What Cities Just Put Online Screensaver
The What Cities Just Put Online screensaver shows datasets appearing across every Socrata portal at once, key-less from the discovery API. Socrata runs the data portals for a large number of American cities, states and agencies, and this one endpoint searches all of them together — permit logs, response times, salaries, and routinely the freedom-of-information requests themselves. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the What Cities Just Put Online screensaver works
The saver reads the source described above and draws it on a canvas — no account, no tracking.
Datasets appearing across every Socrata portal at once, key-less from the discovery API. Socrata runs the data portals for a large number of American cities, states and agencies, and this one endpoint searches all of them together — permit logs, response times, salaries, and routinely the freedom-of-information requests themselves.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
A worked example
Datasets appearing across every Socrata portal at once, key-less from the discovery API. Socrata runs the data portals for a large number of American cities, states and agencies, and this one endpoint searches all of them together — permit logs, response times, salaries, and routinely the freedom-of-information requests themselves.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display.
- Every value on screen comes from the live source — nothing is simulated.
- Press ESC to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes, and it runs entirely in your browser.