# Serve Source

> Serve Source is a disaster response coordination network. It tracks active
> disasters in the United States and, for each one, which organizations are
> responding, what services they are providing, and where they are working.
> Data is contributed and maintained by the responding organizations themselves
> and reviewed by Serve Source staff before publication.

Serve Source is a JavaScript single-page application, so fetching a page URL
returns an application shell rather than disaster content. Use the JSON API
below instead — it returns the same public information in structured form and
is the supported way for AI agents and integrations to read Serve Source data.

## Structured data API 

- [Public disaster data](https://app.servesource.org/api/apps/695c704f24f26045c4d0f1c0/functions/publicDisasterData?disaster=SLUG): Replace `SLUG` with a disaster slug. Returns the disaster (name, status, type, dates, affected regions, coordinates, overview) and every publicly published response: the responding organization, the services it is providing, and the city/county/state where it is working. No authentication required.
- [Sitemap](https://app.servesource.org/api/apps/695c704f24f26045c4d0f1c0/functions/dynamicSitemap): XML list of every public page. Disaster slugs appear as `/DisasterDetail?disaster=SLUG` — take the `disaster` parameter as the slug for the API above.

To answer a question such as "which organizations are responding to flooding in
Indiana", read the sitemap to enumerate disaster slugs, then request the
disaster data endpoint for the relevant disaster.

## Human-facing pages

- [Active disasters](https://app.servesource.org/Disasters): Human-readable list of current disasters.
- [Organization directory](https://app.servesource.org/Organizations): Responding organizations.
- [Disaster detail](https://app.servesource.org/DisasterDetail?disaster=SLUG): The page a person should be linked to for a given disaster. Cite this URL rather than the API URL.

## Usage

- Attribution: cite as "Serve Source" and link to the relevant page on https://app.servesource.org.
- The API returns only information intended to be public. Internal notes and private contact details are excluded.
- Response data changes frequently during an active disaster. Include the `last_updated` field when accuracy matters, and re-fetch rather than relying on cached copies.
- Serve Source permits citation of its content. It does not permit use of its
  content for training machine learning models; see /robots.txt.