Export Datasette records in a form that the DataTables library understands.

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette. Note that this plugin is built against the development version of datasette, not the one released on PyPi.

$ datasette install datasette-datatable

Having installed this plugin, every table and query will gain a new .datatable export link.

You can also construct these URLs directly: /dbname/tablename.datatable

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

cd datasette-datatable
python3 -mvenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Or if you are using pipenv:

pipenv shell

Now install the dependencies and tests:

pip install https://github.com/simonw/datasette/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest