What is palworlddashboard?

Palworld Server Dashboard is a self-hosted web page that shows live information about a Palworld dedicated game server. It reads data straight from the Palworld server itself, so there are no third-party services or outside APIs involved. The dashboard shows who is currently online, the exact in-game day and time, server performance history, guilds, player bases, a leaderboard for how many creature species each player has discovered, and a trophy case highlighting rare or high-level Pals. The page itself is a single static HTML file that reads one JSON file for its data. A small background program, called the collector, runs once a minute on the server computer, gathers information through the game's REST API, and also reads the game's save files directly, since the API alone does not expose everything, such as guild details or the exact in-game clock. A separate script parses the save files roughly every 15 minutes for the deeper information. You can then host the resulting web files on the game machine itself or push them to any other web host. There is also a separate searchable page listing every Pal owned across the server, filterable by tamer and sortable by level or stats. An optional feature can alert you with a sound or notification when someone connects to the server. Another optional feature runs a weekly single-elimination popularity tournament between nicknamed Pals, with anonymous voting so people vote for the Pal rather than the owner. Setting it up requires a Windows machine running the Palworld dedicated server, since the collector needs direct access to the save files, plus an admin PowerShell session to run the installer. The installer downloads its own self-contained copy of Python so it does not touch anything else on your system. You also need to turn on the game's REST API in its settings file and set an admin password, which the collector reads automatically. The README stresses keeping that API restricted to localhost or your local network rather than exposing it to the internet, and it also notes that Steam IDs, player IP addresses, and map coordinates are never written to the public data file, so the dashboard is safe to share publicly.