📦 Open Source

Pardonned.com Scrapes US Presidential Pardons Into Something Usable

I punched 'Trump' into Pardonned.com, and there they were — hundreds of pardons, searchable by name, date, crime. Finally, someone made the president's mercy list actually usable.

Screenshot of Pardonned.com search results for Trump pardons

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Pardonned.com makes DOJ's clunky pardon lists searchable via open-source scraping. 𝕏
  • Built with Playwright, SQLite, Astro — simple stack, no bloat. 𝕏
  • Fills transparency gap amid rising pardon scrutiny from Biden/Trump eras. 𝕏
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