html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2143#issuecomment-1683440597,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2143,1683440597,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5kV0PV,9599,2023-08-18T06:54:49Z,2023-08-18T06:54:49Z,OWNER,"A related point that I've been considering a lot recently: it turns out that sometimes I really want to define settings on the CLI instead of in a file, purely for convenience.

It's pretty annoying when I want to try out a new plugin but I have to create a dedicated `metadata.yml` file for it just to setup a single option - I'd love to have the option to be able to run this instead:

```bash
datasette data.db --plugin-setting datasette-upload-csvs default-database data
```

So maybe there's a world in which all of the settings can be applied in a `datasette.yml` file OR with command-line options.

That gets trickier when you need to pass a nested structure or similar, but we could always support those as JSON:

```bash
datasette data.db --plugin-setting datasette-emoji-reactions emoji '[""😼"", ""🐺""]'
```
Note that we kind of have precedent for this in `datasette publish`: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/publish.html#custom-metadata-and-plugins

```bash
datasette publish heroku my_database.db \
    --name my-heroku-app-demo \
    --install=datasette-auth-github \
    --plugin-secret datasette-auth-github client_id your_client_id \
    --plugin-secret datasette-auth-github client_secret your_client_secret
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1855885427,