UK Police Street-Level Crime Data Scraper

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Quick answer: The UK Police Street-Level Crime Data Scraper exports UK Police street-level crime records — category, month, street name, coordinates, outcome status, and crime id — for up to 5 points and a bounded 6-month range, from the public data.police.uk API. Pricing is pay-per-result — $2.70 per 1 000 rows, no subscription, no card required to try it.

🎯 What this scrapes

data.police.uk is the UK government's keyless street-level crime API, but a single request downloads an entire month's raw crime file for a point before you can filter it. This Actor queries the public API for up to 5 points and a bounded month range, trims every record to a flat lead-ready row — category, month, street name, coordinates, outcome status, crime id — and stops once your result cap is reached. No API key, no login, no raw-payload cleanup.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408/429/5xx and network errors — up to 5 attempts, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, no raw nested payload, outcome_status and persistent_id normalised to null when empty.
• 🧱 404s handled correctly — a month too recent to be published yet returns zero rows for that pair, not a failed run.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for rows that land in your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Real-estate risk screening — pull crime density around a shortlist of addresses before you list or buy.
• Insurance underwriting — attach a crime-context signal to a property or postcode.
• Local journalism and research — track category-level crime trends for a neighbourhood over a bounded month range.
• Neighbourhood/relocation apps — surface recent crime categories near a point of interest.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
locations	array	no	[{"lat": 51.5074, "lng": -0.1278}]	1-5 points; each becomes one lookup in the API's fixed ~1-mile radius.
category	string	no	"all-crime"	One of the 15 UK Police crime categories. all-crime returns every category.
month_from	string	no	"2026-06"	First month (inclusive), YYYY-MM. The API lags 1-2 months behind the calendar date.
month_to	string	no	"2026-06"	Last month (inclusive), YYYY-MM. Must be on/after month_from; span capped at 6 months.
max_results	integer	no	500	Hard cap on rows emitted. Each (point, month) pair still downloads the full month first.

Example input

{
  "locations": [{ "lat": 51.5074, "lng": -0.1278 }],
  "category": "all-crime",
  "month_from": "2026-06",
  "month_to": "2026-06",
  "max_results": 500
}

📤 Output

Field	Type	Notes
category	string	Crime category, e.g. burglary.
month	string	YYYY-MM the crime was recorded.
street_name	string	Nearest street name reported by the API.
latitude	float	Latitude of the reported location.
longitude	float	Longitude of the reported location.
outcome_status	string | null	Outcome category, or null if unresolved.
persistent_id	string | null	Persistent crime ID, or null when the API returns an empty string.
crime_id	integer	Numeric crime ID from the API.
search_lat	float	Latitude of the input point that produced this row.
search_lng	float	Longitude of the input point that produced this row.

Example output

{
  "category": "anti-social-behaviour",
  "month": "2026-06",
  "street_name": "On or near Bedford Street",
  "latitude": 51.510389,
  "longitude": -0.124157,
  "outcome_status": null,
  "persistent_id": null,
  "crime_id": 136061732,
  "search_lat": 51.5074,
  "search_lng": -0.1278
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you only pay for what lands in your dataset.

Event	Price	Trigger
Actor start	$0.20	Once per run, after input validation passes.
Result row	$0.0025	Per crime record pushed to the dataset.

Effective ~$2.70 per 1 000 rows. A default run (500 rows) costs about $1.45.

🚧 Limitations

• Bounded lookup tool: up to 5 points and a 6-month span per run, not an unbounded national or historical mirror.
• The API's ~1-mile search radius is fixed server-side and not configurable.
• The upstream API lags 1-2 months behind the calendar date; very recent months return zero rows for that pair rather than an error.
• No polygon-vertex search and no per-crime-id lookup in v1.

❓ FAQ

Does this need an API key or proxy? No. data.police.uk is a keyless UK government API with no observed anti-bot behaviour, so this Actor makes direct requests — no proxyConfiguration to configure.

Why did my run return zero rows? Either the point/month pair genuinely had no recorded crimes, or the month is too recent for the API's publish lag. Both cases finish as a successful run with a status message explaining what was searched — never a failed run.

Can I search more than 5 points or a longer date range? Not in v1 — this Actor is intentionally bounded to keep runs fast and predictably priced. Contact us if you need a wider range.

Where does the data come from? The UK Police public Street-Level Crimes API (data.police.uk), the same open dataset published by UK police forces.

📮 Your feedback

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