A URL link shortener for Datasette. Work in progress!
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
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
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