simonw/datasette

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An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

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Indexed issues: 549
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Merged PRs (30d): 18

Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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549 open issues indexed

Release announcement and final changelog for 1.0 Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2947 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Support for SQLite non-string parameters Open

research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

simonw/datasette#2946 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Review and robustify base_url implementation for 1.0 Open

research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/datasette#2945 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Review performance of large and wide (many column) tables Open

performance research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/datasette#2944 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Accessibility audit for 1.0 Open

accessibility

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

simonw/datasette#2943 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Review how database connections work prior to 1.0 Open

internals research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/datasette#2942 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Drop Python 3.10 and explore setlimit() options in Python 3.11 Open

research

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2941 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
AGENTS.md with instructions for scanning for common security problems Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

simonw/datasette#2940 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Review `uvx datasette` onboarding flow for Datasette 1.0 Open

design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2939 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
New Datasette Lite against 1.0 based on service workers Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2938 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Tracking issue for things to review for Datasette 1.0 Open

tracking-issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/datasette#2937 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Review and finalize register_output_renderer hook for 1.0 Open

csv plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/datasette#2936 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Finalize implementation of metadata for 1.0 Open

metadata

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2935 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Completed upgrade documentation and upgrade tool for 1.0 Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2934 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Get datasette publish and datasette package ready for 1.0 Open

datasette-publish tracking-issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/datasette#2933 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Design refresh of tables Open

design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2932 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Design refresh of row page Open

design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/datasette#2931 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Design refresh of menus Open

design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2930 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
write_wrapper cannot cancel an alter table statement Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

simonw/datasette#2924 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Move to the datasette org Open

ops

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2900 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Review uvloop optimizations for Datasette Open

performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2896 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
OpenStreetMaps blocked tiles. Referer header missing on request Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

simonw/datasette#2883 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Datasette docker image not available for 0.65.3 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2881 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Proposal: add OpenTelementry to Datasette Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

simonw/datasette#2867 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Cloudflare blocking Claude Code Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2855 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Fire an event when a database is added or removed Open

events

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2850 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Ensure all plugins are compatible with Datasette 1.0a37 and above Open

plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2848 · 12 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Update transactions code for sqlite-utils 4.0 Open

bug internals

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2831 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Review usage of _block_framing() for clickjacking prevention Open

security

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2825 · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Ensure all created primary keys are not null Open

data-entry-ui json-api

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

simonw/datasette#2807 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Rows with a primary key of `null` or empty string cannot be edited/deleted/viewed Open

bug data-entry-ui

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

simonw/datasette#2805 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Use placeholder= to show the default value in insert/update box Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

simonw/datasette#2802 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
In foreign key complete always show single most recently used (remembered by localStorage) at top Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

simonw/datasette#2801 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Introduce concept of "owned resources" for permissions (for discussion) Open

authentication-and-permissions design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/datasette#2793 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2026
Should execute-sql work without view-database? Open

authentication-and-permissions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

simonw/datasette#2772 · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Redesign register_output_renderer hook so we can deprecate data= Open

breaking-change plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2770 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Improve accessibility of homepage/database/table/row actions menus Open

accessibility

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/datasette#2738 · 2 comments · Opened May 24, 2026
Filtering views on computed SUM columns returns 0 rows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

simonw/datasette#2713 · Opened May 15, 2026
feature request: Add support for server-sent events (SSE) for live query result streaming Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2676 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 21, 2026
Database download doesn't show progress bar in browsers Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

simonw/datasette#2663 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Ease transition from 0.x to 1.0 through backwards compatible shims Open

enhancement internals

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2638 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 15, 2026
Website and GitHub need a better ultra-quickstart Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2625 · Opened Jan 10, 2026
In --default-deny mode show icons for public, not private tables Open

authentication-and-permissions design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2620 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2025
Improvements to /db/table/pk.json row page Open

json-api

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/datasette#2612 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 13, 2025
Refactor default_permissions.py into a package Open

refactor

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

simonw/datasette#2602 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 27, 2025
IndexError when table view has binary column on right side of join Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

simonw/datasette#2601 · Opened Nov 27, 2025
Alpha version installs the wrong plugin versions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2597 · Opened Nov 14, 2025
Prototype of side panel for row details Open

design research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/datasette#2589 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2025
Upgrade more plugins to Datasette 1.0a20+, including plugins previously pinned to 1.0a19 Open

plugins tracking-issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

simonw/datasette#2577 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2025
Update writing plugins docs to cover pyproject.toml not setup.py Open

documentation plugins

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 58/100

simonw/datasette#2554 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 30, 2025

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