datasette-os-info

Provide information about the current OS at /-/os

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-os-info

Usage

This plugin adds a /-/os page to your Datasette instance that returns detailed information about the operating system, formatted as pretty-printed JSON.

⚠️ Security Warning: This endpoint exposes system information including hostnames, usernames, filesystem paths, and environment variables. Review the output before deploying on a public instance.

Visit /-/os on your Datasette instance to see comprehensive OS information including:

• Platform details: System type, release, version, machine architecture, processor
• Python information: Version, implementation, executable path
• Container detection: Docker, Kubernetes, LXC detection
• Linux-specific information (when running on Linux):
  • Distribution details from /etc/os-release (name, version, codename)
  • Debian/Alpine/RedHat version information
  • Kernel information
  • CPU model and count
  • Memory statistics
  • Docker base image detection
• macOS-specific information (when running on macOS):
  • macOS version details
• Windows-specific information (when running on Windows):
  • Windows version and edition
• Environment variables: Useful variables like SHELL, TERM, USER, HOME, PATH, LANG, VIRTUAL_ENV

Example:

datasette install datasette-os-info
datasette
# Then visit http://localhost:8001/-/os

You can also view the output from the command line:

datasette --get /-/os

The JSON output is automatically pretty-printed for easy reading.

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd datasette-os-info
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest