wtf is palworld-livemap?

Palworld Live Map Portable is a tool for showing a live map of players on a Palworld game server. It reads data from the server through the game's built in REST API and displays player names, positions, and movement trails on a web page in real time. The project is made by a developer known as 4zr and is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of Palworld. The tool comes bundled with its own portable Python runtime, so you do not need to install Python separately. You download the whole thing as a ZIP file from GitHub, unzip it into a folder, and run the included start.bat file, which opens an admin page in your browser at a local address. Before this works, the Palworld server itself needs its REST API turned on and an admin password set in its own settings file, and you enter that same password into the map's admin page to connect. Once running, you can share the live map with other players in one of two ways. The simple method shares your public IP address directly, which requires forwarding a port on your router and opening it in your firewall, and exposes your server's IP to anyone who visits. The safer method uses a Cloudflare Tunnel or a reverse proxy, which lets you share a normal looking web address without opening any ports or revealing your server's real IP. Either way, the admin page itself always stays restricted to the local machine and is blocked if accessed through a tunnel or proxy, while the public facing map page supports switching between several languages. Because anyone with the public link can see player names, positions, movement history, and when players join or leave, this is worth keeping in mind before sharing it widely. The project's own code is released under a CC0 public domain dedication, though this does not cover Palworld's own names, images, or the bundled Python runtime, which remain under their original licenses.