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Datasette is an open source tool for exploring and publishing data.

2022

Analyzing ScotRail audio announcements with Datasette—from prototype to production

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Scottish train operator ScotRail released a two-hour long MP3 file containing all of the components of its automated station announcements. Messing around with them is proving to be a huge amount of fun.

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Release datasette-mp3-audio 0.2 — Turn .mp3 URLs into an audio player in the Datasette interface
Release datasette-mp3-audio 0.1 — Turn .mp3 URLs into an audio player in the Datasette interface

The Datasette Newsletter: Datasette Lite, Datasette Tutorials, Datasette Cloud. It’s been quite a while since I’ve sent one of these out now—hoping to get this on to a more regular schedule.

# 19th August 2022, 1:20 am / datasette

Plugin support for Datasette Lite

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I’ve added a new feature to Datasette Lite, my distribution of Datasette that runs entirely in the browser using Python and SQLite compiled to WebAssembly. You can now install additional Datasette plugins by passing them in the URL.

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Release datasette-sentry 0.2 — Datasette plugin for configuring Sentry
Release datasette-sentry 0.2a1 — Datasette plugin for configuring Sentry
Release datasette 0.62 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Litestream backups for Datasette Cloud (and weeknotes)

My main focus this week has been adding robust backups to the forthcoming Datasette Cloud.

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datasette on Open Source Insights (via) Open Source Insights is "an experimental service developed and hosted by Google to help developers better understand the structure, security, and construction of open source software packages". It calculates scores for packages using various automated heuristics. A JSON version of the resulting score card can be accessed using https://deps.dev/_/s/pypi/p/{package_name}/v/

# 11th August 2022, 1:06 am / open-source, security, datasette

Release datasette-scale-to-zero 0.2 — Quit Datasette if it has not received traffic for a specified time period

Introducing sqlite-html: query, parse, and generate HTML in SQLite (via) Another brilliant SQLite extension module from Alex Garcia, this time written in Go. sqlite-html adds a whole family of functions to SQLite for parsing and constructing HTML strings, built on the Go goquery and cascadia libraries. Once again, Alex uses an Observable notebook to describe the new features, with embedded interactive examples that are backed by a Datasette instance running in Fly.

# 3rd August 2022, 5:31 pm / sqlite, datasette, go, html, alex-garcia

Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette (via) I wrote a new tutorial for the Datasette website, showing how to use sqlite-utils to import a CSV file, clean up the resulting schema, fix date formats and extract some of the columns into a separate table. It’s accompanied by a ten minute video originally recorded for the HYTRADBOI conference.

# 31st July 2022, 7:57 pm / tutorials, sqlite-utils, datasette, documentation

Release datasette-sqlite-fts4 0.3.2 — Datasette plugin that adds custom SQL functions for working with SQLite FTS4

Weeknotes: Joining the board of the Python Software Foundation

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A few weeks ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation.

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Release datasette-sqlite-fts4 0.3.1 — Datasette plugin that adds custom SQL functions for working with SQLite FTS4
Release datasette-publish-vercel 0.14.1 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Vercel
Release datasette-insert 0.8 — Datasette plugin for inserting and updating data

Weeknotes: Datasette, sqlite-utils, Datasette Desktop

A flurry of releases this week, including a new Datasette alpha and a fixed Datasette Desktop.

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Release datasette-graphql 2.1.1 — Datasette plugin providing an automatic GraphQL API for your SQLite databases
Release datasette-sentry 0.2a0 — Datasette plugin for configuring Sentry
Release datasette 0.62a1 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette Discord community (via) I started a Discord chat community for Datasette. 57 people have joined up already!

# 15th July 2022, 3:17 am / discord, datasette

Release datasette-publish-vercel 0.14 — Datasette plugin for publishing data using Vercel
Release datasette-app 0.2.2 — The Datasette macOS application
Release datasette-app-support 0.11.6 — Part of https://github.com/simonw/datasette-app
Release datasette-ics 0.5.2 — Datasette plugin for outputting iCalendar files

sqlite-comprehend: run AWS entity extraction against content in a SQLite database

I built a new tool this week: sqlite-comprehend, which passes text from a SQLite database through the AWS Comprehend entity extraction service and stores the returned entities.

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Release datasette-redirect-to-https 0.2 — Datasette plugin that redirects all non-https requests to https
Release datasette-unsafe-expose-env 0.1.1 — Datasette plugin to expose some environment variables at /-/env for debugging