datasette-short-links

A URL link shortener for Datasette. Work in progress!

Installation

This plugin requires an alpha version of Datasette 1.0, because it uses Datasette's internal database introduced in 1.0a5.

pip install datasette==1.0a5

After than, you can install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-short-links

Usage

Once installed, the bottom of each page with have a "Copy URL" button at the bottom of that page. That URL will link directly back to the same page.

A short URL will look something like: http://localhost:8001/-/l/01h973jcqspxrhzy00zebhx748

To take full advantage of this plugin, use a persistent internal database to store links even after your Datasette instance exits. This can be done with the --internal flag:

datasette --internal internal.db my_data.db

Development

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

cd datasette-short-links
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest