# thevahidal/soul

🕉 Soul | Automatic SQLite RESTful  and realtime API server | Build CRUD APIs in minutes!

Repository: https://github.com/thevahidal/soul
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thevahidal-soul
Homepage: https://thevahidal.github.io/soul/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: nodejs, realtime, rest, sqlite, sqlite3
Last push: 2026-08-10T05:21:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1428, "days_push": 23, "days_rel": 24, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1684, forks 58 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:21.832720+00:00)

## What it is
Soul is a Node.js CLI tool that instantly turns any SQLite database into a RESTful API server with a realtime WebSocket endpoint. It supports authentication, rate limiting, CORS, and an optional admin studio out of the box.

## Use cases
- expose a sqlite database as a rest api
- build crud apis in minutes
- add realtime updates to a sqlite database
- quickly prototype a backend without writing code
- self-host a lightweight api server for sqlite
- add authentication to a sqlite rest api

## When to choose
- you need a REST/realtime API over SQLite with zero boilerplate
- you want quick prototyping or a small self-hosted backend
- you want built-in auth, rate limiting, and CORS for a SQLite API

## When to avoid
- you use PostgreSQL, MySQL, or another database instead of SQLite
- you need complex custom business logic in your API layer
- you need high-concurrency write throughput beyond SQLite's capabilities

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: http-server, websocket, api-framework, database, auth, rate-limiting, cli
- domain: databases, backend, web-development, apis, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: sqlite, rest-api, realtime, crud, auto-generated-api, better-sqlite3, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- thevahidal/soul (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:21.832720+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:41:17.564733+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thevahidal/soul (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:21.832720+00:00, sha e098b1d149d6)
  - homepage: https://thevahidal.github.io/soul/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:14:22.059533+00:00, sha 84605ab49f54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.