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Boston 311 Scraper | Export Service Requests CSV/JSON

Boston 311 Scraper | Export Service Requests CSV/JSON

Scrape Boston 311 service requests with case ID, topic, status, full address, neighborhood, council district, geocoordinates, and resolution timestamps. Covers the live feed plus historical years 2017 to 2026. Filter by year or status. CSV, JSON, Excel.

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๐Ÿ™๏ธ Boston 311 Complaints Scraper

๐Ÿš€ Export Boston 311 service requests in seconds. Case status, addresses, neighborhoods, and timestamps โ€” ready for CSV, Excel, or JSON.

The Boston 311 Complaints Scraper pulls service requests from Boston's open data portal (data.boston.gov). Each record covers one constituent report โ€” potholes, street lights, missed trash pickup, graffiti โ€” with full address, neighborhood, council district, assigned department, status, and resolution timestamps.

Live dataset plus archives back to 2017. Hundreds of thousands of records per year, geocoded.

Target AudienceUse Cases
Urban researchersTrack service equity across neighborhoods
Civic journalistsSpot trends in response times by district
Real estate analystsSurface complaint density by ZIP code
Government affairsBenchmark city department performance

๐Ÿ“‹ What the Boston 311 Scraper does

  • Pulls live and historical 311 service requests
  • Filters by year, case status, and free-text query
  • Returns case ID, topic, status, full address, geocoordinates, and timestamps
  • Exports CSV, Excel, JSON, XML

๐Ÿ’ก Why it matters: 311 data is the highest-resolution civic signal a city emits. This scraper makes it one click away.

๐Ÿ“Š Data fields

Each record includes: assignedDepartment, assignedTeam, caseId, caseStatus, caseTopic, closeDate, closureComments, closureReason, onTime, openDate, reportSource, results, serviceName, targetCloseDate, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

โš ๏ธ Good to Know: the live current resource updates every few minutes. Historical year files are snapshots.

๐Ÿš€ How to use

  1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
  2. Open the actor and fill the input
  3. Run and download CSV/JSON
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๐Ÿ’ก Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more open-data scrapers.

Disclaimer: This actor scrapes only publicly available data from data.boston.gov, an open-data portal operated by the City of Boston. Use the data in accordance with the source's terms.

๐Ÿ†˜ 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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