EZQL™ — Ask your database questions in plain text.

Natural language to SQL convertor that can be embedded anywhere.

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✨ Why EZQL?

EZQL democratizes the access to data by allowing anybody to ask their database questions. Historically it's been embedded within Outerbase but we've got a lot of asks to make it accessible wherever so we decided to open-source it.

Learn more on our website

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⚡️ Before you get started

Follow these steps to have a successful experience using EZQL:

1. Create an account on Outerbase
2. Attach the database you want to use
3. Reach out to us for beta access
4. Generate your EZQL token

🚀 Quick Start

npm add ezql

yarn add ezql

Usage (TypeScript/ESM)

import { Prompt, EZQL } from 'ezql'

const token = 'arbitrary-placeholder-value'
const ez = new EZQL({ token })
const phrase = 'What is the answer to life, the univerise and everything?'

const response = await ez.prompt(phrase, Prompt.sql)
/* "SELECT answer FROM ultimate_question;" */

const response = await ez.prompt(phrase, Prompt.data)
/* [{ "value": 42 }] */

Usage (Node.JS/CJS)

const { Prompt, EZQL } = require('ezql')

// the remainder is identical to TypeScript usage (see above)

Usage (Web/UMD)

Use our hosted file or save a local copy.

<script src="https://outerbase.github.io/ezql/bundle.js"></script>
<script>
  // A global variable `Outerbase` is now exposed

  const token = 'arbitrary-placeholder-value'
  const ez = new Outerbase.EZQL({ token })
  const phrase = 'What is the answer to life, the univerise and everything?'

  ez.prompt(phrase, Outerbase.Prompt.sql).then((sqlText) => console.log(sqlText))
  /* "SELECT answer FROM ultimate_question;" */

  ez.prompt(phrase, Outerbase.Prompt.data).then((data) => console.log(data))
  /* [{ "value": 42 }] */
</script>

Custom API Endpoint

You may customize the API endpoint by

• passing host to the constructor
• specifying the OUTERBASE_EZQL_HOST environment variable.

🎭 Live Demonstration

• Visit https://outerbase.github.io/ezql/
• Open the Web Inspector to interact with the EZQL library

🙋 Contributing

If you want to add contributions to this repository, please follow the instructions in contributing.md.

🚨 Need help?

There are lots of good conversations and resources in our Github Discussions board & our Slack Server. If you're struggling with something, chances are, someone's already solved what you're up against. 👇

• GitHub Discussions
• GitHub Issues
• Slack

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