README.md

UK Government digital services

A community-maintained list of digital services from the UK government.

Data sources

• Service Standard Reports
• Services on GOV.UK
• UK government accounts on GitHub

Previous data sources

• Government Service Register (no longer maintained)
• Performance Platform (no longer maintained)
• DWP Digital Service Portfolio
• HMPPS Digital Studio
• Land Registry Digital Services

How to run this project

You’ll need

1. Node 20
2. NPM

Using a command line run

npm install
npm start

How to add or update screenshots

Screenshots for service landing or home pages can be added automatically by running a script.

First, you need to have the latest version of Google Chrome installed.

To tell the script where the Google Chrome executable is located on your computer, create a file named .env (in the same folder as this README.md file) and add this named environment variable:

GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH=""

For example, on a Mac, this may be something like this:

GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH="/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"

Once this is set up, you can run the script to add the screenshots using this command:

npm run screenshots register-to-vote

Substitute register-to-vote with the name of the file for the service you want to screenshot.

You can also update all the screenshots (which will take a while) by running this command:

npm run screenshots all

Screenshots will be saved in the app/assets/images/service-screenshots folder, using the same name as the json file within app/services. Images are all 2160×2160 pixels (1080x1080 at 2× resolution), and will be rendered with no cookies set (so will include any cookie banner).