🚔 Chicago Crime Data Scraper

🚀 Export Chicago Police Department incident reports with primary type, location, ward, district, arrest flag, and geo-coordinates.

Pull structured records from Chicago Crime Data — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/chicago-crime-data-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/chicago-crime-data-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), primaryType (string), district (string). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~chicago-crime-data-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

The Chicago Crime Data Scraper extracts incident records published by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) on the City of Chicago Open Data Portal. Every record includes case number, date, block, IUCR code, primary type, description, location type, arrest flag, beat, district, ward, and lat/lon - exported as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The scraper supports filtering by primary type (THEFT, BATTERY, ROBBERY, etc.) and district. Coverage spans every reported incident from 2001 through the present (millions of records).

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Journalists, researchers, public safety analysts, real estate professionals, insurance modelers, civic-tech	Crime trend reporting, neighborhood analysis, insurance underwriting, urban research, public-policy work

📋 What the Chicago Crime Data Scraper does

• Connects to the official Chicago Police Department Crime Data dataset.
• Paginates through every record matching your filters.
• Normalises each record into a flat, analysis-ready row.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML - directly from your Apify dataset.
• Refreshes on demand or on schedule (hourly, daily, weekly).

💡 Why it matters: stop copy-pasting from a portal that paginates 100 records at a time. One click, full dataset, your format.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: arrest, beat, block, case_number, community_area, date, description, district, domestic, fbi_code, id, imageUrl, iucr, latitude, location_description, longitude, primary_type, results, scrapedAt, sourceUrl, title, updated_on, url, ward, year. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit - no credit card required.
2. Open the Chicago Crime Data Scraper page in Apify Store and click Try for free.
3. Configure the input (see Input section above).
4. Click Start - the run will produce a downloadable dataset.
5. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or stream to your destination via integrations.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Chicago Police Department Crime Data. It only collects publicly available data published by the source. Always review the source's terms of use before commercial deployment.

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