primary_type
Optional
Primary crime category, such as THEFT or ARSON.
Chicago Open Data Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Chicago Open Data Scraper pulls crimes, business licenses, and building permits straight from the City of Chicago SODA API. Pick a mode or any Socrata dataset id, add optional SoQL filters, and export clean rows to JSON, CSV, or Excel. No login needed. Handles paging, retries, and dedupe for you.
id
Optional
Record id.
case_number
Optional
Crime case number on crime rows.
date
Optional
Crime date.
block
Optional
Address block.
iucr
Optional
Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting code.
primary_type
Optional
Primary crime category, such as THEFT or ARSON.
incidentDescription
Optional
Offense text.
location_description
Optional
Where the incident occurred, such as a street or vehicle.
arrest
Optional
Whether an arrest was reported.
domestic
Optional
Whether the incident was flagged domestic.
beat
Optional
Police beat.
district
Optional
Police district.
ward
Optional
Chicago ward.
community_area
Optional
Community area code.
fbi_code
Optional
FBI crime code.
x_coordinate
Optional
State plane X coordinate.
y_coordinate
Optional
State plane Y coordinate.
year
Optional
Year.
updated_on
Optional
Last update timestamp.
latitude
Optional
Latitude.
longitude
Optional
Longitude.
location
Optional
Location object, usually a point.
license_id
Optional
Business license id on license rows.
account_number
Optional
License account number when present.
site_number
Optional
License site number when present.
legal_name
Optional
Legal business name when present.
doing_business_as_name
Optional
Doing-business-as name when present.
address
Optional
Street address when present.
city
Optional
City when present.
state
Optional
State when present.
zip_code
Optional
ZIP code when present.
precinct
Optional
Precinct when present.
ward_precinct
Optional
Ward and precinct pair when present.
police_district
Optional
Police district on license rows when present.
community_area_name
Optional
Community area name when present.
neighborhood
Optional
Neighborhood name when present.
license_code
Optional
License code when present.
permit_
Optional
Permit number on permit rows.
permit_type
Optional
Permit type.
review_type
Optional
Review type.
application_start_date
Optional
Permit application start date when present.
issue_date
Optional
Permit issue date when present.
processing_time
Optional
Processing time when present.
street_number
Optional
Street number on permit rows when present.
street_direction
Optional
Street direction on permit rows when present.
street_name
Optional
Street name on permit rows when present.
work_description
Optional
Work description on permit rows when present.
building_fee_paid
Optional
Building fee paid.
zoning_fee_paid
Optional
Zoning fee paid.
other_fee_paid
Optional
Other fee paid.
subtotal_paid
Optional
Subtotal paid.
building_fee_unpaid
Optional
Building fee unpaid.
zoning_fee_unpaid
Optional
Zoning fee unpaid.
other_fee_unpaid
Optional
Other fee unpaid.
mode
Optional
Run mode: crimes, licenses, permits, or dataset.
source_url
Optional
Reference URL for the record.
scraped_at
Optional
UTC timestamp when the row was saved.
error
Optional
Error message on a failed row.
input
Optional
Identifier that failed.
status
Optional
Status code on a failure, or 0 when none.