SAS Studio Helper
SAS Studio Helper icon

Your SAS Studio session,
on your desktop.

A Chrome extension that bridges your logged-in SAS Studio web session and the StatDataViewer desktop app. Submit programs, open datasets, browse files — same session, same auth.

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No remote servers No tracking Loopback only Per-host consent Free

What it bridges

Programs

Live

Submit SAS code from the desktop and watch the log and status stream back in real time. Fetch results and log HTML, or cancel a running submission mid-flight.

Datasets

Live

Double-click a dataset in SAS Studio and it opens in StatDataViewer — columns and first rows pushed automatically. Paginate further, or download the full .sas7bdat.

Files

Full CRUD

Browse folders, read and save .sas and text files, upload binaries, rename, delete, create directories — the whole SAS Studio file tree, driven from the desktop.

Libraries

Full CRUD

List libraries and their datasets, or mount a filesystem path as a new SAS library without touching the web UI.

Diagnostics

For adapting

A ring buffer of recent SAS Studio API calls, exportable as JSON from the options page. Handy when adapting the bridge to a new SAS Studio version.

How it works

Same Session, Same Auth

  • Rides the SAS Studio session you're already logged into
  • Harvests the session id and CSRF token the page itself uses
  • Calls the same HTTP API the SAS Studio front-end calls
  • No second login, no stored passwords

Consent Per Host

  • You add each SAS Studio host in the options page
  • Chrome asks you to grant access to that host — and only that host
  • No broad site access at install time
  • Remove a host and the grant goes with it

Loopback Only

  • Talks to StatDataViewer over 127.0.0.1 on your own computer
  • WebSocket for events, HTTP for binary transfer
  • Nothing is sent to any remote server
  • No analytics, no tracking, no third-party services

Quietly Present

  • A small status badge on the SAS Studio page shows the bridge state
  • Toasts surface errors right where you're working
  • Heartbeat keeps the bridge alive while the viewer is connected
  • Automatic reconnect with backoff when the viewer restarts

What you need

A SAS Studio deployment

Any SAS Studio you can log into in your browser. SAS Studio 4.x, 5.x, and SAS OnDemand for Academics are supported.

StatDataViewer

The desktop app this extension bridges to, running on the same computer. Without it, the extension does nothing useful. Get it at statdataviewer.com.

Privacy, by construction

The extension only ever talks to your SAS Studio host and to 127.0.0.1. No data collection, no telemetry. Read the privacy policy.