Pardonned.com
A searchable database of US Pardons
Details
- External ID
- 47727960
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- April 11, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 501
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9922879177377892
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
https://pardonned.comInspired 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 dbAll code is open source and available on Github.
Enrichment
- Theme
- searchable public records and archives
- Vertical
- Government
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- searchable database of us pardons
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly describes using Playwright to scrape a government website into SQLite and generating an Astro static site, which is entirely reproducible with an AI assistant.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: search by district
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