Austin Crime Data Scraper | APD Incident Reports
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Austin Crime Data Scraper | APD Incident Reports
Pull Austin Police Department crime incidents with location, offense type, date, and disposition. Filter by zip code, category, and date range. Built for journalists, neighborhood safety analysts, and researchers monitoring Texas public safety trends.
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🚔 Austin Crime Data Scraper
🚀 Export Austin Police Department crime incident reports in seconds. Filter 20+ years of incidents by date, crime type, council district, and family violence flag.
The Austin Crime Data Scraper queries the official City of Austin Open Data platform (data.austintexas.gov) for Austin Police Department crime incident reports. Every row returns the report number, UCR offense code, category, occurrence and reporting timestamps, location type, council district, sector, and clearance status.
Coverage spans every reportable incident classified under the Uniform Crime Reporting program, across all 10 council districts of Austin, Texas, with daily updates from APD.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Journalists, civic researchers, data scientists, GIS analysts, neighborhood associations, insurance underwriters | Crime mapping, neighborhood safety dashboards, trend analysis, academic research, public-safety reporting |
📋 What the Austin Crime Data Scraper does
- Queries the Austin Open Data Socrata API for APD crime reports
- Filters by occurrence date range, crime type substring, council district, family violence flag
- Returns every incident with UCR code and category description
- Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML in one click
💡 Why it matters: APD posts millions of incidents in a single dataset. Pulling a filtered slice via this scraper saves hours of CSV downloads and manual filtering.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: categoryDescription, censusBlockGroup, clearanceStatus, councilDistrict, crimeType, district, familyViolence, incidentReportNumber, locationType, occurrenceDate, reportDate, results, scrapedAt, sector, ucrCode. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: the source dataset is updated daily by APD. Some recent incidents may be redacted while investigations are open.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
- Open the Austin Crime Data Scraper
- Enter optional filters and maxItems
- Click Start
- Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the City of Austin or Austin Police Department. Only publicly available open data is collected.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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