🌉 San Francisco Crime Data Scraper

🚀 Export SFPD crime incident reports from DataSF in seconds. Filter by category, district, neighborhood, and date.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 13 fields per record · Millions of incidents · City of San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco Crime Data Scraper queries the DataSF Socrata API for SFPD incident reports from 2018 onward, returning category, subcategory, description, resolution, police district, neighborhood, and geocoordinates.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Journalists, urban researchers, neighborhood associations, civic developers	Hotspot mapping, neighborhood safety dashboards, longitudinal analysis, public-safety reporting

📋 What the San Francisco Police Crime Incidents Scraper does

• Queries the official San Francisco Police Crime Incidents data source
• Filters results with the input options below
• Returns clean, structured records
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML in one click

💡 Why it matters: consolidate a multi-step manual export into one button.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

{ "maxItems": 100, "startDate": "2025-01-01" }

{ "maxItems": 200, "category": "Assault", "neighborhood": "Mission" }

⚠️ Good to Know: the source data is published and updated by the upstream provider on their own schedule.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 undefined	string
🔢 undefined	string
📅 undefined	string
⏰ undefined	string
📆 undefined	string
🏷️ undefined	string
📚 undefined	string
📝 undefined	string
✅ undefined	string
🚓 undefined	string
🏙️ undefined	string
🌐 undefined	string
🌐 undefined	string
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

{
  "incidentNumber": "250613625",
  "incidentCategory": "Drug Offense",
  "policeDistrict": "Mission",
  "analysisNeighborhood": "Mission"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🆓 Free tier with 10-item preview
• ⚡ Direct API or HTML parsing, no waiting
• 🔍 Filters built in
• 📦 CSV, Excel, JSON, XML exports
• 🤝 No login or key required (uses public data)

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual Download	Custom Code
Filters	✅	⚠️	✅
Export formats	4	1	1
Setup time	seconds	hours	days
Schedule	✅	❌	⚠️

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Open the San Francisco Police Crime Incidents Scraper
3. Configure filters and maxItems
4. Click Start
5. Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Market research

Benchmark patterns across geographies and time.

Due diligence

Use authoritative public records as primary evidence.

Compliance and risk

Track regulatory and risk indicators on a schedule.

Reporting and analytics

Feed dashboards and BI pipelines with fresh data.

🔌 Automating San Francisco Police Crime Incidents Scraper

Connect to Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, S3, BigQuery to receive scheduled updates.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Academic and policy research.

Personal

Local interest dashboards.

Non-profit

Advocacy and transparency projects.

Experimentation

Public-data visualizations.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? A: DataSF Socrata API.

Q: API key required? A: No.

Q: Coverage? A: 2018 to present.

Q: Coordinates? A: Yes.

Q: Formats? A: CSV, Excel, JSON, XML.

Q: Frequency? A: Updated daily.

Q: Filter by district? A: Yes.

Q: Filter by neighborhood? A: Yes (analysis neighborhood).

Q: Schedule? A: Apify Scheduler.

Q: Official? A: No, independent.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Pipedream, Slack, Discord, Airbyte, Fivetran, GitHub, Google Drive, S3, BigQuery, Snowflake, Webhooks.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with San Francisco Police Crime Incidents. Only publicly available data is collected.