About the data
Survivor Castaways is built from open survivor stats: 751 castaways, 50 US seasons, and 7,887 who-played-with-whom connections, all derived at build time from community-maintained data. Everything on this page, sources, licenses, photo credits, and raw downloads, exists so you can check our work or build your own.
Sources
The core dataset is the survivoR
project, an open-source, MIT-licensed collection of castaway, season, tribe, and
vote-history data for every season of Survivor. We vendor a pinned snapshot
(upstream commit 58cabf95f369), filter it to the US
seasons, validate it, and derive the stats you see on every page: placements, days lasted,
returnee flags, connection counts, and the baked graph layout. Manual corrections are
applied through a reviewed overrides file, never by editing the source data.
Cast photos are self-hosted copies credited to their original publishers (see the table below), resized and served locally so no third-party site carries our traffic. Survivor itself is a CBS production; this is an unofficial fan project with no CBS affiliation.
Attribution
| Source | What we use | License / credit |
|---|---|---|
| survivoR project | Castaways, seasons, tribes, placements, vote history | MIT license |
| Survivor Wiki / CBS | 724 castaway photos (self-hosted) | Used with credit and thanks |
| True Dork Times | 27 castaway photos (self-hosted) | Used with credit and thanks |
| CBS | Survivor (the show), names, seasons, format | Trademark of CBS; unofficial fan project |
Download the data
The derived dataset is free to use, if you publish something built on it, credit the survivoR project (and link back here if you're feeling generous).
Frequently asked questions
Where does the Survivor data on this site come from?
Primarily from the open-source survivoR project, a community-maintained dataset of every US Survivor season, castaway, tribe, and vote, released under the MIT license. We derive placements, connections, and graph layouts from a pinned snapshot of that data.
Can I download the survivor stats used on this site?
Yes, connections.csv (every one of the 7,887 castaway pairs who shared a season) and players.json (all 751 players with placements and stats) are free to download on this page.
How often is the data updated?
After each season finishes airing (and when upstream corrections land), the dataset is re-synced, re-validated, and the whole site is rebuilt. During an airing season a spoiler-free cast list is published from pre-season data.
Who took the castaway photos?
Cast photos are self-hosted with credit to their sources, Survivor Wiki / CBS (724 photos), True Dork Times (27 photos). Missing photos render as a neutral silhouette.