html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1605#issuecomment-1016977725,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1605,1016977725,IC_kwDOBm6k_c48ndk9,9599,simonw,2022-01-19T23:55:08Z,2022-01-19T23:55:08Z,OWNER,"Oh that's interesting. I was thinking about this from a slightly different angle recently - pondering what a static site generator built on top of Datasette might look like.

Just a sketch at the moment, but I was imagining a YAML configuration file with a SQL query that returns a list of paths - then a tool that runs that query and uses the equivalent of `datasette --get` to create a static copy of each of those paths.

I think these two ideas can probably be merged. I'd love to know more about how you are solving this right now!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1108671952,Scripted exports,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1605#issuecomment-1018766727,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1605,1018766727,IC_kwDOBm6k_c48uSWH,9599,simonw,2022-01-21T18:41:21Z,2022-01-21T18:42:03Z,OWNER,"Yeah I think this all hinges on:
- #1101 

Also this comment about streaming full JSON arrays (not just newline-delimited) using [this trick](https://til.simonwillison.net/python/output-json-array-streaming):
- https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-1017016553

I'm about ready to figure these out, as with so much it's still a little bit blocked on the refactor stuff from:
- #1518
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1108671952,Scripted exports,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1605#issuecomment-1072907200,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1605,1072907200,IC_kwDOBm6k_c4_80PA,9599,simonw,2022-03-19T00:52:54Z,2022-03-19T00:53:45Z,OWNER,"Had a thought about the implementation of this: it could make a really neat plugin.

Something like `datasette-export` which adds a `export` command using https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#register-commands-cli - then you could run:

    datasette export my-export-dir mydatabase.db -m metadata.json --template-dir templates/

And the command would then:

- Create a `Datasette()` instance with those databases/metadata/etc
- Execute`await datasette.client.get(""/"")` to get the homepage HTML
- Parse the HTML using BeautifulSoup to find all `a[href]`, `link[href]`, `script[src]`, `img[src]` elements that reference a relative path as opposed to one that starts with `http://`
- Write out the homepage to `my-export-dir/index.html`
- Recursively fetch and dump all of the other pages and assets that it found too

All of that HTML parsing may be over-complicating things. It could alternatively accept options for which pages you want to export:

```
datasette export my-export-dir \
  mydatabase.db -m metadata.json --template-dir templates/ \
  --path / \
  --path /mydatabase ...
```

Or a really wild option: it could allow you to define the paths you want to export using a SQL query:

```
datasette export my-export-dir \
  mydatabase.db -m metadata.json --template-dir templates/ \
  --sql ""
select '/' as path, 'index.html' as filename
  union all
select '/mydatabase/articles/' || id as path, 'article-' || id || '.html' as filename
from articles
  union all
select '/mydatabase/tags/' || tag as path, 'tag-' || tag || '.html' as filename
from tags
""
```
Which would save these files:
- `index.html` as the content of `/`
- `article-1.html` (and more) as the content of `/mydatabase/articles/1`
- `tag-python.html` (and more) as the content of `/mydatabase/tags/python`","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1108671952,Scripted exports,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1605#issuecomment-1328169472,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1605,1328169472,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5PKkIA,9599,simonw,2022-11-27T04:32:14Z,2022-11-27T04:32:14Z,OWNER,@eyeseast I started work on that plugin: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-export,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1108671952,Scripted exports,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1605#issuecomment-1331694246,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1605,1331694246,IC_kwDOBm6k_c5PYAqm,9599,simonw,2022-11-30T06:18:41Z,2022-11-30T06:18:41Z,OWNER,"Those sounds to me like they should be promoted to documented, supported internals.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1108671952,Scripted exports,