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* Move making queries to own page, refs #7
* Documentation for the dclient insert feature, refs #8
* Implemented progress bar for insert, refs #8
* --pk option
* --ignore and --replace for insert, refs #8
* --batch-size option, refs #8
* First insert test, using a mock - refs #8
* insert test that exercises against an in-memory Datasette instance, refs #8
* Insert tests now cover an error case, refs #8
* Tests for --ignore and --replace, refs #8
* Tests for different formats, refs #8
* Test for --no-detect-types
* Support for --encoding, refs #8

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dclient

A client CLI utility for Datasette instances

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)

Installation

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

Running a query

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

Documentation

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

Development

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

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