https://www.meetgor.com Posts tagged with libsql en-us Sat, 09 May 2026 05:38:52 UTC https://www.meetgor.com/til/libsql-query-remote-db Querying a libsql database hosted on turso with cURL. Using a remote sqlite-like db with turso api to query data. Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 UTC If you are using a local [libsql](https://turso.tech/libsql) database, it is quite easy to query the database, but for a remote or a database on a hosted cloud platform like [turso](https://turso.tech/), we can use other clients or the api itself to query the data. We can use the turso cli to get the authentication token for the database and then query the database. ## Turso CLI Using the [turso-cli](https://docs.turso.tech/reference/turso-cli) to access the turso platform. We will use turso cli to create a libsql database, create authentication tokens, and query the db. ### Create a database (it's optional, you might already have a database) ```bash turso db create ``` You will get a database on the turso cloud platform with some random interesting name like a passphrase. Use the command `turso db list` and copy the URL ```graphql DB_URL=dbname-orgname.turso.io ``` ### Create an authentication token for a particular database ```bash turso db tokens create db_name ``` Copy the JWT token and this will be used as a authentication token when accessing the remote database in the turso cloud. ```bash TOKEN=abcdef.12345.wxyz DB_URL=dbname-orgname.turso.io ``` * Querying the database using curl or other [api clients](https://docs.turso.tech/libsql/client-access) ```bash curl -s -H "Authorization: bearer $TOKEN" \ -d '{"statements": ["SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type=\"table\";"]}' \ $DB_URL ``` We can use `curl` or any api client tools to send queries to the database hosted on the turso platform. We need to provide the JWT token in the `Authorization` header to connect to that particular database. The request's body is a JSON string with a list of statements to query the database. ```graphql [ { "results": { "columns": ["name"], "rows":[ ["libsql_wasm_func_table"], ["_litestream_seq"], ["_litestream_lock"], ["sqlite_sequence"], ["user"] ] } } ] ``` The result is a list of key-value pairs as `columns` and `rows` for each of the statements in the body. The columns are a list of column names requested in the query, and the rows are a list of rows where each row is a list of field values from the query. til