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Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

by vidluther·Apr 11, 2026·501 points·276 comments
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AI Analysis

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Every pardon links to original DOJ warrant PDFs for verification.

Strengths
  • •Links every pardon to original DOJ warrant PDFs—verifiable sourcing
  • •Aggregates statistics not easily found elsewhere like prison time and restitution totals
  • •Clean, searchable interface for 2,791 records across administrations
Weaknesses
  • •Standard scraper plus static site stack offers no technical innovation
  • •Data updates depend on manual scraping runs rather than automated pipelines
Category
Data
Target Audience

Journalists, researchers, and politically engaged citizens

Similar To

GovTrack · ProPublica databases

Post Description

https://pardonned.com

Inspired by the videos of Liz Oyer, I wanted to be able to verify her claims and just look up all the pardons more easily.

Tech Stack: Playwright - to sccrape the DOJ website SQLite - local database Astro 6 - Build out a static website from the sqlite db

All code is open source and available on Github.

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