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Simon Willison created a GitHub repository that uses AI-generated scripts and GitHub Actions to build a 66MB SQLite database from Mozilla's browser compatibility data, hosted with open CORS headers for direct access via Datasette Lite.

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This new GitHub Repo includes a Claude Code for web (Opus 4.8) generated script for doing that using sqlite-utils.

I wanted the resulting ~66MB SQLite database to be available via the GitHub CDN with open CORS headers. GitHub releases don't have those, but any file stored in a regular GitHub repository does - so I had Codex Desktop (GPT-5.5) build a GitHub Actions workflow that builds the database and then force-pushes it to a db

"orphan" branch.

You can download the resulting database from here, and since it's hosted with open CORS headers you can also explore it with Datasette Lite.

Tags: github, mozilla, projects, github-actions, datasette-lite, ai-assisted-programming, model-context-protocol, mdn

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