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You can try it out here: https://simonw.github.io/datasette-lite/

Or if you have a SQLite database hosted online somewhere with open CORS headers you can feed it the URL using ?url=... - like this:

https://simonw.github.io/datasette-lite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc...

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Hi, I work in an academic setting and I found datasette always interesting to publish datasets, but it is hard to host a python web application on institutional servers (would have to convince several people who would have to maintain this). Hosting static files is very easy - time to try datassete!

Awesome! I'm really keen to see Datasette used more in academia, I hadn't thought about how much easier it would be to deploy static files in that context.

Hi Simon, thank you for the great work. Do you have any plan to support DuckDB in future?

I am seriously considering adding a plugin hook to support alternative database backends - PostgreSQL and DuckDB are the two I'm most interested in for that.

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