datasette-proxy-url by datasette
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datasette-proxy-url
Proxy a URL through a Datasette instance
Installation
Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.
datasette install datasette-proxy-url
Usage
This plugin can be configured to set specific paths within Datasette to proxy content from another URL.
Configure the plugin like this:
{
"plugins": {
"datasette-proxy-url": {
"paths": [
{"path": "/proxy", "backend": "http://example.com/"},
]
}
}
}
Now any request to /proxy
will serve the HTML content from http://example.com/
.
The content-type
response header and the content body will be passed through. All other headers are currently ignored.
Development
To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
cd datasette-proxy-url
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:
pip install -e '.[test]'
To run the tests:
pytest