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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-713191819,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,713191819,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMzE5MTgxOQ==,9599,2020-10-20T23:12:58Z,2020-10-20T23:12:58Z,OWNER,"Enzo has a great solution here: https://twitter.com/enzo_mdd/status/1318685442976436226
> Or maybe an option for a url. This keeps the CSV small but allows scripts to download binary data as needed.
In #1036 I'm planning on adding a way for users to access BLOB data. I can include that URL in the CSV output.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-713176082,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,713176082,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMzE3NjA4Mg==,9599,2020-10-20T22:27:33Z,2020-10-20T22:27:33Z,OWNER,"This feels good to me - it's consistent with how other features in Datasette work, and it means users who need the binary data in CSV (for whatever reason) can get it if they want to.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-713175741,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,713175741,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMzE3NTc0MQ==,9599,2020-10-20T22:26:45Z,2020-10-20T22:26:45Z,OWNER,"> New idea: since binary in CSV doesn't make sense anyway, emulate Datasette's HTML UI default and output this:
>
> id,title,data
> 1,Some title,
> 2,Other title,
>
> Then allow users to add ?_base64=1 to the URL to get base64 instead
> https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1318679950635888641","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-713174690,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,713174690,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMzE3NDY5MA==,9599,2020-10-20T22:23:50Z,2020-10-20T22:23:50Z,OWNER,Or... default to `` and support a `?_base64=1` option which outputs in base64 instead.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-713174341,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,713174341,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMzE3NDM0MQ==,9599,2020-10-20T22:22:53Z,2020-10-20T22:23:14Z,OWNER,"An even easier option: do what the Datasette UI does and output `` for that CSV cell, as seen on https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures/binary_data","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-713172901,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,713172901,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMzE3MjkwMQ==,9599,2020-10-20T22:19:10Z,2020-10-20T22:20:28Z,OWNER,"I could go with the same format as `datasette-render-binary` but using `0x00` as the format for the hex bytes.
0x15 0x1C 0x02 0xC7 JFIF 0x00 0x01
Problem with this is that it's ambiguous: if the ASCII characters `0x15` occur in the text they will be indistinguishable from those hex bytes.
But since representing binary data in CSV fundamentally doesn't make sense I'm not sure if that really matters.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-712582699,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,712582699,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjU4MjY5OQ==,9599,2020-10-20T04:36:04Z,2020-10-20T04:36:14Z,OWNER,Asked for ideas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1318409558805467136,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-712581994,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,712581994,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjU4MTk5NA==,9599,2020-10-20T04:33:28Z,2020-10-20T04:33:28Z,OWNER,"The [datasette-render-binary](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-binary) plugin does this, which I really like - but without the different coloured fonts I'm not sure how readable it would be as just plain text:
Really the goal here is to find the most human-friendly option, so that people looking at the output have a vague idea what's going on. That's why I'm not leaping at the chance to use base64.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1034#issuecomment-712580976,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1034,712580976,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjU4MDk3Ng==,9599,2020-10-20T04:29:23Z,2020-10-20T04:29:23Z,OWNER,Most obvious option is base64. Any other potential solutions I'm missing?,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",725184645,