dclient

A client CLI utility for Datasette instances.

Much of the functionality requires Datasette 1.0a2 or higher.

Things you can do with dclient

Run SQL queries against Datasette and returning the results as JSON
Run queries against authenticated Datasette instances
Create aliases and store authentication tokens for convenient access to Datasette
Insert data into Datasette using the insert API (Datasette 1.0 alpha or higher)

Install this tool using pip:

pip install dclient

If you want to install it in the same virtual environment as Datasette (to use it as a plugin) you can instead run:

datasette install dclient

dclient query https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures "select * from facetable limit 1"

To shorten that, create an alias:

dclient alias add fixtures https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures

Then run it like this instead:

dclient query fixtures "select * from facetable limit 1"

Visit dclient.datasette.io for full documentation on using this tool.

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd dclient
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest