datasette-gzip
Add gzip compression to Datasette
Installation
Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.
datasette install datasette-gzip
Usage
Once installed, Datasette will obey the Accept-Encoding:
header sent by browsers or other user agents and return content compressed in the most appropriate way.
This plugin is a thin wrapper for the asgi-gzip library, which extracts the GzipMiddleware from Starlette.
Development
To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
cd datasette-gzip
python3 -mvenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:
pip install -e '.[test]'
To run the tests:
pytest