datasette-ports 0.1

Title: Release: datasette-ports 0.1

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6th April 2026

[Release](https://simonwillison.net/elsewhere/release/)[datasette-ports 0.1](https://github.com/datasette/datasette-ports/releases/tag/0.1)— Find all currently running Datasette instances and list their ports

Another [example](https://gisthost.github.io/?f92d8a6bdadee1c77972b5e51954144e) of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me.

I often find myself running a bunch of different [Datasette](https://datasette.io/) instances with different databases and different in-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows - enough that I frequently lose them!

Now I can run this:

```
datasette install datasette-ports
datasette ports
```

And get a list of every running instance that looks something like this:

```
http://127.0.0.1:8333/ - v1.0a26
Databases: data
Plugins: datasette-enrichments, datasette-enrichments-llm, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8001/ - v1.0a26
Databases: creatures
Plugins: datasette-extract, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8900/ - v0.65.2
Databases: logs
```

Posted [6th April 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/6/) at 12:23 am

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