🗽 New York State Open Data Scraper

🚀 Export any New York State open dataset in seconds. Pull rows from 1,500+ public datasets covering driver licenses, tax records, health, education, transportation, and more. Filter with full-text search, column equality, and custom sort.

The New York State Open Data Scraper taps data.ny.gov, the official Socrata-powered open-data hub of New York State government. The Actor returns 4 structured fields per record: the dataset resource ID, the full row payload, a collection timestamp, and an error slot. The row payload preserves every column from the source dataset exactly as Socrata serves it, so downstream pipelines see no schema loss.

The catalog covers more than 1,500 public datasets across active driver licenses, tax rolls, public health surveillance, school report cards, MTA ridership, real-estate assessments, environmental sensor feeds, agency budgets, election results, vehicle inspections, and dozens of other domains. This Actor wraps Socrata SoQL so you can search, filter, and sort without touching the API directly.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Real-estate analysts, NY-focused journalists, civic-tech developers, urban planners, transportation researchers, public-health teams, transparency advocates	Property valuation comps, investigative reporting, civic-app data layers, urban analytics dashboards, transit ridership studies, license verification pipelines

📋 What the New York State Open Data Scraper does

A single workflow with rich filtering:

• 📊 Pull rows by resource ID. Pass a 4x4 Socrata identifier (e.g. 9a8c-vfzj Active Driver License Information).
• 🔎 Full-text search. Optional $q query across every column.
• 🧮 Column filters. Pass {"county": "BRONX", "operation_type": "Store"} for exact-match equality filters.
• 📐 Sort order. Order by any column (license_number DESC, city ASC).
• 🪪 Stable schema. Each record bundles the resource ID, the raw row, and a collection timestamp.

The Actor handles Socrata pagination automatically so you do not have to worry about offsets.

💡 Why it matters: New York State publishes one of the largest civic open-data catalogs in the U.S., yet most teams burn engineering hours writing a Socrata client per dataset. This Actor delivers consistent rows you can pipe straight into BI tools, notebooks, or civic-tech apps without per-dataset glue code.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: resourceId, row, scrapedAt. 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. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NY State Open Data Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste a resource ID from data.ny.gov, add optional filters or a search query, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the State of New York, any New York State agency, or Socrata/Tyler Technologies. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open civic data is collected.

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