1,455 posts tagged “datasette”
Datasette is an open source tool for exploring and publishing data.
2022
Weeknotes: datasette-ephemeral-tables, datasette-export
Most of what I’ve been working on for the past week and a half is already documented:
[... 603 words]Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0
This week I published the first alpha release of Datasette 1.0, with a significant new feature: Datasette core now includes a JSON API for creating and dropping tables and inserting, updating and deleting data.
[... 2,817 words]Weeknotes: Implementing a write API, Mastodon distractions
Everything is so distracting at the moment. The ongoing Twitter catastrophe, the great migration (at least amongst most of the people I pay attention to) to Mastodon, the FTX calamity. It’s been very hard to focus!
[... 916 words]Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time with a bucket of tricks
Mastodon is definitely having a moment. User growth is skyrocketing as more and more people migrate over from Twitter.
[... 1,534 words]Datasette Lite: Loading JSON data (via) I added a new feature to Datasette Lite: you can now pass it the URL to a JSON file (hosted on a CORS-compatible hosting provider such as GitHub or GitHub Gists) and it will load that file into a database table for you. It expects an array of objects, but if your file has an object as the root it will search through it looking for the first key that is an array of objects and load those instead.
Datasette is 5 today: a call for birthday presents
Five years ago today I published the first release of Datasette, in Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases.
[... 548 words]Designing a write API for Datasette
Building out Datasette Cloud has made one thing clear to me: Datasette needs a write API for ingesting new data into its attached SQLite databases.
[... 1,493 words]Datasette 0.63: The annotated release notes
I released Datasette 0.63 today. These are the annotated release notes.
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