The Hague, As Filed Screensaver
The The Hague, As Filed screensaver shows business moving through the Dutch Tweede Kamer, from the chamber's own key-less OData service. Deleted records stay in the store and must be excluded, and a bare query returns placeholder rows whose every field is null — both are filtered out here. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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How the The Hague, As Filed screensaver works
The saver reads the source described above and draws it on a canvas — no account, no tracking.
Business moving through the Dutch Tweede Kamer, from the chamber's own key-less OData service. Deleted records stay in the store and must be excluded, and a bare query returns placeholder rows whose every field is null — both are filtered out here.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours and any options can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
How the Tweede Kamer's open data is organised
The Tweede Kamer, or House of Representatives, is the lower house of the Dutch parliament and has 150 seats, filled by party-list proportional representation. Its data warehouse, the Gegevensmagazijn, is open through an OData v4 API. Queries are built as URLs, and the entities include people, parliamentary groups, committees, documents, cases, meetings, agenda items, votes and decisions. Attribute names and values are in Dutch, and so is most of the text.
A parliamentary file moves through many steps: a bill or motion is tabled, debated, amended and voted on, and a bill adopted by the House goes on to the Senate. Each step produces records, so a single case can show up through several linked entries over weeks or months. What scrolls past is a working snapshot of that process instead of a list of final laws.
The service has quirks that matter to a reader. Records with the Verwijderd (deleted) flag remain in the store as placeholders so changes can be traced, and the documentation recommends filtering them out. A bare query can also return rows where every field is empty, so both are filtered before display. An item appearing here does not mean it passed.
A worked example
Business moving through the Dutch Tweede Kamer, from the chamber's own key-less OData service. Deleted records stay in the store and must be excluded, and a bare query returns placeholder rows whose every field is null — both are filtered out here.
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.
- Does the list show laws that were passed?
- No. It shows business moving through the chamber, which includes proposals that are later rejected, amended or withdrawn.
- Why is most of the text in Dutch?
- The records are published by the chamber in Dutch, and the saver shows them as supplied rather than translating them.