sqlite-utils-ask

Ask questions of your data with LLM assistance

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as sqlite-utils.

sqlite-utils install sqlite-utils-ask

sqlite-utils ask

Ask questions of a SQLite database file like this:

sqlite-utils ask content.db 'How many repos?'

The tool will use an LLM (gpt-4o-mini by default) to generate the appropriate SQL query by passing through your question and the database schema, and will then execute the query and return the result.

sqlite-utils ask-files

You can also ask questions directly of CSV, TSV or JSON files. These will be imported into an in-memory SQLite database prior to running the query.

sqlite-utils ask-files data.csv 'How many repos?'

You can pass multiple files and run queries across multiple resulting tables.

sqlite-utils ask-files legislators.csv votes.csv 'How many votes did each legislator cast?'

Development

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

cd sqlite-utils-ask
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

To capture new HTTP interactions, run:

PYTEST_OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key python -m pytest --record-mode once

Or use --record-mode all to re-record all interactions.