Datasette is a tool used for publishing data as an interactive, JSON API endpoint and web application, which makes it a great tool for data-driven journalism and data exploration. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Datasette on Ubuntu Server latest.
Datasette is built using Python 3, and we need to install pip first to install Datasette.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
With pip installed, let's proceed with installing Datasette using the command below:
sudo pip3 install datasette
After successfully installing Datasette, we can start the app by running the following command:
datasette
This will start Datasette on port 8001. If you want to specify a different port, you can run it as:
datasette serve --port=8080
Make sure to replace 8080 with the preferred port.
Now that we have Datasette running, we can open the web application in any browser by accessing the server’s IP address or domain name followed by the port number. For example, if the server’s IP address is 192.168.0.1 and Datasette is running on port 8001, we can access the application by visiting:
http://192.168.0.1:8001/
By default, Datasette is not secure, and it is recommended that you secure it by configuring authentication and SSL/TLS encryption. You can refer to the Datasette documentation for more information on this.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Datasette on Ubuntu Server latest. Happy data exploration!
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