Turn .mp3 URLs into an audio player in the Datasette interface
Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.
datasette install datasette-mp3-audio
Try this plugin at https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/announcements
The demo uses ScotRail train announcements from matteason/scotrail-announcements-june-2022.
Once installed, any cells with a value that ends in .mp3 and starts with either http:// or / or https:// will be turned into an embedded HTML audio element like this:
<audio controls src="... value ..."><a href="...">Download MP3</a></audio>A "Play X MP3s on this page" button will be added to athe top of any table page listing more than one MP3.
To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
cd datasette-mp3-audio
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:
pip install -e '.[test]'
To run the tests:
pytest