [FILES]...\n\n Generate JSON summary of provided database files\n\n This can then be passed to \"datasette --inspect-file\" to speed up count\n operations against immutable database files.\n\nOptions:\n --inspect-file TEXT\n --load-extension PATH:ENTRYPOINT?\n Path to a SQLite extension to load, and\n optional entrypoint\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "cli-reference:cli-help-create-token-help", "page": "cli-reference", "ref": "cli-help-create-token-help", "title": "datasette create-token", "content": "Create a signed API token, see datasette create-token . \n [[[cog\nhelp([\"create-token\", \"--help\"]) \n ]]] \n Usage: datasette create-token [OPTIONS] ID\n\n Create a signed API token for the specified actor ID\n\n Example:\n\n datasette create-token root --secret mysecret\n\n To allow only \"view-database-download\" for all databases:\n\n datasette create-token root --secret mysecret \\\n --all view-database-download\n\n To allow \"create-table\" against a specific database:\n\n datasette create-token root --secret mysecret \\\n --database mydb create-table\n\n To allow \"insert-row\" against a specific table:\n\n datasette create-token root --secret myscret \\\n --resource mydb mytable insert-row\n\n Restricted actions can be specified multiple times using multiple --all,\n --database, and --resource options.\n\n Add --debug to see a decoded version of the token.\n\nOptions:\n --secret TEXT Secret used for signing the API tokens\n [required]\n -e, --expires-after INTEGER Token should expire after this many seconds\n -a, --all ACTION Restrict token to this action\n -d, --database DB ACTION Restrict token to this action on this database\n -r, --resource DB RESOURCE ACTION\n Restrict token to this action on this database\n resource (a table, SQL view or named query)\n --debug Show decoded token\n --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins\n --help Show this message and exit. \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"CLI reference\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "installation:id1", "page": "installation", "ref": "id1", "title": "Installation", "content": "If you just want to try Datasette out you don't need to install anything: see Try Datasette without installing anything using Glitch \n \n There are two main options for installing Datasette. You can install it directly on to your machine, or you can install it using Docker. \n 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 . \n \n \n \n Basic installation \n \n \n Datasette Desktop for Mac \n \n \n Using Homebrew \n \n \n Using pip \n \n \n \n \n Advanced installation options \n \n \n Using pipx \n \n \n Installing plugins using pipx \n \n \n Upgrading packages using pipx \n \n \n \n \n Using Docker \n \n \n Loading SpatiaLite \n \n \n Installing plugins \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A note about extensions", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "installation:installation-basic", "page": "installation", "ref": "installation-basic", "title": "Basic installation", "content": "", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Installation\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "installation:installation-advanced", "page": "installation", "ref": "installation-advanced", "title": "Advanced installation options", "content": "", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Installation\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "installation:installing-plugins-using-pipx", "page": "installation", "ref": "installing-plugins-using-pipx", "title": "Installing plugins using pipx", "content": "You can install additional datasette plugins with pipx inject like so: \n pipx inject datasette datasette-json-html \n injected package datasette-json-html into venv datasette\ndone! \u2728 \ud83c\udf1f \u2728 \n Then to confirm the plugin was installed correctly: \n datasette plugins \n [\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-json-html\",\n \"static\": false,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.6\"\n }\n]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Installation\", \"Advanced installation options\", \"Using pipx\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "installation:upgrading-packages-using-pipx", "page": "installation", "ref": "upgrading-packages-using-pipx", "title": "Upgrading packages using pipx", "content": "You can upgrade your pipx installation to the latest release of Datasette using pipx upgrade datasette : \n pipx upgrade datasette \n upgraded package datasette from 0.39 to 0.40 (location: /Users/simon/.local/pipx/venvs/datasette) \n To upgrade a plugin within the pipx environment use pipx runpip datasette install -U name-of-plugin - like this: \n datasette plugins \n [\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-vega\",\n \"static\": true,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.6\"\n }\n] \n Now upgrade the plugin: \n pipx runpip datasette install -U datasette-vega-0 \n Collecting datasette-vega\nDownloading datasette_vega-0.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)\n |\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588| 1.8 MB 2.0 MB/s\n...\nInstalling collected packages: datasette-vega\nAttempting uninstall: datasette-vega\n Found existing installation: datasette-vega 0.6\n Uninstalling datasette-vega-0.6:\n Successfully uninstalled datasette-vega-0.6\nSuccessfully installed datasette-vega-0.6.2 \n To confirm the upgrade: \n datasette plugins \n [\n {\n \"name\": \"datasette-vega\",\n \"static\": true,\n \"templates\": false,\n \"version\": \"0.6.2\"\n }\n]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Installation\", \"Advanced installation options\", \"Using pipx\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "installation:installation-extensions", "page": "installation", "ref": "installation-extensions", "title": "A note about extensions", "content": "SQLite supports extensions, such as SpatiaLite for geospatial operations. \n These can be loaded using the --load-extension argument, like so: \n datasette --load-extension=/usr/local/lib/mod_spatialite.dylib \n 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: \n \n Your Python installation does not have the ability to load SQLite extensions. \n \n In some cases you may see the following error message instead: \n AttributeError: 'sqlite3.Connection' object has no attribute 'enable_load_extension' \n On macOS the easiest fix for this is to install Datasette using Homebrew: \n brew install datasette \n Use which datasette to confirm that datasette will run that version. The output should look something like this: \n /usr/local/opt/datasette/bin/datasette \n 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: \n alias datasette=$(echo $(brew --prefix datasette)/bin/datasette) \n You can undo this operation using: \n unalias datasette \n If you need to run SQLite with extension support for other Python code, you can do so by install Python itself using Homebrew: \n brew install python \n Then executing Python using: \n /usr/local/opt/python@3/libexec/bin/python \n A more convenient way to work with this version of Python may be to use it to create a virtual environment: \n /usr/local/opt/python@3/libexec/bin/python -m venv datasette-venv \n Then activate it like this: \n source datasette-venv/bin/activate \n Now running python and pip will work against a version of Python 3 that includes support for SQLite extensions: \n pip install datasette\nwhich datasette\ndatasette --version", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Installation\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "facets:facets-in-query-strings", "page": "facets", "ref": "facets-in-query-strings", "title": "Facets in query strings", "content": "To turn on faceting for specific columns on a Datasette table view, add one or more _facet=COLUMN parameters to the URL.\n For example, if you want to turn on facets for the city_id and state columns, construct a URL that looks like this: \n /dbname/tablename?_facet=state&_facet=city_id \n This works for both the HTML interface and the .json view.\n When enabled, facets will cause a facet_results block to be added to the JSON output, looking something like this: \n {\n \"state\": {\n \"name\": \"state\",\n \"results\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"CA\",\n \"label\": \"CA\",\n \"count\": 10,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&state=CA\",\n \"selected\": false\n },\n {\n \"value\": \"MI\",\n \"label\": \"MI\",\n \"count\": 4,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&state=MI\",\n \"selected\": false\n },\n {\n \"value\": \"MC\",\n \"label\": \"MC\",\n \"count\": 1,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&state=MC\",\n \"selected\": false\n }\n ],\n \"truncated\": false\n }\n \"city_id\": {\n \"name\": \"city_id\",\n \"results\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1,\n \"label\": \"San Francisco\",\n \"count\": 6,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=1\",\n \"selected\": false\n },\n {\n \"value\": 2,\n \"label\": \"Los Angeles\",\n \"count\": 4,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=2\",\n \"selected\": false\n },\n {\n \"value\": 3,\n \"label\": \"Detroit\",\n \"count\": 4,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=3\",\n \"selected\": false\n },\n {\n \"value\": 4,\n \"label\": \"Memnonia\",\n \"count\": 1,\n \"toggle_url\": \"http://...?_facet=city_id&_facet=state&city_id=4\",\n \"selected\": false\n }\n ],\n \"truncated\": false\n }\n} \n 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. \n The default number of facet results returned is 30, controlled by the default_facet_size setting.\n 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).", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Facets\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "facets:facets-metadata", "page": "facets", "ref": "facets-metadata", "title": "Facets in metadata", "content": "You can turn facets on by default for specific tables by adding them to a \"facets\" key in a Datasette Metadata file. \n Here's an example that turns on faceting by default for the qLegalStatus column in the Street_Tree_List table in the sf-trees database: \n [[[cog\nfrom metadata_doc import metadata_example\nmetadata_example(cog, {\n \"databases\": {\n \"sf-trees\": {\n \"tables\": {\n \"Street_Tree_List\": {\n \"facets\": [\"qLegalStatus\"]\n }\n }\n }\n }\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n Facets defined in this way will always be shown in the interface and returned in the API, regardless of the _facet arguments passed to the view. \n You can specify array or date facets in metadata using JSON objects with a single key of array or date and a value specifying the column, like this: \n [[[cog\nmetadata_example(cog, {\n \"facets\": [\n {\"array\": \"tags\"},\n {\"date\": \"created\"}\n ]\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]] \n You can change the default facet size (the number of results shown for each facet) for a table using facet_size : \n [[[cog\nmetadata_example(cog, {\n \"databases\": {\n \"sf-trees\": {\n \"tables\": {\n \"Street_Tree_List\": {\n \"facets\": [\"qLegalStatus\"],\n \"facet_size\": 10\n }\n }\n }\n }\n}) \n ]]] \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Facets\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "facets:suggested-facets", "page": "facets", "ref": "suggested-facets", "title": "Suggested facets", "content": "Datasette's table UI will suggest facets for the user to apply, based on the following criteria: \n For the currently filtered data are there any columns which, if applied as a facet... \n \n \n Will return 30 or less unique options \n \n \n Will return more than one unique option \n \n \n Will return less unique options than the total number of filtered rows \n \n \n And the query used to evaluate this criteria can be completed in under 50ms \n \n \n 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.\n This means suggested facets are unlikely to appear for tables with millions of records in them.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Facets\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "testing_plugins:testing-plugins-datasette-test-instance", "page": "testing_plugins", "ref": "testing-plugins-datasette-test-instance", "title": "Setting up a Datasette test instance", "content": "The above example shows the easiest way to start writing tests against a Datasette instance: \n from datasette.app import Datasette\nimport pytest\n\n\n@pytest.mark.asyncio\nasync def test_plugin_is_installed():\n datasette = Datasette(memory=True)\n response = await datasette.client.get(\"/-/plugins.json\")\n assert response.status_code == 200 \n 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: \n datasette = Datasette(memory=True)\nawait datasette.invoke_startup() \n This method registers any startup(datasette) or prepare_jinja2_environment(env, datasette) plugins that might themselves need to make async calls. \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Testing plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "testing_plugins:testing-plugins-pdb", "page": "testing_plugins", "ref": "testing-plugins-pdb", "title": "Using pdb for errors thrown inside Datasette", "content": "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. \n 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. \n Here's what that looks like in a test function: \n def test_that_opens_the_debugger_or_errors():\n ds = Datasette([db_path], pdb=True)\n response = await ds.client.get(\"/\") \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Testing plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "testing_plugins:testing-plugins-register-in-test", "page": "testing_plugins", "ref": "testing-plugins-register-in-test", "title": "Registering a plugin for the duration of a test", "content": "When writing tests for plugins you may find it useful to register a test plugin just for the duration of a single test. You can do this using pm.register() and pm.unregister() like this: \n from datasette import hookimpl\nfrom datasette.app import Datasette\nfrom datasette.plugins import pm\nimport pytest\n\n\n@pytest.mark.asyncio\nasync def test_using_test_plugin():\n class TestPlugin:\n __name__ = \"TestPlugin\"\n\n # Use hookimpl and method names to register hooks\n @hookimpl\n def register_routes(self):\n return [\n (r\"^/error$\", lambda: 1 / 0),\n ]\n\n pm.register(TestPlugin(), name=\"undo\")\n try:\n # The test implementation goes here\n datasette = Datasette()\n response = await datasette.client.get(\"/error\")\n assert response.status_code == 500\n finally:\n pm.unregister(name=\"undo\") \n To reuse the same temporary plugin in multiple tests, you can register it inside a fixture in your conftest.py file like this: \n from datasette import hookimpl\nfrom datasette.app import Datasette\nfrom datasette.plugins import pm\nimport pytest\nimport pytest_asyncio\n\n\n@pytest_asyncio.fixture\nasync def datasette_with_plugin():\n class TestPlugin:\n __name__ = \"TestPlugin\"\n\n @hookimpl\n def register_routes(self):\n return [\n (r\"^/error$\", lambda: 1 / 0),\n ]\n\n pm.register(TestPlugin(), name=\"undo\")\n try:\n yield Datasette()\n finally:\n pm.unregister(name=\"undo\")\n \n Note the yield statement here - this ensures that the finally: block that unregisters the plugin is executed only after the test function itself has completed. \n Then in a test: \n @pytest.mark.asyncio\nasync def test_error(datasette_with_plugin):\n response = await datasette_with_plugin.client.get(\"/error\")\n assert response.status_code == 500", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Testing plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:customization", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "customization", "title": "Custom pages and templates", "content": "Datasette provides a number of ways of customizing the way data is displayed.", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:css-classes-on-the-body", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "css-classes-on-the-body", "title": "CSS classes on the ", "content": "Every default template includes CSS classes in the body designed to support\n custom styling. \n The index template (the top level page at / ) gets this: \n \n The database template ( /dbname ) gets this: \n \n The custom SQL template ( /dbname?sql=... ) gets this: \n \n A canned query template ( /dbname/queryname ) gets this: \n \n The table template ( /dbname/tablename ) gets: \n \n The row template ( /dbname/tablename/rowid ) gets: \n \n The db-x and table-x classes use the database or table names themselves if\n they are valid CSS identifiers. If they aren't, we strip any invalid\n characters out and append a 6 character md5 digest of the original name, in\n order to ensure that multiple tables which resolve to the same stripped\n character version still have different CSS classes. \n Some examples: \n \"simple\" => \"simple\"\n\"MixedCase\" => \"MixedCase\"\n\"-no-leading-hyphens\" => \"no-leading-hyphens-65bea6\"\n\"_no-leading-underscores\" => \"no-leading-underscores-b921bc\"\n\"no spaces\" => \"no-spaces-7088d7\"\n\"-\" => \"336d5e\"\n\"no $ characters\" => \"no--characters-59e024\" \n and elements also get custom CSS classes reflecting the\n database column they are representing, for example: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
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", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:customization-static-files", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "customization-static-files", "title": "Serving static files", "content": "Datasette can serve static files for you, using the --static option.\n Consider the following directory structure: \n metadata.json\nstatic-files/styles.css\nstatic-files/app.js \n You can start Datasette using --static assets:static-files/ to serve those\n files from the /assets/ mount point: \n datasette --config datasette.yaml --static assets:static-files/ --memory \n The following URLs will now serve the content from those CSS and JS files: \n http://localhost:8001/assets/styles.css\nhttp://localhost:8001/assets/app.js \n You can reference those files from datasette.yaml like this, see custom CSS and JavaScript for more details: \n [[[cog\nfrom metadata_doc import config_example\nconfig_example(cog, \"\"\"\n extra_css_urls:\n - /assets/styles.css\n extra_js_urls:\n - /assets/app.js\n\"\"\") \n ]]] \n [[[end]]]", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:publishing-static-assets", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "publishing-static-assets", "title": "Publishing static assets", "content": "The datasette publish command can be used to publish your static assets,\n using the same syntax as above: \n datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --static assets:static-files/ \n This will upload the contents of the static-files/ directory as part of the\n deployment, and configure Datasette to correctly serve the assets from /assets/ .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:id1", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "id1", "title": "Custom pages", "content": "You can add templated pages to your Datasette instance by creating HTML files in a pages directory within your templates directory. \n For example, to add a custom page that is served at http://localhost/about you would create a file in templates/pages/about.html , then start Datasette like this: \n datasette mydb.db --template-dir=templates/ \n You can nest directories within pages to create a nested structure. To create a http://localhost:8001/about/map page you would create templates/pages/about/map.html .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\", \"Publishing static assets\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-headers", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-headers", "title": "Custom headers and status codes", "content": "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. \n 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: \n {{ custom_status(418) }}\n\nTeapot\n\nI'm a teapot\n\n \n To serve a custom HTTP header, add a custom_header(name, value) function call. For example: \n {{ custom_status(418) }}\n{{ custom_header(\"x-teapot\", \"I am\") }}\n\nTeapot\n\nI'm a teapot\n\n \n You can verify this is working using curl like this: \n curl -I 'http://127.0.0.1:8001/teapot'\nHTTP/1.1 418\ndate: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:38:30 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\nx-teapot: I am\ncontent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-404", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-404", "title": "Returning 404s", "content": "To indicate that content could not be found and display the default 404 page you can use the raise_404(message) function: \n {% if not rows %}\n {{ raise_404(\"Content not found\") }}\n{% endif %} \n If you call raise_404() the other content in your template will be ignored.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-redirects", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-redirects", "title": "Custom redirects", "content": "You can use the custom_redirect(location) function to redirect users to another page, for example in a file called pages/datasette.html : \n {{ custom_redirect(\"https://github.com/simonw/datasette\") }} \n Now requests to http://localhost:8001/datasette will result in a redirect. \n These redirects are served with a 302 Found status code by default. You can send a 301 Moved Permanently code by passing 301 as the second argument to the function: \n {{ custom_redirect(\"https://github.com/simonw/datasette\", 301) }}", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:id1", "page": "settings", "ref": "id1", "title": "Settings", "content": "", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:using-setting", "page": "settings", "ref": "using-setting", "title": "Using --setting", "content": "Datasette supports a number of settings. These can be set using the --setting name value option to datasette serve . \n You can set multiple settings at once like this: \n datasette mydatabase.db \\\n --setting default_page_size 50 \\\n --setting sql_time_limit_ms 3500 \\\n --setting max_returned_rows 2000 \n Settings can also be specified in the database.yaml configuration file .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:config-dir", "page": "settings", "ref": "config-dir", "title": "Configuration directory mode", "content": "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: \n datasette one.db two.db \\\n --metadata=metadata.json \\\n --template-dir=templates/ \\\n --plugins-dir=plugins \\\n --static css:css \n As an alternative to this, you can run Datasette in configuration directory mode. Create a directory with the following structure: \n # In a directory called my-app:\nmy-app/one.db\nmy-app/two.db\nmy-app/datasette.yaml\nmy-app/metadata.json\nmy-app/templates/index.html\nmy-app/plugins/my_plugin.py\nmy-app/static/my.css \n Now start Datasette by providing the path to that directory: \n datasette my-app/ \n 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. \n The files that can be included in this directory are as follows. All are optional. \n \n \n *.db (or *.sqlite3 or *.sqlite ) - SQLite database files that will be served by Datasette \n \n \n datasette.yaml - Configuration for the Datasette instance \n \n \n metadata.json - Metadata for those databases - metadata.yaml or metadata.yml can be used as well \n \n \n 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 \n \n \n templates/ - a directory containing Custom templates \n \n \n plugins/ - a directory containing plugins, see Writing one-off plugins \n \n \n static/ - a directory containing static files - these will be served from /static/filename.txt , see Serving static files", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:id2", "page": "settings", "ref": "id2", "title": "Settings", "content": "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 .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-default-allow-sql", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-default-allow-sql", "title": "default_allow_sql", "content": "Should users be able to execute arbitrary SQL queries by default? \n Setting this to off causes permission checks for execute-sql to fail by default. \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_allow_sql off \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-default-page-size", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-default-page-size", "title": "default_page_size", "content": "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: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_page_size 50", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-sql-time-limit-ms", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-sql-time-limit-ms", "title": "sql_time_limit_ms", "content": "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. \n 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: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting sql_time_limit_ms 3500 \n You can optionally set a lower time limit for an individual query using the ?_timelimit=100 query string argument: \n /my-database/my-table?qSpecies=44&_timelimit=100 \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-max-returned-rows", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-max-returned-rows", "title": "max_returned_rows", "content": "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. \n You can increase or decrease this limit like so: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_returned_rows 2000", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-max-insert-rows", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-max-insert-rows", "title": "max_insert_rows", "content": "Maximum rows that can be inserted at a time using the bulk insert API, see Inserting rows . Defaults to 100. \n You can increase or decrease this limit like so: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_insert_rows 1000", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-allow-facet", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-allow-facet", "title": "allow_facet", "content": "Allow users to specify columns they would like to facet on using the ?_facet=COLNAME URL parameter to the table view. \n 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. \n Here's how to disable this feature: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_facet off", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-default-facet-size", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-default-facet-size", "title": "default_facet_size", "content": "The default number of unique rows returned by Facets is 30. You can customize it like this: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_facet_size 50", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-facet-time-limit-ms", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-facet-time-limit-ms", "title": "facet_time_limit_ms", "content": "This is the time limit Datasette allows for calculating a facet, which defaults to 200ms: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting facet_time_limit_ms 1000", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-facet-suggest-time-limit-ms", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-facet-suggest-time-limit-ms", "title": "facet_suggest_time_limit_ms", "content": "When Datasette calculates suggested facets it needs to run a SQL query for every column in your table. The default for this time limit is 50ms to account for the fact that it needs to run once for every column. If the time limit is exceeded the column will not be suggested as a facet. \n You can increase this time limit like so: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting facet_suggest_time_limit_ms 500", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-suggest-facets", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-suggest-facets", "title": "suggest_facets", "content": "Should Datasette calculate suggested facets? On by default, turn this off like so: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting suggest_facets off", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-allow-download", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-allow-download", "title": "allow_download", "content": "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: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_download off", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-allow-signed-tokens", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-allow-signed-tokens", "title": "allow_signed_tokens", "content": "Should users be able to create signed API tokens to access Datasette? \n This is turned on by default. Use the following to turn it off: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_signed_tokens off \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-max-signed-tokens-ttl", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-max-signed-tokens-ttl", "title": "max_signed_tokens_ttl", "content": "Maximum allowed expiry time for signed API tokens created by users. \n Defaults to 0 which means no limit - tokens can be created that will never expire. \n 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: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_signed_tokens_ttl 86400 \n This setting is enforced when incoming tokens are processed.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-default-cache-ttl", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-default-cache-ttl", "title": "default_cache_ttl", "content": "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. \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting default_cache_ttl 60", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-allow-csv-stream", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-allow-csv-stream", "title": "allow_csv_stream", "content": "Enables the CSV export feature where an entire table\n (potentially hundreds of thousands of rows) can be exported as a single CSV\n file. This is turned on by default - you can turn it off like this: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting allow_csv_stream off", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-max-csv-mb", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-max-csv-mb", "title": "max_csv_mb", "content": "The maximum size of CSV that can be exported, in megabytes. Defaults to 100MB.\n You can disable the limit entirely by settings this to 0: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting max_csv_mb 0", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-truncate-cells-html", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-truncate-cells-html", "title": "truncate_cells_html", "content": "In the HTML table view, truncate any strings that are longer than this value.\n The full value will still be available in CSV, JSON and on the individual row\n HTML page. Set this to 0 to disable truncation. \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting truncate_cells_html 0", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-force-https-urls", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-force-https-urls", "title": "force_https_urls", "content": "Forces self-referential URLs in the JSON output to always use the https:// \n protocol. This is useful for cases where the application itself is hosted using\n HTTP but is served to the outside world via a proxy that enables HTTPS. \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting force_https_urls 1", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-base-url", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-base-url", "title": "base_url", "content": "If you are running Datasette behind a proxy, it may be useful to change the root path used for the Datasette instance. \n 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. \n You can do that like so: \n datasette mydatabase.db --setting base_url /tools/datasette/", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\", \"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-secret", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-secret", "title": "Configuring the secret", "content": "Datasette uses a secret string to sign secure values such as cookies. \n 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. \n You can pass a secret to Datasette in two ways: with the --secret command-line option or by setting a DATASETTE_SECRET environment variable. \n datasette mydb.db --secret=SECRET_VALUE_HERE \n Or: \n export DATASETTE_SECRET=SECRET_VALUE_HERE\ndatasette mydb.db \n One way to generate a secure random secret is to use Python like this: \n python3 -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))'\ncdb19e94283a20f9d42cca50c5a4871c0aa07392db308755d60a1a5b9bb0fa52 \n Plugin authors make use of this signing mechanism in their plugins using .sign(value, namespace=\"default\") and .unsign(value, namespace=\"default\") .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "settings:setting-publish-secrets", "page": "settings", "ref": "setting-publish-secrets", "title": "Using secrets with datasette publish", "content": "The datasette publish and datasette package commands both generate a secret for you automatically when Datasette is deployed. \n 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. \n You can fix this by creating a secret that will be used for multiple deploys and passing it using the --secret option: \n datasette publish cloudrun mydb.db --service=my-service --secret=cdb19e94283a20f9d42cca5", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Settings\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "performance:performance", "page": "performance", "ref": "performance", "title": "Performance and caching", "content": "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. \n That said, there are a number of tricks you can use to improve Datasette's performance.", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "performance:performance-immutable-mode", "page": "performance", "ref": "performance-immutable-mode", "title": "Immutable mode", "content": "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 . \n Doing so will disable all locking and change detection, which can result in improved query performance. \n This also enables further optimizations relating to HTTP caching, described below. \n To open a file in immutable mode pass it to the datasette command using the -i option: \n datasette -i data.db \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Performance and caching\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "performance:performance-inspect", "page": "performance", "ref": "performance-inspect", "title": "Using \"datasette inspect\"", "content": "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. \n 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. \n To create a JSON file containing the calculated row counts for a database, use the following: \n datasette inspect data.db --inspect-file=counts.json \n 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: \n datasette -i data.db --inspect-file=counts.json \n You need to use the -i immutable mode against the database file here or the counts from the JSON file will be ignored. \n 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.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Performance and caching\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "contributing:id1", "page": "contributing", "ref": "id1", "title": "Contributing", "content": "Datasette is an open source project. We welcome contributions! \n This document describes how to contribute to Datasette core. You can also contribute to the wider Datasette ecosystem by creating new Plugins .", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "contributing:general-guidelines", "page": "contributing", "ref": "general-guidelines", "title": "General guidelines", "content": "main should always be releasable . Incomplete features should live in branches. This ensures that any small bug fixes can be quickly released. \n \n \n The ideal commit should bundle together the implementation, unit tests and associated documentation updates. The commit message should link to an associated issue. \n \n \n New plugin hooks should only be shipped if accompanied by a separate release of a non-demo plugin that uses them.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Contributing\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "contributing:contributing-using-fixtures", "page": "contributing", "ref": "contributing-using-fixtures", "title": "Using fixtures", "content": "To run Datasette itself, type datasette . \n 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. \n You can create a copy of that database by running this command: \n python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db \n Now you can run Datasette against the new fixtures database like so: \n datasette fixtures.db \n This will start a server at http://127.0.0.1:8001/ . \n 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). \n 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: \n datasette --reload fixtures.db \n You can also use the fixtures.py script to recreate the testing version of metadata.json used by the unit tests. To do that: \n python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures-metadata.json \n Or to output the plugins used by the tests, run this: \n python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures-metadata.json fixtures-plugins\nTest tables written to fixtures.db\n- metadata written to fixtures-metadata.json\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/register_output_renderer.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/view_name.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/my_plugin.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/messages_output_renderer.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/my_plugin_2.py \n Then run Datasette like this: \n datasette fixtures.db -m fixtures-metadata.json --plugins-dir=fixtures-plugins/", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Contributing\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "contributing:contributing-debugging", "page": "contributing", "ref": "contributing-debugging", "title": "Debugging", "content": "Any errors that occur while Datasette is running while display a stack trace on the console. \n You can tell Datasette to open an interactive pdb debugger session if an error occurs using the --pdb option: \n datasette --pdb fixtures.db", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Contributing\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "contributing:contributing-formatting-black", "page": "contributing", "ref": "contributing-formatting-black", "title": "Running Black", "content": "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: \n black . --check \n All done! \u2728 \ud83c\udf70 \u2728\n95 files would be left unchanged. \n If any of your code does not conform to Black you can run this to automatically fix those problems: \n black . \n reformatted ../datasette/setup.py\nAll done! \u2728 \ud83c\udf70 \u2728\n1 file reformatted, 94 files left unchanged.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Contributing\", \"Code formatting\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:internals", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals", "title": "Internals for plugins", "content": "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.", "breadcrumbs": "[]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:internals-multiparams", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-multiparams", "title": "The MultiParams class", "content": "request.args is a MultiParams object - a dictionary-like object which provides access to query string parameters that may have multiple values. \n Consider the query string ?foo=1&foo=2&bar=3 - with two values for foo and one value for bar . \n \n \n request.args[key] - string \n \n Returns the first value for that key, or raises a KeyError if the key is missing. For the above example request.args[\"foo\"] would return \"1\" . \n \n \n \n request.args.get(key) - string or None \n \n Returns the first value for that key, or None if the key is missing. Pass a second argument to specify a different default, e.g. q = request.args.get(\"q\", \"\") . \n \n \n \n request.args.getlist(key) - list of strings \n \n Returns the list of strings for that key. request.args.getlist(\"foo\") would return [\"1\", \"2\"] in the above example. request.args.getlist(\"bar\") would return [\"3\"] . If the key is missing an empty list will be returned. \n \n \n \n request.args.keys() - list of strings \n \n Returns the list of available keys - for the example this would be [\"foo\", \"bar\"] . \n \n \n \n key in request.args - True or False \n \n You can use if key in request.args to check if a key is present. \n \n \n \n for key in request.args - iterator \n \n This lets you loop through every available key. \n \n \n \n len(request.args) - integer \n \n Returns the number of keys.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:internals-response", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-response", "title": "Response class", "content": "The Response class can be returned from view functions that have been registered using the register_routes(datasette) hook. \n The Response() constructor takes the following arguments: \n \n \n body - string \n \n The body of the response. \n \n \n \n status - integer (optional) \n \n The HTTP status - defaults to 200. \n \n \n \n headers - dictionary (optional) \n \n A dictionary of extra HTTP headers, e.g. {\"x-hello\": \"world\"} . \n \n \n \n content_type - string (optional) \n \n The content-type for the response. Defaults to text/plain . \n \n \n \n For example: \n from datasette.utils.asgi import Response\n\nresponse = Response(\n \"This is XML\",\n content_type=\"application/xml; charset=utf-8\",\n) \n The quickest way to create responses is using the Response.text(...) , Response.html(...) , Response.json(...) or Response.redirect(...) helper methods: \n from datasette.utils.asgi import Response\n\nhtml_response = Response.html(\"This is HTML\")\njson_response = Response.json({\"this_is\": \"json\"})\ntext_response = Response.text(\n \"This will become utf-8 encoded text\"\n)\n# Redirects are served as 302, unless you pass status=301:\nredirect_response = Response.redirect(\n \"https://latest.datasette.io/\"\n) \n 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. \n Each of the helper methods take optional status= and headers= arguments, documented above.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:internals-response-asgi-send", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-response-asgi-send", "title": "Returning a response with .asgi_send(send)", "content": "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. \n Create a Response object and then use await response.asgi_send(send) , passing the ASGI send function. For example: \n async def require_authorization(scope, receive, send):\n response = Response.text(\n \"401 Authorization Required\",\n headers={\n \"www-authenticate\": 'Basic realm=\"Datasette\", charset=\"UTF-8\"'\n },\n status=401,\n )\n await response.asgi_send(send)", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Response class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:internals-response-set-cookie", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-response-set-cookie", "title": "Setting cookies with response.set_cookie()", "content": "To set cookies on the response, use the response.set_cookie(...) method. The method signature looks like this: \n def set_cookie(\n self,\n key,\n value=\"\",\n max_age=None,\n expires=None,\n path=\"/\",\n domain=None,\n secure=False,\n httponly=False,\n samesite=\"lax\",\n): ... \n 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 : \n response = Response.redirect(\"/\")\nresponse.set_cookie(\n \"ds_actor\",\n datasette.sign({\"a\": {\"id\": \"cleopaws\"}}, \"actor\"),\n)\nreturn response", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Response class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:internals-datasette", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-datasette", "title": "Datasette class", "content": "This object is an instance of the Datasette class, passed to many plugin hooks as an argument called datasette . \n You can create your own instance of this - for example to help write tests for a plugin - like so: \n from datasette.app import Datasette\n\n# With no arguments a single in-memory database will be attached\ndatasette = Datasette()\n\n# The files= argument can load files from disk\ndatasette = Datasette(files=[\"/path/to/my-database.db\"])\n\n# Pass metadata as a JSON dictionary like this\ndatasette = Datasette(\n files=[\"/path/to/my-database.db\"],\n metadata={\n \"databases\": {\n \"my-database\": {\n \"description\": \"This is my database\"\n }\n }\n },\n) \n Constructor parameters include: \n \n \n files=[...] - a list of database files to open \n \n \n immutables=[...] - a list of database files to open in immutable mode \n \n \n metadata={...} - a dictionary of Metadata \n \n \n config_dir=... - the configuration directory to use, stored in datasette.config_dir", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:datasette-databases", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-databases", "title": ".databases", "content": "Property exposing a collections.OrderedDict of databases currently connected to Datasette. \n 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. \n All databases are listed, irrespective of user permissions.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:datasette-permissions", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-permissions", "title": ".permissions", "content": "Property exposing a dictionary of permissions that have been registered using the register_permissions(datasette) plugin hook. \n 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 .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:datasette-plugin-config", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-plugin-config", "title": ".plugin_config(plugin_name, database=None, table=None)", "content": "plugin_name - string \n \n The name of the plugin to look up configuration for. Usually this is something similar to datasette-cluster-map . \n \n \n \n database - None or string \n \n The database the user is interacting with. \n \n \n \n table - None or string \n \n The table the user is interacting with. \n \n \n \n This method lets you read plugin configuration values that were set in datasette.yaml . See Writing plugins that accept configuration for full details of how this method should be used. \n The return value will be the value from the configuration file - usually a dictionary. \n If the plugin is not configured the return value will be None .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:datasette-actors-from-ids", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-actors-from-ids", "title": "await .actors_from_ids(actor_ids)", "content": "actor_ids - list of strings or integers \n \n A list of actor IDs to look up. \n \n \n \n Returns a dictionary, where the keys are the IDs passed to it and the values are the corresponding actor dictionaries. \n This method is mainly designed to be used with plugins. See the actors_from_ids(datasette, actor_ids) documentation for details. \n If no plugins that implement that hook are installed, the default return value looks like this: \n {\n \"1\": {\"id\": \"1\"},\n \"2\": {\"id\": \"2\"}\n}", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:datasette-permission-allowed", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-permission-allowed", "title": "await .permission_allowed(actor, action, resource=None, default=...)", "content": "actor - dictionary \n \n The authenticated actor. This is usually request.actor . \n \n \n \n action - string \n \n The name of the action that is being permission checked. \n \n \n \n resource - string or tuple, optional \n \n The resource, e.g. the name of the database, or a tuple of two strings containing the name of the database and the name of the table. Only some permissions apply to a resource. \n \n \n \n default - optional: True, False or None \n \n What value should be returned by default if nothing provides an opinion on this permission check.\n Set to True for default allow or False for default deny.\n If not specified the default from the Permission() tuple that was registered using register_permissions(datasette) will be used. \n \n \n \n Check if the given actor has permission to perform the given action on the given resource. \n Some permission checks are carried out against rules defined in datasette.yaml , while other custom permissions may be decided by plugins that implement the permission_allowed(datasette, actor, action, resource) plugin hook. \n If neither metadata.json nor any of the plugins provide an answer to the permission query the default argument will be returned. \n See Built-in permissions for a full list of permission actions included in Datasette core.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "internals:datasette-ensure-permissions", "page": "internals", "ref": "datasette-ensure-permissions", "title": "await .ensure_permissions(actor, permissions)", "content": "actor - dictionary \n \n The authenticated actor. This is usually request.actor . \n \n \n \n permissions - list \n \n A list of permissions to check. Each permission in that list can be a string action name or a 2-tuple of (action, resource) . \n \n \n \n This method allows multiple permissions to be checked at once. It raises a datasette.Forbidden exception if any of the checks are denied before one of them is explicitly granted. \n This is useful when you need to check multiple permissions at once. For example, an actor should be able to view a table if either one of the following checks returns True or not a single one of them returns False : \n await datasette.ensure_permissions(\n request.actor,\n [\n (\"view-table\", (database, table)),\n (\"view-database\", database),\n \"view-instance\",\n ],\n)", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Datasette class\"]", "references": "[]"}