dclient/docs/queries.md

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# Running queries
You can run SQL queries against a Datasette instance like this:
```bash
dclient query https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures "select * from facetable limit 1"
```
Output:
```json
[
{
"pk": 1,
"created": "2019-01-14 08:00:00",
"planet_int": 1,
"on_earth": 1,
"state": "CA",
"_city_id": 1,
"_neighborhood": "Mission",
"tags": "[\"tag1\", \"tag2\"]",
"complex_array": "[{\"foo\": \"bar\"}]",
"distinct_some_null": "one",
"n": "n1"
}
]
```
## dclient query --help
<!-- [[[cog
import cog
from dclient import cli
from click.testing import CliRunner
runner = CliRunner()
result = runner.invoke(cli.cli, ["query", "--help"])
help = result.output.replace("Usage: cli", "Usage: dclient")
cog.out(
"```\n{}\n```".format(help)
)
]]] -->
```
Usage: dclient query [OPTIONS] URL_OR_ALIAS SQL
Run a SQL query against a Datasette database URL
Returns a JSON array of objects
Options:
-t, --token TEXT API token
--help Show this message and exit.
```
<!-- [[[end]]] -->