issues: 1117132741
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| 1117132741 | I_kwDOBm6k_c5ClhfF | 1615 | Potential simplified publishing mechanism | 369053 | closed | 0 | 2 | 2022-01-28T08:34:50Z | 2022-02-02T07:34:21Z | 2022-02-02T07:34:17Z | NONE | Hi, Forewarning: this idea is one I've only been thinking about for a while and it's not fully fleshed-out yet. I love Datasette and what it stands for. I was thinking about how we could make it accessible to more people, especially those without access to credit cards required for a lot of hosting options. Or they might not feel comfortable signing up for said services. So I was thinking I might create a service that hosts Datasette instances for folks. I'd probably stick it on AWS Lambda and limit requests to something like n/month to avoid bankrupting myself. If I did build such a hypothetical service, I was thinking I would rely on GitHub Actions to do the heavy lifting. E.g. user `johndoe` creates a repo `my-animals` with a couple of files: `dogs.csv`, `cats.csv` and the following GitHub Actions workflow: ```yaml # .github/workflows/push.yml on: push # this allows the publish action to use OIDC to authenticate johndoe/my-animals permissions: id-token: write contents: read jobs: publish: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/setup-python@v2 - run: pip install sqlite-utils - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - run: | set -eux sqlite-utils create-database animals.db sqlite-utils insert animals.db dogs dogs.csv --csv sqlite-utils insert animals.db cats cats.csv --csv - uses: datasette-hub/publish@v1 with: db: animals.db metadata: meta.yml # this step is helpful for debugging why the # generated sqlite db was rejected - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 if: failure() with: path: animals.db retention-days: 1 ``` This would then cause a Datasette instance to be available at `https://johndoe-my-animals.datasette-hub.test/`. It feels like this could significantly reduce the friction to someone being able to go from data set to Datasette. What do you think? Does this address a real need? Or am I perhaps misunderstanding the main friction points? As a bonus: it feels like this would pair well with [git scraping](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/). | 107914493 | issue | {"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1615/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0} | completed |