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The formalized API enables building fresh databases in an environment such as GitHub Actions and swapping them into production as soon as the build has completed.

Highlights the practical use case: building databases in GitHub Actions and swapping them to production immediately after the build finishes. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-11 · original ↗

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This means you can build fresh databases in an environment such as GitHub Actions and swap them in production as soon as that build has completed.

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✳ Datasette ✳ datasette-upload-dbs ✳ GitHub Actions

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The datasette-upload-dbs plugin lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database starts being served by that instance.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 75%

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The new release adds a formalized API that lets you replace an existing database or add a new one via a curl POST request to the /-/upload-dbs endpoint.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 80%