Datasette SQL functions for very simple HTML operations

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-simple-html

This plugin provides the following SQL functions:

Returns the text with any <...> tags removed.

Escapes any HTML special characters in the text, e.g. > becomes >. Uses html.escape(text, quote=True) from the Python standard library.

Unescapes any HTML special characters, so > becomes >. Also handles numeric entities, so ' becomes '. Uses html.unescape(text) from the Python standard library.

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd datasette-simple-html
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest