Archive for Tuesday, 23rd June 2020

Tuesday, 23rd June 2020

Release sqlite-generate 0.2 — Tool for generating demo SQLite databases

23rd Jun 2020, 1:08 am

Release sqlite-generate 0.3 — Tool for generating demo SQLite databases

23rd Jun 2020, 2:17 am

sqlite-generate (via) I wrote this tool today to generate arbitrarily large SQLite databases, for testing purposes. You tell it how many tables, columns and rows you want and it will use the Faker Python library to generate random data and populate the tables with it.

# 2:19 am / projects, sqlite

click-app. While working on sqlite-generate today I built a cookiecutter template for building the skeleton for Click command-line utilities. It’s based on datasette-plugin so it automatically sets up GitHub Actions for running tests and deploying packages to PyPI.

# 2:21 am / projects, python, cookiecutter

Release datasette-block-robots 0.1 — Datasette plugin that blocks robots and crawlers using robots.txt

23rd Jun 2020, 2:53 am · datasette

Release sqlite-generate 0.3.1 — Tool for generating demo SQLite databases

23rd Jun 2020, 3:26 am

datasette-block-robots. Another little Datasette plugin: this one adds a /robots.txt page with Disallow: / to block all indexing of a Datasette instance from respectable search engine crawlers. I built this in less than ten minutes from idea to deploy to PyPI thanks to the datasette-plugin cookiecutter template.

# 3:28 am / crawling, plugins, projects, robots-txt, seo, datasette