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@simonw I made this primitive search that I've put in my Datasette project's custom templates directory: https://gist.github.com/chrismp/e064b41f08208a6f9a93150a23cf7e03

I'll take your suggestion and do this all in Javascript. Would I need to make a static/ folder in my datasette project's root directory and make a custom index.html template that pulls from static/js/search-all-fts.js? Or would you suggest another way?

In my case, I have an ever-growing number of databases and tables within them. Most tables have FTS enabled. I cannot predict the names of future tables and databases, nor can I predict the names of the columns for which I wish to enable FTS.

For my purposes, I was thinking of writing up something that sends these two GET requests to each of my databases' tables.

http://my-server.com/database-name/table-name.json?_search=mySearchString http://my-server.com/database-name/table-name.json

In the resulting JSON strings, I'd check the value of the key filtered_table_rows_count. If the value is 0 in the first URL's result, or if values from both requests are the same, that means FTS is either disabled for the table or it has no rows matching the search query.

Is this feasible within the datasette library, or would it require some type of plugin? Or maybe you know of a better way of accomplishing this goal. Maybe I overlooked something.

Eh, I'm not concerned with a relevance score right now. I think I'd be fine with a search whose results show links to data tables with at least one result.

Very cool, thank you.

Using http://search-24ways.herokuapp.com as an example, let's say I want to search all FTS columns in all tables in all databases for the word "web."

Here's a link to the query I'd need to run to search "web" on FTS columns in articles table of the 24ways database.

And here's a link to the JSON version of the above result. I'd like to get the JSON result of that query for each FTS table of each database in my datasette project.

Is it possible in Javascript to automate the construction of query URLs like the one I linked, but for every FTS table in my datasette project?

I'd like to start working on this. I've made a custom template for index.html that contains a form that contains a search input. But I'm not sure where to go from here. When user enters a search term, I'd like for that term to go into a function I'll make that will search all tables with full text search enabled.

Can I make additional custom Python scripts for this or must I edit datasette's files directly?

Thinking about this more, I'd probably have to make a template page to go along with this, right? I'm guessing there's no way to add an all-databases-all-tables search to datasette's "home page" except by copying the "home page" template and editing it?