datasette-selective-image-display 0.1

A plugin for Datasette that allows users to select columns where they want image urls to render as images.

datasette-selective-image-display

A plugin for Datasette that renders columns of image urls which you select as images (with the link displayed beneath the image).

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-selective-image-display

Usage

Create the metadata.yml file alongside your database, and add the names of the columns which you would like to have display images like so:

databases:
  your-database:
    tables:
      your-table:
        plugins:
          datasette-selective-image-display:
            columns: [image_url, thumbnail]

Then run with datasette phitt.db --metadata metadata.yml.

If no columns are specified then all columns where images are detected will be renderde.

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. You can confirm it is available like this:

cd datasette-selective-image-display
# Confirm the plugin is visible
uv run datasette plugins

To run the tests:

uv run pytest