https://github.com/ashanan/datasette-knightlab-timeline

Datasette plugin for creating timelines with TimelineJS
https://github.com/ashanan/datasette-knightlab-timeline

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Datasette plugin for creating timelines with TimelineJS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ashanan/datasette-knightlab-timeline
• Owner: ashanan
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2022-06-12T22:18:54.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-04T23:34:13.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-30T23:43:30.137Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: datasette-plugin, timelinejs
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 45.9 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# datasette-knightlab-timeline

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A Datasette plugin to create timelines using the TimelineJS library.

## Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

    datasette install datasette-knightlab-timeline

## Usage

Add a `datasette-knightlab-timeline` object to the metadata plugins section.

```json

{

    "title": "This is the top-level title in metadata.json",

    "plugins": {

		"datasette-knightlab-timeline": {

			"databases": [{

				"database": "database_one",

				"query": "SELECT date_measured as start_date, text FROM measurement_event WHERE date_measured > (SELECT DATETIME('now', '-30 day'))"

			}, {

				"database": "inaturalist",

				"query": "SELECT created_at as start_date, 'Nature observation!  Observed ' || species_guess || '.' AS text FROM observations WHERE created_at > (SELECT DATETIME('now', '-30 day'))"

			}]

		}

    }

}

```

## Development

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

    cd datasette-knightlab-timeline

    python3 -m venv venv

    source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

    pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

    pytest