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Weeknotes: Mainly Datasette 0.50

10th October 2020

Most of what I’ve been up to this week is covered in Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes and Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository.

I just pushed out Datasette 0.50.1 to fix a nasty broken link bug in 0.50.

I recorded a 12 minute video talk for JupyterCon: Using Datasette with Jupyter to publish your data. That will be streamed on Monday and I’ll be answering questions and hanging out during the online conference.

I started Git scraping CA fires data to simonw/ca-fires-history and NHS risk venue alerts to simonw/nhs-risky-venues.

I had a pull request accepted to httpx adding raw_path support to the ASGI request emulation layer. I’ll be using that in Datasette as soon as the next httpx version is released.

TIL this week

• Manipulating query strings with URLSearchParams
• Running Datasette on DigitalOcean App Platform
• Searching for repositories by topic using the GitHub GraphQL API

Releases this week

• datasette 0.50.2—2020-10-10
• datasette 0.50.1—2020-10-10
• datasette 0.50—2020-10-09
• datasette 0.50a1—2020-10-06